Sestu
Sestu is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in the Italian region Sardinia, located about 10 kilometres north of Cagliari. It has 20,747 inhabitants as of 2025.Places of Interest
Highlights include Cagliari Observatory.
Cagliari Observatory
Building
The Cagliari Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Italy's Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica. It is located 20 km away from Cagliari in Sardinia. It was founded in 1899 to study the Earth's rotation. Cagliari Observatory is situated 4 km southeast of Sestu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elmas and Barracca Manna.
Elmas
Village
Elmas is a comune of the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in the Italian region of Sardinia, located about 8 kilometres northwest of Cagliari. Until 1989 Elmas was a district of Cagliari. Elmas is situated 5 km southwest of Sestu.
Monserrato
Town
Monserrato is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari in the autonomous region of Sardinia in Italy, located about 5 kilometres northeast of Cagliari. Monserrato is situated 7 km southeast of Sestu.
Sestu
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Province of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
39.2999° or 39° 17′ 60″ north
Longitude
9.0926° or 9° 5′ 33″ east
Population
15,200
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
8FFF73XV+X2
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Sestu” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Sestu”
- Arabic: “سيستو”
- Aragonese: “Sestu”
- Armenian: “Սեստու”
- Basque: “Sestu”
- Basque: “Sèstu”
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- Bulgarian: “Сесту”
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- Chinese: “Sestu”
- Chinese: “塞斯图”
- Croatian: “Sestu”
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- Interlingua: “Sestu”
- Irish: “Sestu”
- Italian: “Comune di Sestu”
- Italian: “Sestu”
- Italian: “Sèstu”
- Japanese: “セストゥ”
- Kazakh: “Сесту”
- Korean: “세스투”
- Kurdish: “Sestu”
- Ladin: “Sestu”
- Latin: “Sextus ab Urbe Lapis”
- Lithuanian: “Sestu”
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- Occitan (post 1500): “Sèstu”
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- Romanian: “Sestu”
- Russian: “Сесту”
- Sardinian: “Sestu”
- Sardinian: “Sèstu”
- Serbian: “Sestu”
- Serbian: “Сесто Каљари”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sestu, Cagliari”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sestu”
- Sicilian: “Sestu”
- South Azerbaijani: “سستو (کومونه)”
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- Spanish: “Sèstu”
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- Tatar: “Сесту”
- Turkish: “Sestu”
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- Waray (Philippines): “Sestu”
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