Scilla
Scilla is a town and comune in Calabria, Italy, administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. It is the traditional site of the sea monster Scylla of Greek mythology.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,180 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Scilla, Calabria”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castello Ruffo di Scilla and Scilla Lighthouse.
Scilla Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Jacopo Werther, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scilla Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in Calabria just opposite of Capo Peloro Lighthouse which is on the Sicilian coast; both lighthouses direct the ships from the north into the Strait of Messina.
Scilla railway halt
Railway stop
Photo: Jacopo Werther, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scilla railway halt is a railway stop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cannitello and Campo Calabro.
Cannitello
Hamlet
Photo: Villese92, Public domain.
Cannitello is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km west of Scilla.
Campo Calabro
Village
Photo: Gino il Pio, Public domain.
Campo Calabro is a municipality in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the region of Calabria in Italy, located about 110 kilometres southwest of Catanzaro and about 12 kilometres north of Reggio Calabria. Campo Calabro is situated 6 km southwest of Scilla.
Torre Faro
Suburb
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Torre Faro is a frazione of the comune of Messina in the Province of Messina, Sicily, southern Italy. It is a seaside village near the Ganzirri Lake and on its territory it hosts the Pylons of Messina. Torre Faro is situated 7 km west of Scilla.
Scilla
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Scilla, Province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
38.25067° or 38° 15′ 2″ northLongitude
15.71899° or 15° 43′ 8″ eastPopulation
5,180Elevation
72 metres (236 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT SLLOpen location code
8FCQ7P29+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 67275287OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Scilla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ستشيلا”
- Armenian: “Շիլլա”
- Basque: “Scilla”
- Breton: “Scilla”
- Bulgarian: “Шила”
- Catalan: “Scilla”
- Cebuano: “Scilla”
- Central Bikol: “Scilla, Italya”
- Central Bikol: “Scilla”
- Chechen: “Шилла”
- Chinese: “Scilla”
- Chinese: “希拉”
- Dimli (individual language): “Scilla, İtalya”
- Dutch: “Scilla”
- Esperanto: “Scilla”
- Finnish: “Scilla”
- French: “Scilla”
- German: “Scilla”
- Greek: “Σκύλλα της Μεσσήνης”
- Hebrew: “שילה”
- Hungarian: “Scilla”
- Interlingua: “Scilla”
- Irish: “Scilla”
- Italian: “Scilla”
- Japanese: “シッラ”
- Kazakh: “Шилла”
- Kurdish: “Scilla, Calabria”
- Kurdish: “Scilla”
- Ladin: “Scilla”
- Latin: “Scylleum”
- Lombard: “Scilla”
- Malay: “Scilla, Calabria”
- Malay: “Scilla”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Scilla”
- Neapolitan: “Scilla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Scilla”
- Persian: “شیلا”
- Piemontese: “Scilla”
- Polish: “Scilla”
- Portuguese: “Scilla”
- Romanian: “Scilla”
- Russian: “Шилла”
- Serbian: “Scilla”
- Serbian: “Шила”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Scilla, Reggio Calabria”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Scilla”
- Sicilian: “U Scigghiu”
- Slovenian: “Scilla, Kalabrija”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیلا (کالابریا)”
- South Azerbaijani: “شیلا”
- Spanish: “Scilla”
- Swedish: “Scilla”
- Tagalog: “Scilla, Calabria”
- Tagalog: “Scilla”
- Tatar: “Шилла”
- Turkish: “Scilla, Calabria”
- Turkish: “Scilla”
- Ukrainian: “Шилла”
- Uzbek: “Scilla”
- Venetian: “Scilla”
- Volapük: “Scilla”
- Waray (Philippines): “Scilla, Italy”
- Welsh: “Scilla”
- “Scilla”
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