Agrigento
Agrigento rises on a ridge above the sea, its honey-hued buildings unfolding across the hills like a sunlit amphitheatre. Behind it, vineyards and almond groves stretch inland; below it, the ancient Valley of the Temples spills toward the coast in a sweep of Doric grandeur.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations: Valley of the Temples.
Places of Interest
Highlights: Temple of Concordia and Temple of Olympian Zeus, Agrigento.
Temple of Concordia
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Temple of Olympian Zeus, Agrigento
Archaeological site
Temple of Castor and Pollux
Archaeological site
Temple of Castor and Pollux is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porto Empedocle and Villaseta.
San Leone
Village
Photo: Toni Pecoraro, Public domain.Agrigento
- Type: City with 55,300 residents
- Description: Italian comune in Sicily
- Also known as: “Agrigento (kapital sa lalawigan)”, “Агригент”, “Агриженто”, “Аргигенто”, “Джирдженти”, “Жирженти”, “أغريجنتو”, “كركنت”, “كِرْكَنْت”, “अग्रिजेंतो”, and “阿格里琴坦”
- Neighbors: Caltanissetta, Porto Empedocle, and Sant’Angelo Muxaro
- Categories: comune of Italy, polis, and locality
- Location: Agrigento, Sicily, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
37.3123° or 37° 18′ 44″ north
Longitude
13.5747° or 13° 34′ 29″ east
Population
55,300
Elevation
230 metres (755 feet)
IATA airport code
QAO
UN/LOCODE
IT AGR
Open location code
8F9M8H6F+WV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Agrigento” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جرجنت”
- Arabic: “جِرْجَنْت”
- Armenian: “Ագրիջենդո”
- Armenian: “Ագրիջենտո”
- Asturian: “Agrigento”
- Azerbaijani: “Aqricento”
- Basque: “Agrigento”
- Belarusian: “Агрыджэнта”
- Bengali: “এগ্রিজেনেটু”
- Breton: “Agrigento”
- Bulgarian: “Агридженто”
- Catalan: “Agrigent”
- Cebuano: “Agrigento”
- Chechen: “Агридженто”
- Chinese: “阿格里真托”
- Corsican: “Agrigentu”
- Corsican: “Girgenti”
- Croatian: “Agrigento”
- Czech: “Agrigento”
- Danish: “Agrigento”
- Dimli (individual language): “Agrigento”
- Dutch: “Agrigento”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اجريجنتو”
- Emilian: “Agrigento”
- Erzya: “Агридженто”
- Esperanto: “Agrigento”
- Esperanto: “Agriĝento”
- Estonian: “Agrigento”
- Finnish: “Agrigento”
- French: “Agrigente”
- Galician: “Agrigento”
- Galician: “Agrixento”
- Georgian: “აგრიჯენტო”
- German: “Agrigent”
- Greek: “Αγκριτζέντο”
- Gujarati: “એગ્રીજેંટો”
- Hebrew: “אגריג’נטו”
- Hindi: “एग्रीजेंटो”
- Hungarian: “Agrigento”
- Ido: “Agrigento”
- Indonesian: “Agrigento”
- Interlingua: “Agrigento”
- Irish: “Agrigento”
- Italian: “Agrigento”
- Japanese: “アグリジェント”
- Kannada: “ಅಗ್ರಿಜೆಂಟೋ”
- Kazakh: “Агридженто”
- Korean: “아그리젠토”
- Kotava: “Agrigento”
- Kurdish: “Agrigento”
- Ladin: “Agrigento”
- Latin: “Agrigentum”
- Latvian: “Agridžento”
- Ligurian: “Agrigento”
- Lithuanian: “Agridžentas”
- Lombard: “Agrigento”
- Luxembourgish: “Agrigento”
- Macedonian: “Агриџенто”
- Malay: “Agrigento”
- Malayalam: “അഗ്രിജന്തോ”
- Maltese: “Agrigento”
- Marathi: “एग्रीजेंटो”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Agrigento”
- Mingrelian: “აგრიჯენტო”
- Moksha: “Агриджэнто”
- Neapolitan: “Agrigende”
- Neapolitan: “Agrigento”
- Northern Frisian: “Agrigent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Agrigento”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Agrigento”
- Norwegian: “Agrigento”
- Ossetian: “Агридженто”
- Pampanga: “Agrigento”
- Persian: “آگریجنتو”
- Piemontese: “Agrigent”
- Polish: “Agrigento”
- Polish: “Agrygent”
- Portuguese: “Agrigento”
- Romanian: “Agrigento”
- Russian: “Агридженто”
- Sanskrit: “अग्रिजेन्तो”
- Scots: “Agrigento”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Agrigento”
- Serbian: “Агриђенто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Agrigento”
- Sicilian: “Girgenti”
- Sinhala: “ඇග්රිජෙන්ටෝ”
- Slovak: “Agrigento”
- Slovenian: “Agrigento”
- Spanish: “Agrigento”
- Swahili: “Agrigento”
- Swedish: “Agrigento”
- Tagalog: “Agrigento”
- Tamil: “அக்ரிகெண்டோ”
- Tatar: “Агриҗенто”
- Telugu: “అగ్రిజెంటో”
- Thai: “อากรีเจนโต”
- Tumbuka: “Agrigento”
- Turkish: “Agrigento”
- Twi: “Agrigento”
- Ukrainian: “Агрідженто”
- Ukrainian: “Аґрідженто”
- Urdu: “ایگریجینتو”
- Uzbek: “Agrigento”
- Venetian: “Agrixento”
- Veps: “Agridžento”
- Vietnamese: “Agrigento”
- Vlaams: “Agrigento”
- Volapük: “Agrigento”
- Waray (Philippines): “Agrigento”
- Welsh: “Agrigento”
- Western Armenian: “Ակրիճենթօ”
- Wu Chinese: “阿格里真托”
- Yue Chinese: “阿格里真圖”
- “Agrigento”
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