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Monte Cavo

Monte Cavo, or less often, "Monte Albano," is the second highest mountain of the complex of the , near , . An old volcano extinguished around 10,000 years ago, it lies about 20 km from the sea, in the territory of the comune of .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 950 metres
  • Description: mountain in Italy
  • Also known as: “Alban Mount”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Geophysical Museum, Rocca di Papa and Lake Albano.

Museum
Photo: Stef Mec, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lake
Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small volcanic crater lake in the of , at the foot of Monte Cavo, 20 km southeast of . , overlooking the lake, is the site of the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo.

Peak
Photo: Deblu68, Public domain.
is a peak.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rocca di Papa and Nemi.

Town
Photo: Stef Mec, CC BY 3.0.
is a small town and comune in the , Lazio, Italy. It is one of the Castelli Romani about 25 kilometres southeast of Rome on the .

Village
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is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, in the overlooking , a volcanic crater lake. It is 6 kilometres northwest of and about 30 kilometres southeast of .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Monte Cavo

Latitude
41.75217° or 41° 45′ 8″ north
Longitude
12.71009° or 12° 42′ 36″ east
Elevation
950 metres (3,117 feet)
Open location code
8FHJQP26+V2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262471892
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
3179266
Wiki­data ID
Q1729630
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Monte Cavo” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Монте Каво”
  • Catalan: “Mont Cavo”
  • Cebuano: “Monte Cavo”
  • Chinese: “卡沃山”
  • Dutch: “Monte Cavo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت كاڤو”
  • Finnish: “Monte Cavo”
  • French: “Monte Cavo”
  • German: “Monte Cavo”
  • Italian: “Mons Albanus”
  • Italian: “Monte Albano”
  • Italian: “Monte Cavo”
  • Italian: “Vulcano Laziale”
  • Japanese: “カーヴォ山”
  • Korean: “몬테 카보”
  • Ladin: “Monte Cavo”
  • Latin: “Mons Albanus”
  • Polish: “Monte Cavo”
  • Serbian: “Монте Каво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Monte Cavo”
  • Spanish: “Monte Cavo”
  • Venetian: “Monte Cavo”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Monte Cavo”. Photo: NikonZ7II, CC BY-SA 4.0.