Kalabaka

Kalabaka is a city and a municipality in the Trikala nearby unit, part of Thessaly in Greece. The populace turned into 21,991 at the 2011 census, of which 8,330 inside the city right. The Meteora monasteries are positioned within the town. Kalabaka is the northwestern terminal of the vintage Thessaly Railways, now part of OSE. In 1995, an historic tomb was observed in Kalabaka dating from the twentieth century BC. A Greek inscription on the wall of one of the town’s oldest church buildings testifies to the lifestyles of an historic Greek settlement beneath the name Aiginion.

In the tenth century AD, it changed into known as Stagoi, a Byzantine fortress and bishopric. Of its medieval monuments, best the cathedral, the Church of the Dormition, survives. It changed into a late eleventh- or early 12th-century constructing, built at the remains of an earlier, late antique church. Relics of an historic Greek temple probable of god Apollo – had been integrated inside the wall of the town’s oldest and most famend church, committed to Virgin Mary.