Fossa
Fossa is a comune and town in the province of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo region of southern Italy. Bernardino of Fossa was born in the town. The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake contributed to the collapse of a bridge in Fossa, and caused extensive damage to the residential buildings in the town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santa Maria ad Cryptas and Santo Spirito d’Ocre.
Santa Maria ad Cryptas
Church
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Cryptas is a Middle Ages church in Fossa, Province of L'Aquila.
Santo Spirito d’Ocre
Hotel
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Abbey of Santo Spirito d'Ocre was a Cistercian monastery located in Ocre, Province of L'Aquila, Italy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monticchio and Onna.
Onna
Village
Photo: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Onna is a frazione of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo, region of central Italy. It is situated in the Apennine Mountain Range, 582 m above sea level. The population is about 300 people. Onna is situated 3½ km north of Fossa.
San Gregorio
Village
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
San Gregorio is a village in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It is a frazione of the comune of L'Aquila. It sits 584 meters above sea level at the base of Monte Manicola.
Fossa
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: L’Aquila, Abruzzo, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.2981° or 42° 17′ 53″ northLongitude
13.4881° or 13° 29′ 17″ eastPopulation
720Elevation
577 metres (1,893 feet)Open location code
8FJM7FXQ+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 5847391657OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
6541920Wikidata ID
Q50093
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Fossa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوسا”
- Armenian: “Ֆոսա”
- Armenian: “Ֆոսսա”
- Basque: “Fossa”
- Breton: “Fossa”
- Bulgarian: “Фоса”
- Cebuano: “Fossa, Italya”
- Cebuano: “Fossa”
- Central Bikol: “Fossa”
- Chechen: “Фосса (коммуна)”
- Chechen: “Фосса”
- Chinese: “Fossa, Abruzzo”
- Chinese: “福萨”
- Danish: “Fossa (by)”
- Danish: “Fossa”
- Dutch: “Fossa”
- Esperanto: “Fossa”
- French: “Fossa”
- German: “Fossa”
- Hungarian: “Fossa”
- Interlingua: “Fossa”
- Irish: “Fossa”
- Italian: “Comune di Fossa”
- Italian: “Fossa”
- Japanese: “フォッサ”
- Korean: “포사”
- Kurdish: “Fossa”
- Ladin: “Fossa”
- Latin: “Fossa”
- Lombard: “Fossa”
- Malay: “Fossa, Abruzzo”
- Malay: “Fossa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fossa”
- Neapolitan: “Fossa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fossa”
- Persian: “فوسا”
- Piemontese: “Fossa”
- Polish: “Fossa”
- Portuguese: “Fossa”
- Romanian: “Fossa, Abruzzo”
- Romanian: “Fossa”
- Russian: “Фосса”
- Serbian: “Fossa”
- Serbian: “Фоса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fossa, L’Aquila”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fossa”
- Sicilian: “Fossa”
- Slovenian: “Fossa”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوسا (کومونه)”
- South Azerbaijani: “فوسا”
- Spanish: “Fossa”
- Swedish: “Fossa, Italien”
- Swedish: “Fossa”
- Tatar: “Фоса”
- Turkish: “Fossa, Abruzzo”
- Turkish: “Fossa”
- Ukrainian: “Фосса”
- Uzbek: “Fossa”
- Venetian: “Fossa (AQ)”
- Venetian: “Fossa”
- Vietnamese: “Fossa, L’Aquila”
- Vietnamese: “Fossa”
- Volapük: “Fossa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Fossa, Italya”
- “Fossa”
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Localities in the Area
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