Meteora, Greece the amazing clifftop monasteries In the northwest corner of Thessaly, the wide bed of the Pinios River emerges from themighty canyons of the Eastern Pindus Mountains that plummet abruptly onto the Thassalianplain. Here, in the shadow of the mountains and just beyond the town of Kalampaka, massivegray colored pinnacles rise towards the sky. It is a strange but breathtaking landscapethat has been sculpted by wind a adventurebyzantinegrandgreecehikingkalambakakalampakameteorameteoronmonasteryorthodoxplacethessalyunusual with greecemeteora