Ercolano
Ercolano is a city and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the region of Campania in southern Italy. It lies at the western foot of Mount Vesuvius, on the Gulf of Naples, just southeast of Naples.
- Type: Town with 53,700 residents
- Description: comune in Campania, Italy
- Also known as: “Herculaneum”, “Resina”, and “Resìna”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Herculaneum and Villa of the Papyri.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Torre del Greco and Portici.
San Giorgio a Cremano
Town
Ercolano
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Ercolano, Metropolitan Naples, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.8063° or 40° 48′ 23″ north
Longitude
14.3609° or 14° 21′ 39″ east
Population
53,700
Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IT ERC
Open location code
8FGPR946+G9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ercolano” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إركولانو”
- Aragonese: “Ercolano”
- Armenian: “Էրկոլանո”
- Azerbaijani: “Erkolano”
- Basque: “Ercolano”
- Bavarian: “Ercolano”
- Belarusian: “Эркалана”
- Bengali: “এরকোলানো”
- Breton: “Ercolano”
- Bulgarian: “Ерколано”
- Bulgarian: “Еркулано”
- Catalan: “Ercolano”
- Cebuano: “Ercolano”
- Chechen: “Эрколано”
- Chinese: “埃爾科拉諾”
- Czech: “Ercolano”
- Danish: “Ercolano”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ercolano”
- Dutch: “Ercolano”
- Esperanto: “Ercolano”
- Finnish: “Ercolano”
- French: “Ercolano”
- German: “Ercolano”
- Greek: “Ερκολάνο”
- Hebrew: “ארקולנו”
- Hungarian: “Ercolano”
- Indonesian: “Ercolano”
- Interlingua: “Ercolano”
- Irish: “Ercolano”
- Italian: “Ercolano”
- Japanese: “エルコラーノ”
- Kazakh: “Эрколано”
- Korean: “에르콜라노”
- Kotava: “Ercolano”
- Kurdish: “Ercolano”
- Ladin: “Ercolano”
- Latin: “Risina”
- Latvian: “Erkolāno”
- Lithuanian: “Erkolanas”
- Lombard: “Ercolano”
- Luxembourgish: “Ercolano”
- Macedonian: “Ерколано”
- Malay: “Ercolano”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ercolano”
- Neapolitan: “Ercolano”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ercolano”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ercolano”
- Norwegian: “Ercolano”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ercolano”
- Persian: “ارکولانو”
- Piemontese: “Ercolano”
- Polish: “Ercolano”
- Portuguese: “Ercolano”
- Romanian: “Ercolano”
- Russian: “Геркуланум”
- Russian: “Эрколано”
- Sanskrit: “एर्कोलानो”
- Scots: “Ercolano”
- Serbian: “Ерколано”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ercolano, Napoli”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ercolano”
- Sicilian: “Erculanu”
- Slovenian: “Ercolano”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارکولانو”
- Spanish: “Ercolano”
- Swahili: “Ercolano”
- Swedish: “Ercolano”
- Tagalog: “Ercolano”
- Tatar: “Эрколано”
- Turkish: “Ercolano”
- Ukrainian: “Ерколано”
- Uzbek: “Ercolano”
- Venetian: “Ercolano”
- Vietnamese: “Ercolano”
- Volapük: “Ercolano”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ercolano”
- Wu Chinese: “埃尔科拉诺”
- “Ercolano”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Lava Nuovo and Bocche del 1861.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Miglio d’Oro railway station and Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore.
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