Castel del Monte
Castel del Monte is a medieval and Renaissance hill town and comune in the province of L'Aquila in northern Abruzzo, 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 Campo Imperatore.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rocca Calascio and Calascio.
Rocca Calascio
Hamlet
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Castle of Rocca Calascio is a mountaintop fortress or rocca in the municipality of Calascio, in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. At an elevation of around 1,460 metres, the castle is the highest fortress in the Apennines. Rocca Calascio is situated 5 km southwest of Castel del Monte.
Calascio
Village
Photo: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Calascio is a village, which is situated 5 km southwest of Castel del Monte.
Castel del Monte
- Category: commune of Italy
- Location: L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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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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