Varlaam Monastery | Meteora | Greece | 4K

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Wiki: The Varlaam Monastery or Barlaam Monastery in Meteora is one of four active male monasteries in the Meteora monastery complex in Greece. It is the second largest monastery in the monastic community.
The monastery was founded in 1517 by Theophanis and Nektarios Apsaradas on the site of an earlier monastery that was established by an ascetic anchorite named Varlaam. In 1350, Varlaam climbed to the top of the pinnacle where he established a cell for himself and build three small chapels and a water tank. After his death the site was abandoned as he was a solitary.
The hieromonks Theophanis and Nektarios Apsaradas, who were from Ioannina, re-occupied the monastery site two hundred years later. They renovated Varlaam's small chapel, the Parekklesion of the Three dedicated to the Three Bishops (St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory the Theologian, and St. John Chrysostom). Additional renovation was done in 1627 and frescos were painted in 1637.
Over a period of twenty-two years using a tower and a rope and pulley system with a basket they hoisted the materials needed for construction of their monastery. After all the materials were in place, they built the main monastery church, the katholikon dedicated to All Saints, in twenty days.
The monastery was occupied continuously throughout the sixteenth century and into the seventeenth after which it began to decline. It was only in early nineteenth century that steps were first cut in the rock to get the top of the pinnacle.
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La musique n'est pas en rapport avec le lieu. Que comprend-on de Varlaam dans cette vidéo ?

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Désolé, ce n'est pas une vidéo religieuse. De plus, je ne gagne pas d'argent avec ces vidéos et mon choix de musique est très limité. Merci d'avoir regardé quand même!

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@@RzPProductionsRzP Il ne s'agit pas de faire une vidéo religieuse ! Mais de donner quelques éléments de contexte. D'autre part, si ton choix de musique est limité, autant proposer un audio "naturel" : le bruit du vent, des oiseaux, de la respiration de celui qui monte sur le site. Mais ton intention était intéressante. Bon courage pour les suivantes !