Fortress
Fort Istibey
🇬🇷 Greece
Fort Istimpei (Greek: Οχυρό Ιστίμπεη) is a fortress on Mount Beles, Central Macedonia, on Greece's northern border with Bulgaria, that was built to help defend Greece during World War II.
It became part of the fortifications of the Metaxas Line, a chain of fortifications along the Greek-Bulgarian border that was built in the 1930s and named after Ioannis Metaxas, then Prime Minister of Greece.
It is situated 16 km north of the village of Neo Petritsi at an altitude of 1,339 meters.
Text adapted from “Fort Istimpei” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Istibey ranks #3,281 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #52 of the 87 mapped in Greece. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.
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