🇬🇷 Greece
7 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Fortress of Vardari, 1 km south-west of the city centre; the most famous is White Tower of Thessaloniki — #184 of 7,738 worldwide — 2 km south-east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Castle of Moglena, founded c. 950.
Every one of them stands in Greece — the country page shows the full national picture.
2 km south-east · Castle · #184 worldwide
The White Tower of Thessaloniki is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedonia in…
2 km east · Fortress
The Heptapyrgion, modern Eptapyrgio, also popularly known by its Ottoman Turkish name Yedi Kule, is a Byzantine and Ottoman-era fortress situated on…
1 km south-west · Fortress
The Fortress of Vardari, also known as Top-Hane or Tabak-Hane, on account of the tanneries that were established in its area, stands in the western…
58 km east · Castle
Rentina Castle stands on the summit of a hill, beside the Richeios river, at the western entrance of the Rentina Gorge, or Macedonian Tempe.
76 km south · Castle
The Platamon Castle, an important part of the history of Pieria, is a Crusader castle in Macedonia, Greece and is located southeast of Mount Olympus,…
82 km north · Fortress
Fort Istimpei is a fortress on Mount Beles, Central Macedonia, on Greece's northern border with Bulgaria, that was built to help defend Greece during…
78 km north-west · Ruin
The Castle of Moglena is a medieval fortress whose ruins lie in the present-day region of Macedonia, Greece, in Almopia, right next to the village of…
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q17151.
The Castlemap atlas maps 7 landmarks (3 castles · 3 fortresses · 1 ruin) within 100 km of the centre of Thessaloniki, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Fortress of Vardari, a fortress 1 km south-west of the city centre.
White Tower of Thessaloniki, ranked #184 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 2 km south-east from Thessaloniki.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Castle of Moglena, founded c. 950 — 78 km north-west. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Skopje (196 km) · Ioannina (208 km) · Chalkída (249 km) · Prizren (254 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
