The following monasteries can be visited and are located nearby the road circuiting Meteora. Clockwise you'll find:

• Agiou Nikolaou monastery (St. Nickolas Anapausas)
• Agias Varvaras Rousanou monastery (St. Barbara)
• Varlaam monastery
• Megalou Meteorou monastery (Great Meteoron)
• Agias Triados monastery (Holy Trinity)
• Agiou Stefanou monastery (St. Stephen, the only monastery for women)

An entrance fee is expected by some monasteries which might be about € 2. Inexpensive, mass produced icons may be purchased in the monasteries for as little as € 1. They do not have the variety of the factories, however.

The monasteries were not originally built for tourism. Tourism, essential to the monasteries survival, has also destroyed their character. They are no longer contemplative.