Kastelos Fort at Varipetro

Kastelos Hill is located 8 km west of the city of Chania and 1.5 km east of the village Varipetro of the province Kydonia, very close to the monastery of Transfiguration at Varypetro . It was a walled citadel (acropolis) at an altitude of 250m.

The hill is considered to have been inhabited since the Minoan Era, to the medieval Times. The largest part of the walls date back to the Byzantine period and are preserved in all their length and almost all their height.

At the south and west sides they complement the steep natural fortification, while in we see a double row of walls with bastions. At the lower part we still discern traces of the older fortifications.

Building traces are dispersed all over the citadel. The buildings were organized in clusters and many of them were carved into the rock.

During the excavations, buildings of Hellenistic and Roman periods were identified, while near the monastery of Agia Kyriaki a part of a Late Archaic cemetery with burials in jars was revealed. Transfiguration Monastery at Kastelos 0.4 km Agia Kyriaki monastery at Varypetro 0.9 km Church of Saint George at Garipas 2 km Church of Saints Panteleimon and Demetrius in Garipas 2.2 km Saint George Harodias monastery at Perivolia 2.9 km Therisso Gorge 3.7 km Agia Triada Sinai monastery 3.8 km Cyclamen Gorge at Aletrouvari 3.9 km Eleftherios Venizelos House at Mournies 4.1 km Saint Eleftherios monastery at Mournies 4.1 km Keramia War Collection 4.4 km Sarakinasmonastery (Megisti Lavra dependency) 4.5 km Lake Ayia 4.7 km Ayia Early Christian Basilica 5.3 km Keritis Bridge 5.5 km Saint Andrew church at Malaxa 5.7 km Therisso National Resistance Museum 5.8 km Church of Saint George at Therisso 5.8 km Museum - Headquarters in Therisso 5.9 km Chrysopigi Monastery 5.9 km