Capo di Ponte
Capo di Ponte is the cultural heart of in Val Camonica, a wide Alpine valley in Lombardy, northern Italy. This small, quiet town is one of Europe’s most extraordinary prehistoric sites: it sits at the centre of the Val Camonica Rock Art, a vast collection of over 140,000 petroglyphs carved into sandstone over thousands of years.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Laurom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality with 2,450 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “017035”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bedolina Map and National Park of Rock Engravings of Naquane.
Bedolina Map
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The Bedolina Map is a famous engraved prehistoric rock which is part of the Camonica Valley petroglyph complex. It is known as one of the most ancient topographic maps, interpreted as a depiction of cultivated plots, mountain paths and villages.
National Park of Rock Engravings of Naquane
Archaeological site
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National Park of Rock Engravings of Naquane is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nadro and Cemmo.
Nadro
Village
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Nadro is an Italian hamlet of the comune of Ceto, Lombardy. It has 655 inhabitants. It lies 75 km from Brescia, along the strada Statale 42 del Tonale e della Mendola and is situated in Val Camonica.
Cemmo
Village
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Cemmo, is a frazione of Capo di Ponte, located right of river Oglio, beneath the Concarena. It was one of the first settlements in Val Camonica, as it can be deduced from the numerous rock drawings that have been found here; nowadays it has a population of about 600.
Capo di Ponte
- Category: comune of Italy
- Location: Province of Brescia, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Capo di Ponte” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կապո դի Պոնտե”
- Basque: “Capo di Ponte”
- Breton: “Capo di Ponte”
- Bulgarian: “Капо ди Понте”
- Catalan: “Capo di Ponte”
- Cebuano: “Capo di Ponte”
- Chechen: “Капо-ди-Понте”
- Chinese: “卡波迪蓬特”
- Dutch: “Capo di Ponte”
- Esperanto: “Capo di Ponte”
- Finnish: “Capo di Ponte”
- French: “Capo di Ponte”
- German: “Capo di Ponte”
- Greek: “Κάπο ντι Πόντε”
- Hebrew: “קאפו די פונטה”
- Hungarian: “Capo di Ponte”
- Interlingua: “Capo di Ponte”
- Irish: “Capo di Ponte”
- Italian: “Capo di Ponte”
- Italian: “Comune di Capo di Ponte”
- Japanese: “カーポ・ディ・ポンテ”
- Kazakh: “Капо-ди-Понте”
- Kurdish: “Capo di Ponte”
- Ladin: “Capo di Ponte”
- Latin: “Capite Pontis Cemmi”
- Latin: “Caput Pontis Cemmi”
- Ligurian: “Capo di Ponte”
- Lombard: “Co de Put”
- Malay: “Capo di Ponte”
- Neapolitan: “Capo di Ponte”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Capo di Ponte”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Capo di Ponte”
- Persian: “کاپو دی پونته”
- Piemontese: “Capo di Ponte”
- Polish: “Capo di Ponte”
- Portuguese: “Capo di Ponte”
- Romanian: “Capo di Ponte”
- Russian: “Капо-ди-Понте”
- Serbian: “Capo di Ponte”
- Serbian: “Капо ди Понте”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Capo di Ponte, Brescia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Capo di Ponte”
- Sicilian: “Capo di Ponte”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاپو دی پونته”
- Spanish: “Capo di Ponte”
- Swedish: “Capo di Ponte”
- Tagalog: “Capo di Ponte”
- Tatar: “Капо-ди-Понте”
- Turkish: “Capo di Ponte”
- Ukrainian: “Капо-ді-Понте”
- Urdu: “کاپو ڈی پونٹے”
- Uzbek: “Capo di Ponte”
- Venetian: “Capo di Ponte”
- Vietnamese: “Capo di Ponte”
- Volapük: “Capo di Ponte”
- Waray (Philippines): “Capo di Ponte”
- “Capo di Ponte”
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