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Rethymno (or Rethymnon) (Greek Ρέθυμνο), a city of approximately 30.000 people, is the capital of the prefecture of the same name in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity. In the Minoan Period it was called Rithymna. Even if it has never been a big center it was strong enough to publish its own coins. One of these coins is today depicted as the crest of the town with two dolphins in a circle.
Rethymno started growing again when the Venetian conquerors of the island wanted to have an intermediate commercial station between Heraklion and Chania. Today's old town (palia poli) is almost entirely built by Venetians.
It has a Venetian castle called the Fortetza which is the one of the best standing castles in Greece. Other monuments include the Neratze mosque (St. Katherine's catholic church), the Great Gate (megali porta, Porta Guerra), the Piazza Rimondi (Rimmondi square) etc.
Today its main income is tourism, and it also is the base of the Philosophical school of the University of Crete. The countryside of the prefecture is also based economically on agriculture and herding. The village of Anogia is reported to have the highest fertility rate of the EU. Two other notable towns in the Rethymno prefecture are Spili and Agia Galini.
Division of the municipality of Rethymno (Rethymni), population 31687 (in 2001 )
- Rethymno / Δ.δ. Ρεθύμνης [ 28987 ]
- Rethymno / το Ρέθυμνο [ 27868 ]
- Agia Eirini / η Αγία Ειρήνη [ 49 ]
- Anogeia / τα Ανώγεια [ 89 ]
- Gallos / ο Γάλλος [ 430 ]
- Giannoudion / το Γιαννούδιον [ 96 ]
- Megalo Metochi / το Μεγάλο Μετόχι [ 29 ]
- Mikro Metochi / το Μικρό Μετόχι [ 188 ]
- Xiron Chorion / το Ξηρόν Χωρίον [ 131 ]
- Tria Monastiria / τα Τρία Μοναστήρια [ 107 ]
- Armenoi / Δ.δ. Αρμένων [ 588 ]
- Armenoi / οι Αρμένοι [ 313 ]
- Agios Georgios / ο Άγιος Γεώργιος [ 78 ]
- Somatas / ο Σωματάς [ 124 ]
- Foteinos / ο Φωτεινός [ 73 ]
- Goulediana / Δ.δ. Γουλεδιανών [ 135 ]
- Goulediana / τα Γουλεδιανά [ 103 ]
- Geni / η Γενή [ 32 ]
- Kare / Δ.δ. Καρές [ 190 ]
- Kare / η Καρέ [ 79 ]
- Ampelakion / το Αμπελάκιον [ 111 ]
- Kastellos / Δ.δ. Καστέλλου -- ο Κάστελλος [ 97 ]
- Koumoi / Δ.δ. Κούμων -- οι Κούμοι [ 173 ]
- Maroulas / Δ.δ. Μαρουλά [ 218 ]
- Maroulas / ο Μαρουλάς [ 192 ]
- Dilofo / το Δίλοφο [ 26 ]
- Oros / Δ.δ. Όρους -- το Όρος [ 81 ]
- Prasies / Δ.δ. Πρασιών -- οι Πρασιές [ 115 ]
- Roussospition / Δ.δ. Ρουσσοσπιτίου -- το Ρουσσοσπίτιον [ 374 ]
- Sellion / Δ.δ. Σελλίου [ 247 ]
- Sellion / το Σελλίον [ 159 ]
- Myrthios / η Μύρθιος [ 88 ]
- Chromonastirion / Δ.δ. Χρομοναστηρίου [ 482 ]
- Chromonastirion / το Χρομοναστήριον [ 358 ]
- Kapediana / τα Καπεδιανά [ 28 ]
- Myloi / οι Μύλοι [ 39 ]
- Prinedes / οι Πρινέδες [ 57 ]
Rethymno Carnival 2007
Persons from Rethymno
- Kallirroi Siganou – Parren (Καλλιρρόη Σιγανού – Παρρέν) (Image) (1859 Platania Amariou /Rethymno – 16.1.1940 Athens). A pioneer of feminism in modern Greece
- Pantelis Prevelakis (Παντελής Πρεβελάκης ) (18.2.1909 Rethymno– 15.3.1986 Athens )
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