Central Italy
Lazio
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Palestrina

Palestrina is a modern Italian city and comune with a population of about 22,000, in , about 35 kilometres east of . It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina.
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  • Type: Town with 21,700 residents
  • Description: comune in Lazio, Italy
  • Also known as: “058074” and “Preneste”
  • Address: Palestrina, 00036
  • Postal code: 00036
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Temple of Fortuna Primigenia and Museo archeologico nazionale.

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The was an ancient Roman temple within the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, a religious complex in Praeneste. It was dedicated to the goddess Fortuna Primigenia and parents brought their newly-born first child to the temple in order to improve its likelihood of surviving infancy and perpetuating the gens.

Museum
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is a museum.

Church
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is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Palestrina, in the region of , Italy. It is the episcopal seat of the Suburbicarian Diocese of Palestrina, and dedicated to Saint Agapitus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cave and Zagarolo.

Town
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is a town and comune in the Latium region of Italy, 42 kilometres southeast of . As of 2011 its population was 10,421. is situated 4 km southeast of Palestrina.

Town
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is a town and comune in the , in the region of of central . It lies 34 kilometres southeast of Rome, and it borders the municipalities of Colonna, , , Palestrina, , . is situated 5 km west of Palestrina.

Village
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is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome in the region of , located about 35 kilometres east of . In 2017, it had a population of 883.

Palestrina

Latitude
41.839° or 41° 50′ 20″ north
Longitude
12.8912° or 12° 53′ 29″ east
Population
21,700
Elevation
435 metres (1,427 feet)
Open location code
8FHJRVQR+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 72962941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6536957
Wiki­data ID
Q243133
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Palestrina” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بالسترينا”
  • Armenian: “Պալեստրինա”
  • Basque: “Palestrina”
  • Belarusian: “Палестрына”
  • Breton: “Palestrina”
  • Bulgarian: “Палестрина”
  • Catalan: “Palestrina”
  • Cebuano: “Palestrina”
  • Central Bikol: “Palestrina”
  • Chechen: “Палестрина”
  • Chinese: “Palestrina”
  • Chinese: “巴勒斯天連拿”
  • Chinese: “帕莱斯特里纳”
  • Chinese: “帕萊斯特里納”
  • Croatian: “Praeneste”
  • Czech: “Palestrina”
  • Danish: “Palestrina”
  • Dutch: “Palestrina”
  • Esperanto: “Palestrina”
  • Finnish: “Palestrina”
  • French: “Palestrina”
  • German: “Palestrina”
  • German: “Praeneste”
  • Greek: “Παλεστρίνα”
  • Hebrew: “פלסטרינה”
  • Hungarian: “Palestrina”
  • Indonesian: “Palestrina”
  • Interlingua: “Palestrina”
  • Irish: “Palestrina”
  • Italian: “Comune di Palestrina”
  • Italian: “Palestrina”
  • Japanese: “パレストリーナ”
  • Kazakh: “Палестрина”
  • Korean: “팔레스트리나”
  • Kurdish: “Palestrina”
  • Ladin: “Palestrina”
  • Latin: “Praeneste”
  • Latvian: “Palestrīna”
  • Ligurian: “Palestrina”
  • Lithuanian: “Palestrina”
  • Lombard: “Palestrina”
  • Macedonian: “Палестрина”
  • Malay: “Palestrina”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Palestrina”
  • Neapolitan: “Palestrina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Palestrina”
  • Norwegian: “Palestrina”
  • Persian: “پالسترینا (شهر)”
  • Persian: “پالسترینا”
  • Piemontese: “Palestrina”
  • Polish: “Palestrina”
  • Portuguese: “Palestrina”
  • Romanian: “Palestrina”
  • Russian: “Палестрина”
  • Scots: “Palestrina”
  • Serbian: “Palestrina”
  • Serbian: “Палестрина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Palestrina”
  • Sicilian: “Palestrina”
  • Slovak: “Palestrina”
  • Slovenian: “Palestrina”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالسترینا (شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پالسترینا”
  • Spanish: “Palestrina”
  • Swahili: “Palestrina”
  • Swedish: “Palestrina”
  • Tagalog: “Palestrina”
  • Tatar: “Палестрина”
  • Turkish: “Palestrina”
  • Ukrainian: “Палестрина”
  • Urdu: “پالیسترینا”
  • Uzbek: “Palestrina”
  • Venetian: “Palestrina”
  • Vietnamese: “Palestrina”
  • Volapük: “Palestrina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palestrina, Roma”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Palestrina”
  • Welsh: “Palestrina”
  • Western Frisian: “Palestrina”
  • Western Panjabi: “پالیسترینا”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕莱斯特里纳 (城镇)”
  • Wu Chinese: “帕莱斯特里纳（城镇）”
  • Xhosa: “Palestrina (kumasipala)”
  • Xhosa: “Palestrina”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴勒斯天連拿”
  • “Palestrina”

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