Greccio
Greccio is an old hilltown and comune of the province of Rieti in the Italian region of Lazio, overhanging the Rieti Valley on a spur of the Monti Sabini, a sub-range of the Apennines, about 16 kilometres by road northwest of Rieti, the nearest large town.Photo: Fiat 500e, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Christopher John SSF, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sanctuary of Greccio and Greccio train station.
Sanctuary of Greccio
Monastery
The Hermitage of Greccio Sanctuary is one of the four shrines erected by Saint Francis of Assisi in the Sacred Valley, along with the Sanctuary of Fonte Colombo, the Sanctuary of the Forest, and the convent of Poggio Bustone.
Greccio train station
Railway station
Photo: Una giornata uggiosa ‘94, CC BY 3.0.
Greccio train station is a railway station.
San Michele Arcangelo
Church
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Michele Arcangelo is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located in the center of the town of Greccio, in the province of Rieti, region of Lazio, Italy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Contigliano and I Prati.
Contigliano
Village
Photo: Una giornata uggiosa ‘94, CC BY 3.0.
Contigliano is a comune in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region of Lazio, located about 60 kilometres northeast of Rome and about 8 kilometres west of Rieti. Contigliano is situated 4 km south of Greccio.
I Prati
Hamlet
Photo: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0.
I Prati is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km northwest of Greccio.
Moggio
Hamlet
Photo: Una giornata uggiosa ‘94, CC BY 3.0.
Moggio is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km north of Greccio.
Greccio
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Rieti, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.4448° or 42° 26′ 41″ northLongitude
12.7518° or 12° 45′ 7″ eastPopulation
1,530Elevation
693 metres (2,274 feet)Open location code
8FJJCQV2+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 72961101OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3175850Wikidata ID
Q224144
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Greccio” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “‘جريسيو’”
- Arabic: “جريسيو”
- Armenian: “Գրեչո”
- Basque: “Greccio”
- Breton: “Greccio”
- Bulgarian: “Гречо”
- Catalan: “Greccio”
- Cebuano: “Greccio”
- Central Bikol: “Greccio”
- Chechen: “Греччо”
- Chinese: “Greccio”
- Chinese: “格雷乔”
- Czech: “Greccio”
- Czech: “obec v provincii Rieti”
- Danish: “Greccio”
- Dutch: “Greccio”
- Esperanto: “Greccio”
- French: “Greccio”
- German: “Greccio”
- Hebrew: “גרצ’יו”
- Hungarian: “Greccio”
- Indonesian: “Greccio”
- Interlingua: “Greccio”
- Irish: “Greccio”
- Italian: “Comune di Greccio”
- Italian: “Greccio”
- Japanese: “グレッチョ”
- Korean: “그레초”
- Kurdish: “Greccio”
- Ladin: “Greccio”
- Latin: “Graecium”
- Latin: “Grecium”
- Ligurian: “Greccio”
- Lombard: “Greccio”
- Macedonian: “Гречо”
- Malay: “Creccio”
- Maltese: “Greccio”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Greccio”
- Neapolitan: “Greccio”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Greccio”
- Norwegian: “Greccio”
- Persian: “جرچیو”
- Piemontese: “Greccio”
- Polish: “Greccio”
- Portuguese: “Greccio”
- Romanian: “Greccio”
- Russian: “Греччо”
- Serbian: “Greccio”
- Serbian: “Гречо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Greccio, Rieti”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Greccio”
- Sicilian: “Grecciu”
- Slovenian: “Greccio”
- South Azerbaijani: “جرچیو”
- Spanish: “Greccio”
- Swahili: “Greccio”
- Swedish: “Greccio”
- Tagalog: “Greccio”
- Tatar: “Гречо”
- Turkish: “Greccio”
- Ukrainian: “Греччо”
- Venetian: “Greccio”
- Vietnamese: “Greccio”
- Volapük: “Greccio”
- Waray (Philippines): “Greccio”
- “Greccio”
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