Monte Cassino
The Abbey of Monte Cassino is a Benedictine monastery on a rocky hill about 130 kilometres southeast of Rome, in the Latin Valley. Located on the site of the ancient Roman town of Casinum, it is the first house of the Benedictine Order, having been established by Benedict of Nursia himself around 529.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monastery
- Description: rocky hill with monastery, southeast of Rome, Italy
- Also known as: “Abbazia di Montecassino” and “Montecassino”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Monte Cassino Polish war cemetery and Cathedral of Monte Cassino.
Monte Cassino Polish war cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Aniello Bizzoco, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Polish war cemetery at Monte Cassino holds the graves of 1,072 Poles who died storming the bombed-out Benedictine abbey atop the mountain in May 1944, during the Battle of Monte Cassino. Monte Cassino Polish war cemetery is situated 740 metres northwest of Monte Cassino.
Cathedral of Monte Cassino
Church
Photo: Monticiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cathedral of Monte Cassino is a church, which is situated 290 metres northeast of Monte Cassino.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Villa Santa Lucia and Sant’Elia Fiumerapido.
Villa Santa Lucia
Village
Photo: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Villa Santa Lucia is a comune in the province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 110 kilometres southeast of Rome and about 35 kilometres southeast of Frosinone. Villa Santa Lucia is situated 4½ km northwest of Monte Cassino.
Sant’Elia Fiumerapido
Village
Photo: Abbiccì, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sant'Elia Fiumerapido is a town and comune in the province of Frosinone, in the Latin Valley, in the Lazio region of central Italy. The composer Giuseppe Bozzelli was born in Sant'Elia Fiumerapido in 1841. Sant’Elia Fiumerapido is situated 7 km northeast of Monte Cassino.
Terelle
Village
Photo: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Terelle is a comune in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio, located about 110 kilometres southeast of Rome and about 35 kilometres east of Frosinone. Terelle is situated 8 km north of Monte Cassino.
Monte Cassino
- Categories: mountain and religion
- Location: Cassino, Frosinone, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Monte Cassino” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مونتيكاسينو”
- Azerbaijani: “Montekassino”
- Basque: “Montecassino”
- Belarusian: “Монтэ-Касына”
- Belarusian: “Монтэкасіна”
- Breton: “Abati Montecassino”
- Bulgarian: “Монте Касино”
- Catalan: “Abadia de Montecassino”
- Catalan: “Monte Cassino”
- Chinese: “卡西諾山”
- Croatian: “Monte Cassino”
- Croatian: “Montecassino”
- Czech: “Klášter Montecassino”
- Danish: “Monte Cassino”
- Dutch: “Abdij van Montecassino”
- Dutch: “Montecassino”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونتيكاسينو”
- Esperanto: “Monto Kasino”
- Esperanto: “Montokasino”
- Estonian: “Montecassino”
- Finnish: “Montecassino”
- French: “mont Cassin”
- French: “Mont Cassin”
- French: “Monte Cassino”
- French: “Monte-Cassino”
- Galician: “Montecassino”
- German: “Abtei Montecassino”
- Greek: “Μόντε Κασίνο”
- Hebrew: “מונטה קאסינו”
- Hebrew: “מונטה קזינו”
- Hebrew: “מונטה קסינו”
- Hungarian: “Monte Cassino”
- Indonesian: “Monte Cassino”
- Irish: “Monte Cassino”
- Italian: “Montecassino”
- Japanese: “モンテ・カッシーノ”
- Japanese: “モンテ・カッシーノ修道院”
- Japanese: “モンテカシノ”
- Kölsch: “Kluster Monte Cassino”
- Korean: “몬테 카시노”
- Ladin: “Monte Cassino”
- Latin: “Abbatia Montis Cassini”
- Latin: “Abbatia Territorialis Montis Cassini”
- Latin: “Archidioecesis Casinensis”
- Latin: “Mons Casini”
- Latin: “Mons Casinum”
- Latin: “Mons Casinus”
- Latin: “Mons Cassinus”
- Latin: “Montecassino”
- Latvian: “Montekasīno”
- Marathi: “माँते कॅसिनो”
- Neapolitan: “Mondecasine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Monte Cassino”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Montecassino”
- Norwegian: “Monte Cassino”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Cassin”
- Persian: “صومعه بندیکتین”
- Persian: “مونت کازینو”
- Polish: “Monte Cassino”
- Polish: “Montecassino”
- Portuguese: “Abadia do Monte Cassino”
- Portuguese: “Monte Cassino”
- Romanian: “Monte Cassino”
- Russian: “Монте Кассино”
- Russian: “Монте-Кассино”
- Russian: “Монтекассино”
- Serbian: “Монте Касино”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Manastir Monte Kasino”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monte Cassino”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Monte Kasino”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Montecassino”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Монте Касино”
- Sicilian: “Monti Cassinu”
- Sicilian: “Munti Cassinu”
- Sicilian: “Munticassinu”
- Slovak: “Monte Cassino”
- Slovenian: “Monte Cassino”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Montecasino”
- Spanish: “Monte Casino”
- Spanish: “Monte Cassino”
- Spanish: “Montecasino”
- Spanish: “Montecassino”
- Swahili: “Montecassino”
- Swedish: “Monte Cassino”
- Swedish: “Montecassino”
- Thai: “มอนเตกัสซีโน”
- Ukrainian: “Монте-Кассіно”
- Uzbek: “Monte Cassino”
- Venetian: “Montecassino”
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