Rocca di Papa
Rocca di Papa is a small town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. It is one of the Castelli Romani about 25 kilometres southeast of Rome on the Alban Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,000 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Neighbors: Castel Gandolfo, Rocca Priora, and Velletri
Places of Interest
Highlights include Geophysical Museum, Rocca di Papa and Monte Cavo.
Monte Cavo
Peak
Photo: NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monte Cavo, or less often, "Monte Albano," is the second highest mountain of the complex of the Alban Hills, near Rome, Italy. An old volcano extinguished around 10,000 years ago, it lies about 20 km from the sea, in the territory of the comune of Rocca di Papa.
Lake Albano
Lake
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Lake Albano is a small volcanic crater lake in the Alban Hills of Lazio, at the foot of Monte Cavo, 20 km southeast of Rome. Castel Gandolfo, overlooking the lake, is the site of the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo. Lake Albano is situated 3½ km southwest of Rocca di Papa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marino and Nemi.
Marino
Town
Photo: Deblu68, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marino is an Italian comune with 46,676 inhabitants located in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in Lazio. Situated south of the capital, on the Alban Hills in the area of the Roman Castles, nestled between Rocca di Papa, Castel Gandolfo, and… Marino is situated 4½ km west of Rocca di Papa.
Nemi
Village
Photo: New2022, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nemi is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, in the Alban Hills overlooking Lake Nemi, a volcanic crater lake. It is 6 kilometres northwest of Velletri and about 30 kilometres southeast of Rome. Nemi is situated 4½ km south of Rocca di Papa.
Grottaferrata
Town
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Grottaferrata is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, situated on the lower slopes of the Alban Hills, 20 kilometres southeast of Rome. It has grown up around the Abbey of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata, founded in 1004. Grottaferrata is situated 4½ km northwest of Rocca di Papa.
Rocca di Papa
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Rocca di Papa, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.76076° or 41° 45′ 39″ northLongitude
12.70961° or 12° 42′ 35″ eastPopulation
17,000Elevation
680 metres (2,231 feet)Open location code
8FHJQP65+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 72962821OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3169181Wikidata ID
Q243228
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rocca di Papa” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rocca di Papa”
- Arabic: “روكا دي بابا”
- Aragonese: “Rocca di Papa”
- Armenian: “Ռոկա դի Պապա”
- Armenian: “Ռոկա-դի-Պապա”
- Asturian: “Rocca di Papa”
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- Bulgarian: “Рока ди Папа”
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- Chechen: “Рокка-ди-Папа”
- Chinese: “Rocca di Papa”
- Chinese: “罗卡迪帕帕”
- Chinese: “羅卡迪帕帕”
- Corsican: “Rocca di Papa”
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- German: “Rocca di Papa”
- Greek: “Ρόκκα ντι Πάπα”
- Hungarian: “Rocca di Papa”
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- Irish: “Rocca di Papa”
- Italian: “Rocca di Papa”
- Japanese: “ロッカ・ディ・パーパ”
- Kazakh: “Рокка-ди-Папа”
- Kongo: “Rocca di Papa”
- Korean: “로카디파파”
- Kurdish: “Rocca di Papa”
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- Latin: “Rocha de Papa”
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- Norwegian: “Rocca di Papa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rocca di Papa”
- Persian: “روکا دی پاپا”
- Piemontese: “Rocca di Papa”
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- Portuguese: “Rocca di Papa”
- Romanian: “Rocca di Papa”
- Romansh: “Rocca di Papa”
- Russian: “Рокка-ди-Папа”
- Sardinian: “Rocca di Papa”
- Scots: “Rocca di Papa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rocca di Papa”
- Serbian: “Rocca di Papa”
- Serbian: “Рока ди Папа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rocca di Papa, Roma”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rocca di Papa”
- Sicilian: “Rocca di Papa”
- Sicilian: “Rocca ri Papa”
- Sicilian: “Rucca di Papa”
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- South Azerbaijani: “روکا دی پاپا”
- Spanish: “Rocca di Papa”
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- Tatar: “Рокка-ди-Папа”
- Turkish: “Rocca di Papa”
- Ukrainian: “Рокка-ді-Папа”
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