Paranesti (Greek: Παρανέστι, romanized: Paranésti) is a municipality in the Rhodope Mountains of northeastern Drama regional unit, Greece.

It consists of two municipal units: Paranesti and Nikoforos.

The settlement has a railway station on the Thessaloniki–Alexandroupoli Line[2] Paranesti lies on the Greek National Road 14 (Drama to Xanthi).

A rough unpaved (gravel and dirt) road connects Paranesti directly with the Bulgarian village of Gorna Arda and thus to the paved Bulgarian road network of Smolyan Province.

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