Cortona
Cortona is a town in the Province of Arezzo, Tuscany. It was one of the twelve cities of the Etruscan League. At 600 metres elevation, it has magnificent panoramas to every point of the compass. It is not far from Arezzo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 22,500 residents
- Description: Italian town and comune
- Neighbors: Arezzo, Castiglion Fiorentino, Città di Castello, Montepulciano, and Umbertide
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cortona Cathedral and Diocesan Museum.
Cortona Cathedral
Church
Photo: Tetraktys, Public domain.
Cortona Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Cortona, Tuscany, central Italy, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It was the seat of the Bishops of Cortona from 1507 to 1986, and is now a co-cathedral in the present Diocese of Arezzo-Cortona-Sansepolcro.
Diocesan Museum
Museum
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Diocesan Museum in Cortona is an art museum in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy. Located on the former site of the local Church of Gesù, it houses works of art by artists such as Fra Angelico, Pietro Lorenzetti, Bartolomeo della Gatta, Luca Signorelli and Sassetta.
Camucia-Cortona train station
Railway station
Photo: Tr6637, Public domain.
Camucia-Cortona train station is a railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Camucia and Cegliolo.
Camucia
Village
Camucia is a small town in Tuscany in central Italy. It is a frazione of Cortona. Sitting at the base of the hill on which Cortona lies, it serves as the railway station for the historic town, on the main Florence - Rome line.
Cortona
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Val di Chiana, Arezzo, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
43.2753° or 43° 16′ 31″ northLongitude
11.9851° or 11° 59′ 6″ eastPopulation
22,500Elevation
494 metres (1,621 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT CO3Open location code
8FMH7XGP+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 61753390OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Cortona” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كورتونا”
- Armenian: “Կորտոնա”
- Azerbaijani: “Kortona”
- Basque: “Cortona”
- Belarusian: “Картона”
- Breton: “Cortona”
- Bulgarian: “Кортона”
- Catalan: “Cortona”
- Cebuano: “Cortona”
- Central Bikol: “Cortona”
- Chechen: “Кортона”
- Chinese: “Cortona”
- Chinese: “科尔托纳”
- Chinese: “科爾托納”
- Czech: “Cortona”
- Danish: “Cortona”
- Dutch: “Cortona”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كورتونا”
- Esperanto: “Cortona”
- Estonian: “Cortona”
- Faroese: “Cortona”
- Finnish: “Cortona”
- French: “Cortone”
- German: “Cortona”
- Greek: “Κορτόνα”
- Hebrew: “קורטונה”
- Hungarian: “Cortona”
- Icelandic: “Cortona”
- Indonesian: “Cortona”
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- Irish: “Cortona”
- Italian: “Cortona”
- Japanese: “コルトーナ”
- Kalaallisut: “Cortona”
- Kazakh: “Кортона”
- Korean: “코르토나”
- Kurdish: “Cortona”
- Ladin: “Cortona”
- Latin: “Cortona”
- Lithuanian: “Kortona”
- Lombard: “Cortona”
- Malay: “Cortona”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cortona”
- Narom: “Cortone”
- Neapolitan: “Cortona”
- Northern Frisian: “Cortona”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cortona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cortona”
- Norwegian: “Cortona”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cortona”
- Persian: “کورتونا”
- Piemontese: “Cortona”
- Polish: “Cortona”
- Portuguese: “Cortona”
- Romanian: “Cortona”
- Russian: “Кортона”
- Serbian: “Cortona”
- Serbian: “Кортона”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cortona”
- Sicilian: “Cortona”
- Slovenian: “Cortona”
- South Azerbaijani: “کورتونا”
- Spanish: “Cortona”
- Swahili: “Cortona”
- Swedish: “Cortona”
- Tagalog: “Cortona”
- Tatar: “Кортона”
- Turkish: “Cortona”
- Ukrainian: “Кортона”
- Uzbek: “Cortona”
- Venetian: “Cortona”
- Vietnamese: “Cortona”
- Volapük: “Cortona”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cortona”
- Wu Chinese: “科尔托纳”
- “Cortona”
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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 “Cortona”. Photo: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0.