Castro
Castro is a town and comune in the Italian province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-eastern Italy.- 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marittima and Marina di Marittima.
Marittima
Village
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
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
Castro
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Lecce, Apulia, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.007° or 40° 0′ 25″ north
Longitude
18.4257° or 18° 25′ 33″ east
Population
2,490
Elevation
88 metres (289 feet)
Open location code
8FGW2C4G+R7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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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Notable Places Nearby
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