Greccio

Greccio is an old hilltown and comune of the in the region of , overhanging the Rieti Valley on a spur of the , a sub-range of the Apennines, about 16 kilometres by road northwest of , the nearest large town.
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  • Type: Village with 1,530 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: 057031
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sanctuary of Greccio and Greccio train station.

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 .

Church
is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic parish church located in the center of the town of Greccio, in the , region of , Italy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Contigliano and Moggio.

Village
is a comune in the in the region of , located about 60 kilometres northeast of and about 8 kilometres west of . is situated 4 km south of Greccio.

Hamlet
is a hamlet, which is situated 7 km north of Greccio.

Greccio

Latitude
42.4448° or 42° 26′ 41″ north
Longitude
12.7518° or 12° 45′ 7″ east
Population
1,530
Elevation
693 metres (2,274 feet)
Open location code
8FJJCQV2+WP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 72961101
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3175850
Wiki­data 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
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