Aidone
Aidone is a hilltop town in the province of Enna, in the heart of Sicily. Overlooking lush valleys and mountains, this quiet medieval town is best known as the modern gateway to the ancient Greek city of Morgantina, one of Sicily’s most important archaeological sites.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Morgantia07, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 4,180 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Aidungh, Dadungh”
- Neighbors: Enna and Piazza Armerina
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Aidone and Maria Santissima delle Grazie.
Archaeological Museum of Aidone
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Archaeological Museum of Aidone is a regional museum in Aidone in the province of Enna, Sicily. It is housed in a former Capuchin convent dedicated to Saint Francis.
Maria Santissima delle Grazie
Church
Photo: Morgantia07, Public domain.
Maria Santissima delle Grazie is a church.
Morgantina
Park
Photo: Morgantia07, Public domain.
Morgantina is an archaeological site in east central Sicily, southern Italy. It is sixty kilometres from the coast of the Ionian Sea, in the province of Enna. Morgantina is situated 3 km northeast of Aidone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Piazza Armerina.
Piazza Armerina
Photo: Mattis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piazza Armerina is a historic town in the heart of Sicily, best known for the nearby Villa Romana del Casale, a UNESCO World Heritage Site famed for its extensive Roman mosaics.
Aidone
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Aidone, Enna, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.41542° or 37° 24′ 56″ northLongitude
14.44528° or 14° 26′ 43″ eastPopulation
4,180Elevation
800 metres (2,625 feet)Open location code
8F9PCC8W+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 67254867OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2525761Wikidata ID
Q56196
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Aidone” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أيدوني”
- Armenian: “Այդոնե”
- Basque: “Aidone”
- Breton: “Aidone”
- Bulgarian: “Айдоне”
- Catalan: “Aidone”
- Cebuano: “Aidone”
- Chechen: “Айдоне”
- Chinese: “Aidone”
- Chinese: “艾多内”
- Czech: “Aidone”
- Dutch: “Aidone”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ايدونى”
- Esperanto: “Aidone”
- French: “Aidone”
- Georgian: “აიდონე”
- German: “Aidone”
- Hungarian: “Aidone”
- Interlingua: “Aidone”
- Irish: “Aidone”
- Italian: “Aidone”
- Japanese: “アイドーネ”
- Kazakh: “Айдоне”
- Kurdish: “Aidone”
- Ladin: “Aidone”
- Latin: “Aydonum”
- Lombard: “Aidungh”
- Malay: “Aidone”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aidone”
- Neapolitan: “Aidone”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aidone”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Aidone”
- Persian: “ایدان”
- Piemontese: “Aidone”
- Polish: “Aidone”
- Portuguese: “Aidone”
- Romanian: “Aidone”
- Russian: “Айдоне”
- Sardinian: “Aidone”
- Scots: “Aidone”
- Serbian: “Aidone”
- Serbian: “Аидоне”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aidone, Enna”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Aidone”
- Sicilian: “Aidoni”
- Sicilian: “Aiduni”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایدان”
- Spanish: “Aidone”
- Swedish: “Aidone”
- Tagalog: “Aidone”
- Tatar: “Айдоне”
- Turkish: “Aidone”
- Ukrainian: “Айдоне”
- Uzbek: “Aidone”
- Venetian: “Aidone”
- Volapük: “Aidone”
- Waray (Philippines): “Aidone”
- “Aidone”
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