Castro
Castro is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-eastern Italy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,490 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “075096” and “Castro, Apulia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grotta Zinzulusa and San Filippo e Giacomo.
Cimitero di Vignacastrisi
Cemetery
Photo: Liviogasp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cimitero di Vignacastrisi is a cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marittima and Marina di Marittima.
Marittima
Village
Photo: Marzoide88, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marittima is a hamlet of the Diso municipality in the province of Lecce. Located in the lowest part of Salento between Castro, Andrano and Diso, Marittima is about 48 km from Lecce. The part of the country overlooking the coast is named Marina di Marittima…
Marina di Marittima
Hamlet
Photo: Salento81, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Marina di Marittima is a seaside resort on the Adriatic coast of Salento in the comune of Diso in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. It takes its name from the frazione that is located in the hinterland: Marittima.
Marina di Andrano
Hamlet
Photo: Lupiae, Public domain.
Marina di Andrano is a hamlet, which is situated 4½ km southwest of Castro.
Castro
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Lecce, Apulia, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.007° or 40° 0′ 25″ northLongitude
18.4257° or 18° 25′ 33″ eastPopulation
2,490Elevation
88 metres (289 feet)Open location code
8FGW2C4G+R7OpenStreetMap ID
node 68530001OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6543631Wikidata ID
Q52129
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Castro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاسترو”
- Armenian: “Կաստրո”
- Basque: “Castro”
- Belarusian: “Кастра”
- Breton: “Castro”
- Bulgarian: “Кастро”
- Catalan: “Castro”
- Cebuano: “Castro (munisipyo sa Italya, Puglia, Provincia di Lecce, lat 40,01, long 18,43)”
- Cebuano: “Castro”
- Chechen: “Кастро”
- Chinese: “Castro”
- Chinese: “卡斯特罗”
- Danish: “Castro (by)”
- Danish: “Castro”
- Dutch: “Castro”
- Esperanto: “Castro”
- French: “Castro”
- German: “Castro”
- Hungarian: “Castro”
- Interlingua: “Castro”
- Irish: “Castro”
- Italian: “Castro”
- Italian: “Comune di Castro”
- Japanese: “カストロ”
- Kazakh: “Кастро”
- Kurdish: “Castro”
- Ladin: “Castro”
- Latin: “Castrum Minervae”
- Lombard: “Castro”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Castro”
- Malay: “Castro, Apulia”
- Malay: “Castro”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Castro”
- Neapolitan: “Castro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Castro”
- Persian: “کاسترو”
- Piemontese: “Castro”
- Polish: “Castro”
- Portuguese: “Castro”
- Romanian: “Castro (Puglia)”
- Romanian: “Castro, Apulia”
- Russian: “Кастро”
- Serbian: “Castro”
- Serbian: “Кастро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Castro, Lecce”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Castro”
- Sicilian: “Casciu (artìculu ‘n salentinu)”
- Sicilian: “Casciu”
- Slovenian: “Castro”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاسترو (آپولیا)”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاسترو”
- Spanish: “Castro”
- Swedish: “Castro, Apulien”
- Swedish: “Castro”
- Tagalog: “Castro, Apulia”
- Tagalog: “Castro”
- Tatar: “Кастро”
- Turkish: “Castro, Puglia”
- Turkish: “Castro”
- Ukrainian: “Кастро”
- Uzbek: “Castro”
- Venetian: “Castro (LE)”
- Venetian: “Castro”
- Volapük: “Castro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Castro, Apulia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Castro”
- “Castro”
- “Castro (LE)”
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