Castel del Monte

Castel del Monte is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the in northern , Italy. Located in the heart of the Gran Sasso mountain range, the town is set into a steep hillside nestled beneath mountain peaks near the high plain of .
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  • Type: Locality with 449 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: 066026” and “Castel del Monte, Abruzzo

Places of Interest

Highlights include San Donato and San Marco Evangelista.

Church
is a church.

Church
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rocca Calascio and Calascio.

Hamlet
The Castle of is a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the municipality of , in the , , Italy. At an elevation of around 1,460 metres, the castle is the highest fortress in the Apennines. is situated 5 km southwest of Castel del Monte.

Village
is a village, which is situated 5 km southwest of Castel del Monte.

Castel del Monte

Latitude
42.3657° or 42° 21′ 57″ north
Longitude
13.7279° or 13° 43′ 40″ east
Population
449
Elevation
1,356 metres (4,449 feet)
Open location code
8FJM9P8H+75
Geo­Names ID
6539823
Wiki­data ID
Q50071
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Castel del Monte” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كاستل دل مونتي
  • Armenian: Կաստել դել Մոնտե
  • Basque: Castel del Monte
  • Belarusian: Кастэль-дэль-Монтэ
  • Breton: Castel del Monte
  • Bulgarian: Кастел дел Монте
  • Cebuano: Castel del Monte
  • Central Bikol: Castel del Monte
  • Chechen: Кастель-дель-Монте (коммуна)
  • Chechen: Кастель-дель-Монте
  • Chinese: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Chinese: 卡斯泰尔德尔蒙泰
  • Chinese: 蒙特堡
  • Danish: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Danish: Castel del Monte
  • Dutch: Castel del Monte, L’Aquila
  • Dutch: Castel del Monte
  • Egyptian Arabic: كاستل دل مونتى
  • Esperanto: Castel del Monte
  • French: Castel del Monte
  • German: Castel del Monte
  • Hungarian: Castel del Monte
  • Interlingua: Castel del Monte
  • Irish: Castel del Monte
  • Italian: Castel del Monte
  • Italian: Comune di Castel del Monte
  • Japanese: カステル・デル・モンテ
  • Kazakh: Кастель-дель-Монте
  • Korean: 카스텔델몬테
  • Kurdish: Castel del Monte
  • Ladin: Castel del Monte
  • Latin: Castrum Montis
  • Lombard: Castel del Monte
  • Malay: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Malay: Castel del Monte
  • Min Nan Chinese: Castel del Monte
  • Neapolitan: Castel del Monte
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Castel del Monte
  • Persian: کستل دل مونته
  • Piemontese: Castel del Monte
  • Polish: Castel del Monte
  • Portuguese: Castel del Monte
  • Romanian: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Romanian: Castel del Monte
  • Russian: Кастель-дель-Монте
  • Serbian: Castel del Monte
  • Serbian: Кастел дел Монте
  • Serbo-Croatian: Castel del Monte, L’Aquila
  • Serbo-Croatian: Castel del Monte
  • Slovak: Castel del Monte
  • South Azerbaijani: کستل دل مونته
  • Spanish: Castel del Monte, L’Aquila
  • Spanish: Castel del Monte
  • Swedish: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Swedish: Castel del Monte
  • Tagalog: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Tagalog: Castel del Monte
  • Tatar: Кастель-дель-Монте (коммуна)
  • Tatar: Кастель-дель-Монте
  • Turkish: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Turkish: Castel del Monte
  • Ukrainian: Кастель-дель-Монте
  • Venetian: Castel del Monte (AQ)
  • Venetian: Castel del Monte
  • Vietnamese: Castel del Monte, Abruzzo
  • Vietnamese: Castel del Monte
  • Volapük: Castel del Monte
  • Waray (Philippines): Castel del Monte
  • Castel d’u Monde

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About Mapcarta. 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 “Castel del Monte”. Photo: Guido Castelli66, CC BY-SA 4.0.