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- The Eyrie -- Greece Swinging across the map again, South of The North is the Vale of Arryn, home of the Eyrie. This astounding castle in the sky is largely computer graphics and sets, but it was inspired by a real place. To see the "real' Eyrie you'll have to travel to the middle of Greece... which I did and wrote all about already.
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May 23, 2019 · A UNESCO World Heritage site, Meteora is home to many monasteries balancing on top of cliffs, and its sheer magic is why it served as the real inspiration for the Eyrie in ‘Game of Thrones.’
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Bona-fide Game of Thrones fans will surely remember that the Eyrie is the ancestral seat of House Arryn, Lords of the Vale and Wardens of the East. The Eyrie was first shown in season 1; when Catelyn Tully abducts Tyrion and takes him to the Eyrie’s sky cells, built on the castle side with one open side and a sloping floor. Real Game of Thrones afi...
The Eyrie is located in the Vale of Arryn, in the eastern part of Westeros, high up on a slender mountain. It can only be reached through a narrow path and causeway lined by battlements and guarded by archers. This makes the Eyrie impregnable to any kind of attack not involving dragons, reason why the Eyrie was never taken in over a thousand years,...
In 1344, a monk called Athanasios set off to Meteora with a group of followers, wanting to build their very own Eyrie. The area had been inhabited by hermits for at least for hundred years, who sought shelter in the numerous hollows and caves high up on the rock pillars. In that period, the supremacy of the Byzantine Empire was weakening and monast...
Nowadays, Meteora is one of Greece’s prettiest and most underrated tourist attractions. It’s a paradise for hikers, with several walking trails joining the monasteries and offering stunning views over the valley and the rock pillars. It’s incredible to imagine that monks in the 14th century built the monasteries only with the aid of rudimentary roc...
Yet, despite being stunningly beautiful, Meteora is far from becoming another Dubrovnik. The truth is, Game of Thrones Eryie wasn’t actually filmed here. It was chosen as a possible location for the Eyrie scenes in season 1. However, the notoriously slow Greek bureaucracy, alongside the additional series of paperwork required from UNESCO, made it i...
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Jul 3, 2014 · Meteora's role in "Game of Thrones" as "the Eyrie" might just turn it into a destination for fans making a pilgrimage to the show's filming locations. The site was also featured in the 1981 James Bond film, "For Your Eyes Only."
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- The War of the Roses. Stark? York? Lannister? Lancaster? Come on people! Surely you can see the connection? Taking place between 1455 and 1485, The War of the Roses was a series of bloody battles over the British throne by rival royal families.
- Hadrian's Wall. George R. R. Martin (GRRM) has admitted that he came up with his giant ice wall creation (imaginatively called ‘The Wall’) while visiting Hadrian's Wall near the Scottish border with England.
- The Roman Empire. But it’s not just that great big wall the Romans constructed that GRRM was inspired by. Various elements of the Roman Empire have seeped into the world of Game of Thrones.
- The Black Dinner. One of the most notorious events in GoT history is the brutal, gruesome ‘Red Wedding’ where King Robb Stark, his wife, Queen Talisa, his mother, Lady Catelyn and many many more were murdered during the marriage of Edmure Tully to Roslin Frey.
An attacker must either build siege weapons (impractical against the Eyrie) or starve out the occupants. As for strategic importance to people trying to conquer the realm, it doesn't have much. That's why nobody has bothered attacking it.
It is also said that Ser Arryn turned into a falcon, flew to the top of the mountain to claim it, and then built the Eyrie right then and there. In reality, they probably dug the mountain itself out, and built scaffolds to bring up whatever other stone they needed from Sky.
The Eyrie is an ancient castle and seat of House Arryn, one of the oldest lines of Andal nobility, within the Vale of Arryn. It is situated in the Mountains of the Moon on a shoulder of the peak known as the Giant's Lance, several thousand feet above the valley below.
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