Palestrina
Palestrina is a modern Italian city and comune with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about 35 kilometres east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina.Photo: Blackcat, CC BY-SA 3.0 it.
- Type: Town with 21,700 residents
- Description: comune in Lazio, Italy
- Also known as: “Palestrina, Lazio” and “Preneste”
- Address: Palestrina, 00036
- Postal code: 00036
- Neighbors: Rocca Priora and Rome
Places of Interest
Highlights include Palestrina Cathedral and Temple of Fortuna Primigenia.
Palestrina Cathedral
Church
Photo: LPLT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palestrina Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Palestrina, in the region of Lazio, Italy. It is the episcopal seat of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Palestrina, and dedicated to Saint Agapitus.
Temple of Fortuna Primigenia
Photo: MM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The temple of Fortuna Primigenia was an ancient Roman temple within the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, a religious complex in Praeneste. It was dedicated to the goddess Fortuna Primigenia and parents brought their newly-born first child to the temple in order to improve its likelihood of surviving infancy and perpetuating the gens.
Civic forum of Praeneste
Archaeological site
Photo: MM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Civic forum of Praeneste is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castel San Pietro Romano and Cave.
Castel San Pietro Romano
Village
Castel San Pietro Romano is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about 35 kilometres east of Rome. In 2017, it had a population of 883.
Cave
Town
Photo: rgiannotti1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cave is a town and comune in the Latium region of Italy, 42 kilometres southeast of Rome. As of 2011 its population was 10,421. Cave is situated 4 km southeast of Palestrina.
Rocca di Cave
Village
Rocca di Cave is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the Italian region of Latium, located about 40 kilometres east of Rome. It is home to the remains of the Colonna family's castle, which today houses a Geo-Palaeontological Museum and an astronomical observation point. Rocca di Cave is situated 4½ km east of Palestrina.
Palestrina
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Palestrina, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.83897° or 41° 50′ 20″ northLongitude
12.89125° or 12° 53′ 29″ eastPopulation
21,700Elevation
450 metres (1,476 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT PPDOpen location code
8FHJRVQR+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 72962941OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Palestrina” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالسترينا”
- Armenian: “Պալեստրինա”
- Basque: “Palestrina”
- Belarusian: “Палестрына”
- Breton: “Palestrina”
- Bulgarian: “Палестрина”
- Catalan: “Palestrina”
- Catalan: “Praeneste”
- Cebuano: “Palestrina”
- Central Bikol: “Palestrina”
- Chechen: “Палестрина”
- Chinese: “Palestrina”
- Chinese: “巴勒斯天連拿”
- Chinese: “帕莱斯特里纳”
- Chinese: “帕萊斯特里納”
- Croatian: “Praeneste”
- Czech: “Palestrina”
- Danish: “Palestrina”
- Dutch: “Palestrina”
- Esperanto: “Palestrina”
- Finnish: “Palestrina”
- French: “Palestrina”
- German: “Palestrina”
- German: “Praeneste”
- Greek: “Παλεστρίνα”
- Hebrew: “פלסטרינה”
- Hungarian: “Palestrina”
- Indonesian: “Palestrina”
- Interlingua: “Palestrina”
- Irish: “Palestrina”
- Italian: “Palestrina”
- Japanese: “パレストリーナ”
- Kazakh: “Палестрина”
- Korean: “팔레스트리나”
- Kurdish: “Palestrina”
- Ladin: “Palestrina”
- Latin: “Praeneste”
- Latvian: “Palestrīna”
- Ligurian: “Palestrina”
- Lithuanian: “Palestrina”
- Lombard: “Palestrina”
- Macedonian: “Палестрина”
- Malay: “Palestrina”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palestrina”
- Neapolitan: “Palestrina”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palestrina”
- Norwegian: “Palestrina”
- Persian: “پالسترینا (شهر)”
- Persian: “پالسترینا”
- Piemontese: “Palestrina”
- Polish: “Palestrina”
- Portuguese: “Palestrina”
- Romanian: “Palestrina”
- Russian: “Палестрина”
- Scots: “Palestrina”
- Serbian: “Palestrina”
- Serbian: “Палестрина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palestrina”
- Sicilian: “Palestrina”
- Slovak: “Palestrina”
- Slovenian: “Palestrina”
- South Azerbaijani: “پالسترینا (شهر)”
- South Azerbaijani: “پالسترینا”
- Spanish: “Palestrina”
- Swahili: “Palestrina”
- Swedish: “Palestrina”
- Tagalog: “Palestrina”
- Tatar: “Палестрина”
- Turkish: “Palestrina”
- Ukrainian: “Палестрина”
- Urdu: “پالیسترینا”
- Uzbek: “Palestrina”
- Venetian: “Palestrina”
- Vietnamese: “Palestrina”
- Volapük: “Palestrina”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palestrina, Roma”
- Waray (Philippines): “Palestrina”
- Welsh: “Palestrina”
- Western Frisian: “Palestrina”
- Western Panjabi: “پالیسترینا”
- Wu Chinese: “帕莱斯特里纳 (城镇)”
- Wu Chinese: “帕莱斯特里纳（城镇）”
- Xhosa: “Palestrina (kumasipala)”
- Xhosa: “Palestrina”
- Yue Chinese: “巴勒斯天連拿”
- “Palestrina”
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