Bolsena
Bolsena is a town and comune of Italy, in the province of Viterbo in northern Lazio on the eastern shore of Lake Bolsena. It is 10 km north-north west of Montefiascone and 36 km north-west of Viterbo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,110 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Neighbors: Montefiascone and Orvieto
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica of Saint Christina.
Basilica of Saint Christina
Church
Photo: Sidvics, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica of Santa Cristina is a Catholic basilica church in Bolsena, province of Viterbo, region of Lazio, Italy. The church is best known for being the site of a Eucharistic Miracle in 1263, immortalized by The Mass at Bolsena by Raphael in the Vatican palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castel Giorgio and Bagnoregio.
Castel Giorgio
Village
Photo: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castel Giorgio is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 60 kilometres southwest of Perugia and about 60 km northwest of Terni on the Alfine Highland, facing the Lake Bolsena. Castel Giorgio is situated 7 km north of Bolsena.
Bagnoregio
Village
Photo: Giladtop, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bagnoregio is a comune in the Province of Viterbo in the Italian region of Lazio, located about 90 kilometres northwest of Rome and about 28 kilometres north of Viterbo. Bagnoregio is situated 9 km east of Bolsena.
Sugano
Village
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Sugano is a village, which is situated 9 km northeast of Bolsena.
Bolsena
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Bolsena, Viterbo, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.64411° or 42° 38′ 39″ northLongitude
11.98496° or 11° 59′ 6″ eastPopulation
4,110Elevation
350 metres (1,148 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT 6TIOpen location code
8FJHJXVM+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 72964078OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Bolsena” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بولسينا”
- Armenian: “Բոլսենա”
- Basque: “Bolsena”
- Belarusian: “Бальсена”
- Breton: “Bolsena”
- Bulgarian: “Болсена”
- Catalan: “Bolsena”
- Cebuano: “Bolsena”
- Central Bikol: “Bolsena”
- Chechen: “Больсена”
- Chinese: “Bolsena”
- Chinese: “博尔塞纳”
- Chinese: “博赛纳湖”
- Czech: “Bolsena”
- Danish: “Bolsena”
- Dutch: “Bolsena”
- Esperanto: “Bolsena”
- Estonian: “Bolsena järv”
- Finnish: “Bolsena”
- French: “Bolsena”
- German: “Bolsena”
- Greek: “Μπολσένα”
- Hebrew: “אגם בולסנה”
- Hebrew: “בולזנה”
- Hungarian: “Bolsena”
- Interlingua: “Bolsena”
- Irish: “Bolsena”
- Italian: “Bolsena”
- Japanese: “ボルセーナ”
- Japanese: “ボルセーナ湖”
- Kazakh: “Больсена”
- Korean: “볼세나”
- Kurdish: “Bolsena”
- Ladin: “Bolsena”
- Latin: “Lacus Volsiniensis”
- Latin: “Volsinii Novi”
- Latin: “Volsinii”
- Latvian: “Bolsēnas ezers”
- Ligurian: “Bolsena”
- Lithuanian: “Bolsena”
- Lombard: “Bolsena”
- Malay: “Bolsena”
- Malay: “Tasik Bolsena”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bolsena”
- Neapolitan: “Bolsena”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolsena”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolsena”
- Norwegian: “Bolsena”
- Persian: “بولسنا”
- Piemontese: “Bolsena”
- Polish: “Bolsena”
- Portuguese: “Bolsena”
- Romanian: “Bolsena”
- Russian: “Больсена”
- Serbian: “Bolsena”
- Serbian: “Болсена”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bolsena, Viterbo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bolsena”
- Sicilian: “Bolsena”
- Slovenian: “Bolsena”
- South Azerbaijani: “بولسنا”
- Spanish: “Bolsena”
- Swedish: “Bolsena”
- Swiss German: “Bolsena”
- Tagalog: “Bolsena”
- Tatar: “Больсена”
- Tosk Albanian: “Bolsena”
- Turkish: “Bolsena”
- Ukrainian: “Больсена”
- Uzbek: “Bolsena”
- Venetian: “Bolsena”
- Vietnamese: “Bolsena”
- Volapük: “Bolsena”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bolsena”
- Western Frisian: “Bolsena”
- “Bolsena”
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