It was originally constructed in 1475 but remodelled and expanded throughout the late 17 th and early 18 th centuries with a small group of Byzantine hermits inhabiting the rock as early as the eleventh century. The Agia Triada, or Holy Trinity, was once part of a complex of 24 monasteries belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church. Dating from the 14 th and 15 th centuries, they are all perched on top of natural sandstone rock pillars on the Thessaly plain. These scenes here filmed at the Agia Triada Monastery in Greece, which is one of six remaining “Meteora” (suspended in air) monasteries. The monastery – the fictional St Cyril’s – is set atop a mountain and protected from attack thanks to the sheer rock face, which Bond is forced to climb before gaining control of the lift basket and letting the remainder of his team up the easy way. For the finale of For Your Eyes Only (1981) – the twelfth James Bond film and the fourth to star Roger Moore – Melina Havelock and Colombo assist 007 to gain access to an abandoned Greek monastery where Kristatos plans to hand over the top secret ATAC over to KGB chief General Gogol.
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