Meteora, the Rousanou Monastery

Rousanou Monastery is a Christian Orthodox monastery. It is one of the six still active Monasteries in Meteora, which since 1988 are included in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites . It is not known why it was named Rousanou. The most probable theory is that it took its name from the first inhabitant of the rock or the owner of the first temple. The rock was known as Rousanos rock since the beginning of the 16th century, when the owners Joasaph and Maximos settled, who rebuilt the then ruined monastery. In 1545 they rebuilt the katholikon, which is dedicated to the Transfiguration of the Savior. The monastery declined in the 19th century and became the hermitage of Barlaam Monastery. It was restored in the 1980s and today functions as a nunnery.

The Monastery occupies the entire plateau at the top of the rock where it is located. It is three-storey, with the katholikon, the archontariki and cells on the ground floor. It has cells and utility rooms on the other floors. The access to the monastery is made with a staircase and two bridges, which were built in 1930 on the site of an older wooden bridge.

Date: 1970 Source Wikipedia