Balestrate
Balestrate is a municipality of 6,500 people in Palermo Province, Sicily. Balestrate's population swells up to almost 30,000 during the summer season with vacationing Europeans and Italians from the colder climates seeking the warm water and sun.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 6,260 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Neighbors: Alcamo and Castellammare del Golfo
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balestrate railway station and Trappeto railway station.
Sanctuary of Madonna del Ponte
Church
Photo: Pugliesig, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The sanctuary of Madonna del Ponte is located on the SP 63, in the territory of Partinico, 3 or 4 km from the junction of Balestrate of the A29 motorway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alcamo Marina.
Alcamo Marina
Photo: Daniele Pugliesi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Alcamo Marina 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.
Balestrate
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.0519° or 38° 3′ 7″ northLongitude
13.0043° or 13° 0′ 15″ eastPopulation
6,260Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT ZDDOpen location code
8FCM3223+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 839191949OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Balestrate” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باليستراتي”
- Armenian: “Բալեստրատե”
- Basque: “Balestrate”
- Breton: “Balestrate”
- Bulgarian: “Балестрате”
- Catalan: “Balestrate”
- Cebuano: “Balestrate-Foce”
- Cebuano: “Balestrate”
- Chechen: “Балестрате”
- Chinese: “Balestrate”
- Chinese: “巴莱斯特拉泰”
- Chinese: “巴萊斯特拉泰”
- Dutch: “Balestrate”
- Esperanto: “Balestrate”
- French: “Balestrate”
- German: “Balestrate”
- Hungarian: “Balestrate”
- Interlingua: “Balestrate”
- Irish: “Balestrate”
- Italian: “Balestrate”
- Japanese: “バレストラーテ”
- Kazakh: “Balestrate”
- Kazakh: “Балестрате”
- Kazakh: “بالەستراتە”
- Kurdish: “Balestrate”
- Ladin: “Balestrate”
- Latin: “Balistratae”
- Latin: “Sicciaria”
- Lombard: “Balestrate”
- Luxembourgish: “Balestrate”
- Malay: “Balestrate”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Balestrate”
- Neapolitan: “Balestrate”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balestrate”
- Persian: “بالستراته”
- Piemontese: “Balestrate”
- Polish: “Balestrate”
- Portuguese: “Balestrate”
- Romanian: “Balestrate”
- Russian: “Балестрате”
- Sardinian: “Balestrate”
- Serbian: “Balestrate-Foce”
- Serbian: “Балестрате-Фоче”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balestrate-Foce, Palermo”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Balestrate-Foce”
- Sicilian: “Balestrate”
- Sicilian: “Balistrati”
- Sicilian: “La Sicciara”
- Sicilian: “Sicciara”
- Sicilian: “Sicciaroti”
- South Azerbaijani: “بالستراته”
- Spanish: “Balestrate”
- Swedish: “Balestrate”
- Tagalog: “Balestrate”
- Tatar: “Балестрате”
- Turkish: “Balestrate”
- Ukrainian: “Балестрате”
- Uzbek: “Balestrate”
- Uzbek: “Балестрате”
- Venetian: “Balestrate”
- Volapük: “Balestrate”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balestrate”
- “Balestrate”
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