Meteora Monasteries Defy Logic and Inspire Awe

Meteora was virtually unknown until 1981 when 007, as in Bond, James Bond, is left hanging from a rope off a cliff.  Bond has to climb up the face while the bad guy chips away at  anchors in the rock.  Who survives?  The bad guy or 007?

In the climactic scene at the end of For Your Eyes Only, Bond has to steal back the Automatic Targeting Attack Communicamcguffin from “St. Cyril’s.” The fictional St. Cyril’s is the real life Monastery of the Holy Trinity, the most amazing real-world Bond villain lair anywhere.

Remember these monasteries were built hundreds of years ago without cranes, roads, or even stairs defying logic and inspiring awe.