Capestrano
Capestrano is a comune and small town with 885 inhabitants, in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. It is located in the Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park.Photo: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Locality with 885 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “066019”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aufina and Santa Maria delle Grazie.
Aufina
Archaeological site
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aufīna was an ancient city of the Vestini, mentioned by Pliny, who enumerates the Aufinates Cismontani among the communities of the Vestini; and states that they were united with the Peltuinates, but whether municipally or locally, is not clear.
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santa Maria delle Grazie is a church, which is situated 4 km southwest of Capestrano.
San Pietro ad Oratorium Abbey
Church
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Pietro ad Oratorium is the name of a Romanesque-style Roman Catholic church, and formerly of an adjacent Benedictine monastery, now in ruins, located on a rural mountainside near the banks of the Tirino river, about 6 km from the town of Capestrano, in the region of Abruzzo, central Italy. San Pietro ad Oratorium Abbey is situated 4 km southeast of Capestrano.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Civitaretenga.
Civitaretenga
Village
Photo: Madmax75, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Civitaretenga is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of Capestrano.
Capestrano
- Category: comune of Italy
- Location: L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Capestrano” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كابسترانو”
- Armenian: “Կապեստրանո”
- Basque: “Capestrano”
- Belarusian: “Капестрана”
- Breton: “Capestrano”
- Bulgarian: “Капестрано”
- Catalan: “Capestrano”
- Cebuano: “Capestrano”
- Central Bikol: “Capestrano”
- Chechen: “Капестрано”
- Chinese: “Capestrano”
- Chinese: “卡佩斯特拉诺”
- Czech: “Capestrano”
- Dutch: “Capestrano”
- Esperanto: “Capestrano”
- French: “Capestrano”
- German: “Capestrano”
- Hebrew: “קפסטראנו”
- Hungarian: “Capestrano”
- Interlingua: “Capestrano”
- Irish: “Capestrano”
- Italian: “Capestrano”
- Italian: “Comune di Capestrano”
- Japanese: “カペストラーノ”
- Kazakh: “Капестрано”
- Korean: “카페스트라노”
- Kurdish: “Capestrano”
- Ladin: “Capestrano”
- Latin: “Capistranum”
- Lombard: “Capestrano”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Capestrano”
- Malay: “Capestrano”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Capestrano”
- Neapolitan: “Capestrano”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Capestrano”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Capestrano”
- Persian: “کاپسترانو”
- Piemontese: “Capestrano”
- Polish: “Capestrano”
- Portuguese: “Capestrano”
- Romanian: “Capestrano”
- Russian: “Капестрано”
- Sardinian: “Capestrano”
- Serbian: “Capestrano”
- Serbian: “Капестрано”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Capestrano, L’Aquila”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Capestrano”
- Sicilian: “Capestranu”
- Slovenian: “Capestrano”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاپسترانو”
- Spanish: “Capestrano”
- Swedish: “Capestrano”
- Tagalog: “Capestrano”
- Tatar: “Капестрано”
- Turkish: “Capestrano”
- Ukrainian: “Капестрано”
- Uzbek: “Capestrano”
- Venetian: “Capestrano”
- Vietnamese: “Capestrano”
- Volapük: “Capestrano”
- Waray (Philippines): “Capestrano”
- “Capestrano”
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