Rentina 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. It was continuously inhabited from the most ancient times until the first years of Ottoman rule, when it was abandoned because its strategic importance had by then declined and the Turks chose the neighbouring Lake Volvi as their place of settlement.

Machine-translated from “Κάστρο της Ρεντίνας” on the Greek Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rentina Castle ranks #6,930 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #91 of the 134 mapped in Greece. The nearest day-trip guide is Thessaloniki, 58 km away. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.

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