Southern Italy
Apulia
Bari

Casamassima

Casamassima is a town in the province of in the Italian region called . It is well-known for its medieval hamlet, and increasingly identified with the name "Paese Azzurro", in English "Blue Town", a fairy tale-like place with walls of the houses all painted light blue.
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  • Type: Town with 19,900 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “072015” and “the blue town”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Casamassima railway station and Polish War Cemetery.

Railway station
Casamassima is a railway station in Casamassima, . The station is located on the Bari-Casamassima-Putignano railway. The train services and the railway infrastructure are operated by Ferrovie del Sud Est.

Cemetery
Photo: Luangiphoto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The at Casamassima was established in Casamassima, near Bari, in southern Italy, where there are about 431 graves of Polish soldiers and officers of the 2nd Polish Corps who died between 1944 and 1945.

Church
Photo: Ferdi2005, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Adelfia.

Town
is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari, , southern . The town is 18 km south of central Bari, and is a combination of two smaller towns, Montrone and Canneto. is situated 7 km northwest of Casamassima.

Casamassima

Latitude
40.9571° or 40° 57′ 26″ north
Longitude
16.9204° or 16° 55′ 13″ east
Population
19,900
Elevation
223 metres (732 feet)
Open location code
8FGRXW4C+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68528753
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6538942
Wiki­data ID
Q51819
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Casamassima” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كازاماسيما”
  • Armenian: “Կազամասիմա”
  • Basque: “Casamassima”
  • Belarusian: “Казамасіма”
  • Breton: “Casamassima”
  • Bulgarian: “Казамасима”
  • Catalan: “Casamassima”
  • Cebuano: “Casamassima”
  • Chechen: “Казамассима”
  • Chinese: “Casamassima”
  • Chinese: “卡萨马西马”
  • Dutch: “Casamassima”
  • Esperanto: “Casamassima”
  • French: “Casamassima”
  • French: “le pays bleu”
  • German: “Casamassima”
  • Hungarian: “Casamassima”
  • Interlingua: “Casamassima”
  • Irish: “Casamassima”
  • Italian: “Casamassima”
  • Italian: “Comune di Casamassima”
  • Italian: “il Paese Azzurro”
  • Japanese: “カザマッシマ”
  • Kazakh: “Казамассима”
  • Kurdish: “Casamassima”
  • Ladin: “Casamassima”
  • Latin: “Casa Maxima”
  • Latin: “Castra Maximi”
  • Ligurian: “Casamassima”
  • Lithuanian: “Kazamasina”
  • Lombard: “Casamassima”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Casamassima”
  • Malay: “Casamassima”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Casamassima”
  • Neapolitan: “Casamassima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Casamassima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Casamassima”
  • Persian: “کاساماسیما”
  • Piemontese: “Casamassima”
  • Polish: “Casamassima”
  • Portuguese: “Casamassima”
  • Romanian: “Casamassima”
  • Russian: “Казамассима”
  • Serbian: “Casamassima”
  • Serbian: “Казамасима”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Casamassima, Bari”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Casamassima”
  • Sicilian: “Casamassima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاساماسیما”
  • Spanish: “Casamassima”
  • Swedish: “Casamassima”
  • Tagalog: “Casamassima”
  • Tatar: “Казамассима”
  • Turkish: “Casamassima”
  • Ukrainian: “Казамассіма”
  • Uzbek: “Casamassima”
  • Venetian: “Casamassima”
  • Volapük: “Casamassima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Casamassima”
  • “Casamàsseme”
  • “Casamassima”

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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 “Casamassima”. Photo: Vitoronzo Petronelli, CC BY-SA 4.0.