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Alcamo

Alcamo is a town in the of western . The climate is mild and its central position on the Gulf of Castellammare offers views of Mount Bonifato and the vineyard-covered rolling hills of the surrounding countryside.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, Alcamo and Arab fountain of Alcamo.

Museum
Photo: Daniele Pugliesi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta is a 14th-century basilica in Alcamo, , , southern . It is named after the Assumption.

Fountain
Photo: Daniele Pugliesi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is very ancient, and is still functional: it was built during the period of the Arab domination of the town. It is located in the lower part of Alcamo, at about 300 metres from the Sanctuary of Madonna of Miracles.

Peak
Photo: Lukasgukas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a mountain in north western in the . It is famous for the pine forest and the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alcamo Marina.

Photo: Daniele Pugliesi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a seaside resort in Sicily in the territory of Alcamo. It is characterized by a lot of holiday houses, where thousands of people from Alcamo are hosted together with tourists, attracted by its golden beaches and from the possibility they have of visiting the nearby tourist resorts.

Alcamo

Latitude
37.9767° or 37° 58′ 36″ north
Longitude
12.9627° or 12° 57′ 46″ east
Population
44,600
Elevation
258 metres (846 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT ALC
Open location code
8F9JXXG7+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67257138
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2525755
Wiki­data ID
Q481544
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Alcamo” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “القاموق”
  • Arabic: “الكامو”
  • Arabic: “علقمة”
  • Armenian: “Ալկամո”
  • Basque: “Alcamo”
  • Belarusian: “Алькама”
  • Breton: “Alcamo”
  • Bulgarian: “Алкамо”
  • Catalan: “Alcamo”
  • Cebuano: “Alcamo”
  • Chechen: “Алькамо”
  • Chinese: “Alcamo”
  • Chinese: “阿尔卡莫”
  • Danish: “Alcamo”
  • Dutch: “Alcamo”
  • Esperanto: “Alcamo”
  • Estonian: “Alcamo vald”
  • French: “Alcamo”
  • Galician: “Alcamo”
  • German: “Alcamo”
  • Greek: “Άλκαμο”
  • Hungarian: “Alcamo”
  • Interlingua: “Alcamo”
  • Irish: “Alcamo”
  • Italian: “Alcamo”
  • Japanese: “アルカモ”
  • Kazakh: “Алькамо”
  • Korean: “알카모”
  • Kurdish: “Alcamo”
  • Ladin: “Alcamo”
  • Latin: “Alcamum”
  • Latvian: “Alkamo”
  • Lithuanian: “Alkamas”
  • Lombard: “Alcamo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alcamo”
  • Macedonian: “Алкамо”
  • Malay: “Alcamo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alcamo”
  • Neapolitan: “Alcamo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alcamo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alcamo”
  • Norwegian: “Alcamo”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “علقمه”
  • Persian: “الکامو”
  • Piemontese: “Alcamo”
  • Polish: “Alcamo”
  • Portuguese: “Alcamo”
  • Romanian: “Alcamo”
  • Russian: “Алькамо”
  • Sardinian: “Àlcamu”
  • Sardinian: “Àrcamu”
  • Scots: “Alcamo”
  • Serbian: “Алкамо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alcamo”
  • Sicilian: “Àlcamu”
  • Sicilian: “Àrcamu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “الکامو”
  • Spanish: “Alcamo”
  • Swahili: “Alcamo”
  • Swedish: “Alcamo”
  • Tagalog: “Alcamo”
  • Tatar: “Алькамо”
  • Turkish: “Alcamo”
  • Ukrainian: “Алькамо”
  • Uzbek: “Alcamo”
  • Venetian: “Alcamo”
  • Vietnamese: “Alcamo”
  • Volapük: “Alcamo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alcamo”
  • “Alcamo”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Alcamo”. Photo: Esculapio, CC BY-SA 3.0.