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.- Type: Village with 6,260 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Balistrati”, “La Sicciara”, “Sicciaria”, and “Sicciaroti”
- Neighbors: Alcamo and Castellammare del Golfo
Places of Interest
Highlights: Balestrate railway station and Trappeto railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alcamo Marina.
Balestrate
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.0519° or 38° 3′ 7″ north
Longitude
13.0043° or 13° 0′ 15″ east
Population
6,260
Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IT ZDD
Open location code
8FCM3223+PP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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”
- Chechen: “Балестрате”
- 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”
- 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: “Sicciara”
- South Azerbaijani: “بالستراته”
- Spanish: “Balestrate”
- Swedish: “Balestrate”
- Tagalog: “Balestrate”
- Tatar: “Балестрате”
- Turkish: “Balestrate”
- Ukrainian: “Балестрате”
- Uzbek: “Balestrate”
- Venetian: “Balestrate”
- Volapük: “Balestrate”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balestrate”
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