Hiking in Meteora

From the era of the first monastic communities in Meteora, a network of communication paths was gradually opened. The steep terrain advocated the preservation of a large part of the old trails, as the newer access roads to the monasteries eventyaly went around the Meteora towers.

These old trails, combined with some rural dirt roads, can be used to create a variety of hiking routes, starting from nodal points, such as Kalambaka or the monasteries. However, despite the high aesthetic value of the area, there is not a common marking system for this hiking grid, apart from some signage serving the mountain bike and mountain running courses.

The most popular routes are the ones below:

1. Doubiani-Ypapandi monastery
2. Doubiani-Varlaam monastery glebe
3. Kalambaka-Agia Triada Monastery
4. Kalambaka-Megalo Meteoro Monastery
5. Kalambaka-Agios Stefanos monastery
6. Kastraki-Varlaam monastery
7. Ypapandi monastery-Varlaam monastery
8. Short loop around Megalo Meteoro monastery
9. Roussanou monastery loop trail
10. Kalambaka-Vlachava road
11. Megalo Meteoro monastery-Vlachava road
12. Ypapandi monastery-Vlachava road
13. Vlachava road-Varlaam monastery glebe
14. Kamambaka-Kastraki
15. Kalambaka connecting trail
16. Meteora great loop

Text and photographs: T. Adamakopoulos