Southern Italy
Calabria
Province of Cosenza

Tortora

Tortora is a town and comune in the in the region of southern .
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  • Type: Village with 5,820 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “078149”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blanda.

Archaeological site
Photo: Francesco Stuppello, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, and later Julia, was an ancient city of Lucania now located at Palecastro di Tortora, , . It was mentioned by Ptolemy among the inland towns of that province; but placed both by Pliny and Mela on or near the coast of the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Praia a Mare and Castrocucco.

Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an undiscovered pearl in the region of , the perfect place for travellers looking for a place off the beaten track. This village of 5000 people stands in front of Dino island, surrounded by the stunning Policastro gulf.

Suburb
Photo: Luke18389, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 3½ km west of Tortora.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km west of Tortora.

Tortora

Latitude
39.9413° or 39° 56′ 29″ north
Longitude
15.8052° or 15° 48′ 19″ east
Population
5,820
Elevation
292 metres (958 feet)
Open location code
8FFQWRR4+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67274886
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6539067
Wiki­data ID
Q54028
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Waray—“Tortora” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Տորտորա”
  • Basque: “Tortora”
  • Breton: “Tortora”
  • Bulgarian: “Тортора”
  • Catalan: “Tortora”
  • Cebuano: “Tortora”
  • Central Bikol: “Tortora”
  • Chechen: “Тортора”
  • Chinese: “Tortora”
  • Chinese: “托尔托拉”
  • Dutch: “Tortora”
  • Esperanto: “Tortora”
  • French: “Tortora”
  • German: “Tortora”
  • Hungarian: “Tortora”
  • Interlingua: “Tortora”
  • Irish: “Tortora”
  • Italian: “Comune di Tortora”
  • Italian: “Tortora”
  • Japanese: “トルトラ”
  • Kazakh: “Тортора”
  • Kurdish: “Tortora”
  • Ladin: “Tortora”
  • Latin: “Turtura”
  • Lombard: “Tortora”
  • Malay: “Tortora”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tortora”
  • Neapolitan: “Tortora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tortora”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tortora”
  • Persian: “تورتورا”
  • Piemontese: “Tortora”
  • Polish: “Tortora”
  • Portuguese: “Tortora”
  • Romanian: “Tortora”
  • Russian: “Тортора”
  • Serbian: “Tortora”
  • Serbian: “Тортора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tortora, Cosenza”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tortora”
  • Sicilian: “Turtura”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تورتورا”
  • Spanish: “Tortora”
  • Swedish: “Tortora”
  • Tagalog: “Tortora”
  • Tatar: “Тортора”
  • Turkish: “Tortora”
  • Ukrainian: “Тортора”
  • Uzbek: “Tortora”
  • Venetian: “Tortora (CS)”
  • Venetian: “Tortora”
  • Volapük: “Tortora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tortora”
  • “Tortora”

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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 “Tortora”. Photo: Francesco Stuppello, Public domain.