The Rentina Gorge ( el, Στενά της Ρεντίνας) or Macedonian Tempe (Greek: Μακεδονικά Τέμπη) is a gorge in
Rentina, Thessaloniki
Rentina ( el, Ρεντίνα) 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 5,821 in 2 ...
,
Macedonia,
Greece
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, named after
Tempe (mod. pronunciation: "Tembi"), the long strip of gorges, hills and rivers in Thessaly.
The Rentina Gorge, located between
Mount Cholomon
Cholomon or Cholomondas ( el, Χολομών, Χολομώντας, sometimes transliterated as ''Holomontas'') is a mountain in Central Macedonia, Greece, that covers almost all of central and east Chalkidiki. The ancient Greeks called the mounta ...
and the
Kerdylia mountains, lies just outside the major city of
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...
and is a popular tourist spot during
autumn
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, when the leaves change colour, and
summer
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, when many people
picnic
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there.
Canyons and gorges of Greece
Macedonia (Greece)
Landforms of Thessaloniki (regional unit)
Landforms of Central Macedonia
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