The Holy Monastery of Varlaam was my favorite among those six monasteries in Meteora.
The Holy Monastery of Varlaam is the second biggest monastery of Meteora.
Located very close to Great Meteoro Monastery, it was founded in the mid 14th century by a monk named Varlaam.
Varlaam managed to climb on the cliff around 1350 and followed by a few other monks he was able
to establish the monastery. Decades later in the early 15th century, after Varlaam died, the cliff was abandoned by the rest of the monks.
In the early 16th century two brothers from Ioannina, the priest-monks Theophanes and Nectarios, the so-called Apsarades decided to reactivate the abandoned monastery of Varlaam.
They settled on the cliff spending many years building a new chapel dedicated to “All Saints” in 1541.