Cape of Rodon
The Cape of Rodon or Cape of Skanderbeg is a rocky cape on the Adriatic Sea north of Durrës, Albania. On the cape is the Rodoni Castle, built by Skanderbeg in 1463, and Saint Anthony Church.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cape
- Description: mountain in Albania
- Also known as: “Cape Rodoni”, “Hundë e Muzlit”, “Kep i Rodonit”, “Kepi i Muzhllit të Skëndërbeut”, “Kepi i Rodonit”, “Kepi Muzhlit Skenderbeg”, “Muzhëll i Skanderbeut”, “Muzhilli i Skënder-Beut”, “Muzhli”, “Muzhli Skenderbeg”, “Muzli”, “Muzli i Skender-Beut”, and “Rodonē”
Photo: Molla94, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Castle of Rodon and Church of St. Anthony.
Castle of Rodon
Church of St. Anthony
Church
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The ruins of St. Anthony Church is located at Rodon Cape in Durrës County, is a Cultural Monument of Albania. It became a Cultural Monument in 1963. It is also the location where Andrea II Muzaka and his wife Euphemia Mataranga got married most likely around 1328, then buried later on.
Cape of Rodon
- Categories: peninsula and landform
- Location: Ishëm, Durrës, Durrës County, Coastal Albania, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
41.58683° or 41° 35′ 13″ northLongitude
19.44581° or 19° 26′ 45″ eastElevation
38 metres (125 feet)Open location code
8FHXHCPW+P8OpenStreetMap ID
node 6017761734OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Cape of Rodon” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Kepi i Rodonit”
- Bulgarian: “Родон”
- Cebuano: “Kepi i Rodonit”
- Dutch: “Kaap van Rodon”
- Dutch: “Kaap van Skanderbeg”
- Dutch: “Kepi i Rodonit”
- French: “cap de Rodon”
- French: “Cap de Rodon”
- French: “cap de Skanderbeg”
- German: “Kap Rodon”
- German: “Kap Rodoni”
- German: “Kepi i Rodonit”
- Hungarian: “Rodon-fok”
- Hungarian: “Rodon”
- Hungarian: “Rodoni-fok”
- Hungarian: “Szkander bég fok”
- Italian: “Capo Rodoni”
- Persian: “دماغه رودون”
- Russian: “Мюжлит-те-Скендербеут”
- Russian: “Родони”
- Swedish: “Kepi i Rodonit”
- Turkish: “Rodon Burnu”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Родон”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Родоніт”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kepi i Muzhllit të Skënderbeut and Rodoni Park.
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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 “Cape of Rodon”. Photo: Albinfo, CC BY 3.0.