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It is a beautiful, densely vegetated valley that starts from the west in the town of Rentina on Lake Volvi and ends in the bay of Strimonikos.
Rentina is a village and a former municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it has been a municipal unit within the municipality of Volvi. Its population was 4,874 in 2021. The municipal unit has an area of 128.770 km2. The seat of the (former) municipality was in Stavros. The village Rentina, part of the community Volvi, lies at the eastern end of Lake Volvi.
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A strategically important castle dating from the 4th century AD. was built on a hill in a very beautiful landscape. Although it is a large castle and is very close to a busy road, it is not easy to see. The fort of Rentina is reasonably well preserved, as are the impressive remains of a settlement. Due to its strategic location, it has a very varied history with Byzantine, Frankish, Serbian and Turkish lords.
The ruins of the 15th-century tower are located in the courtyard of the church of the village Vrasna.
The approximately 11-km-long sandy beach begins in the south at the seaside resort of Stavros then Nea Vrasna, Asprovalta, Riviera to Serraiki Akti in the north. The beach is about 200 m wide, so that even in the high season it is never really crowded tight. Areas with beach bars, sun loungers and umbrellas alternate with empty beach sections. All the usual water sports typical in tourist resorts are offered, as are many restaurants, cafes, bars along the beach.
The fortress was most likely a station on Via Egnatia called Pennana. The station must have been used long after the Romans, possibly long after the Ottoman conquest.
Birthplace of Aristotle, the greatest philosopher of antiquity and the teacher of Alexander the Great.The city was built around 655 BC. founded by colonists from Andros. After the Persian Wars, it joined in 424 BC. the Peloponnesian War as an ally of the Spartans against Athens. Later, the city joined the Chalkidian League and was 348 BC. conquered by King Philip II. Excavations show the early-classicistic fortifications preserved in very good condition, several public buildings in the Agora (Classicist Stoa), an archaic sanctuary, the Thesmophorion, private houses from the Classical and Hellenistic period and the city's waterworks
North of Asprovalta are a number of other beautiful, sometimes barely visited beaches in the places Logkari, Akti Neon Kerdilion, Sikia. Because of the good parking facilities, they are popular with motorhome drivers