Gerace
Gerace is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. Gerace is located some 10 kilometres inland from Locri, yet the latter town and the sea can be seen from Gerace's perch atop a 500-metre vertical rock.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Attilios, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 2,970 residents
- Description: Italian town
- Also known as: “080036”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, Gerace and San Francesco.
Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, Gerace
Church
Photo: Nikater, Public domain.
Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, Gerace is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Locri and Portigliola.
Locri
Town
Photo: Francesco Emanuele Capogreco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Locri is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. Its name derives from that of the ancient Greek region of Locris. Today it is an important administrative and cultural center on the Ionian Coast and within its province. Locri is situated 6 km southeast of Gerace.
Portigliola
Village
Portigliola is a comune in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about 80 kilometres southwest of Catanzaro and about 50 kilometres northeast of Reggio Calabria. Portigliola is situated 5 km south of Gerace.
Sant’Ilario dello Ionio
Village
Sant'Ilario dello Ionio is a local municipality in the Province of Reggio Calabria in the Italian region Calabria, located about 105 kilometres southwest of Catanzaro and about 85 kilometres east of Reggio Calabria. Sant’Ilario dello Ionio is situated 6 km south of Gerace.
Gerace
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
38.273° or 38° 16′ 23″ northLongitude
16.2188° or 16° 13′ 8″ eastPopulation
2,970Elevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)Open location code
8FCR76F9+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 67275721OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6540046Wikidata ID
Q54612
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Gerace” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غيراتشي”
- Armenian: “Ջերաչե”
- Basque: “Gerace”
- Breton: “Gerace”
- Bulgarian: “Джераче”
- Catalan: “Gerace”
- Cebuano: “Gerace”
- Central Bikol: “Gerace”
- Chechen: “Джераче”
- Chinese: “Gerace”
- Chinese: “杰拉切”
- Dagbani: “wɔwara”
- Dutch: “Gerace”
- Esperanto: “Gerace”
- Farefare: “Wa’ara”
- French: “Gerace”
- German: “Gerace”
- Greek: “Γεράκι Καλαβρίας”
- Hungarian: “Gerace”
- Interlingua: “Gerace”
- Irish: “Gerace”
- Italian: “Comune di Gerace”
- Italian: “Gerace”
- Japanese: “ジェラーチェ”
- Kazakh: “Джераче”
- Kurdish: “Gerace”
- Ladin: “Gerace”
- Latin: “Hieracium”
- Lombard: “Gerace”
- Malay: “Gerace”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gerace”
- Neapolitan: “Gerace”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gerace”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gerace”
- Persian: “جراچه”
- Piemontese: “Gerace”
- Polish: “Gerace”
- Portuguese: “Gerace”
- Romanian: “Gerace”
- Russian: “Джераче”
- Serbian: “Gerace”
- Serbian: “Ђераче”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gerace, Reggio Calabria”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gerace”
- Sicilian: “Jeraci”
- Slovenian: “Gerace”
- South Azerbaijani: “جراچه”
- Spanish: “Gerace”
- Swedish: “Gerace”
- Tagalog: “Gerace”
- Tatar: “Джераче”
- Turkish: “Gerace”
- Ukrainian: “Джераче”
- Uzbek: “Gerace”
- Venetian: “Gerace”
- Volapük: “Gerace”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gerace”
- “Gerace”
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