Southern Italy
Basilicata
Province of Matera

Craco

Craco is a town in the , . It was abandoned towards the end of the 20th century due to natural disasters. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location.
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  • Type: Locality with 707 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “077007” and “Craco Vecchia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Torre normanna.

Ruins
Photo: Giacomo Resta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a ruins.

Craco

Latitude
40.3784° or 40° 22′ 42″ north
Longitude
16.4397° or 16° 26′ 23″ east
Population
707
Elevation
338 metres (1,109 feet)
Open location code
8FGR9CHQ+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12358282884
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
6537645
Wiki­data ID
Q52285
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Craco” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كراكو”
  • Armenian: “Կրակո”
  • Azerbaijani: “Krako”
  • Basque: “Craco”
  • Breton: “Craco”
  • Bulgarian: “Крако”
  • Catalan: “Craco”
  • Cebuano: “Craco”
  • Chechen: “Крако”
  • Chinese: “Craco”
  • Chinese: “克拉科”
  • Czech: “Craco”
  • Danish: “Craco”
  • Dutch: “Craco”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كراكو”
  • Esperanto: “Craco”
  • Estonian: “Craco”
  • Finnish: “Craco”
  • French: “Craco”
  • German: “Craco”
  • Hebrew: “Craco”
  • Hebrew: “קראקו”
  • Hungarian: “Craco”
  • Indonesian: “Craco”
  • Interlingua: “Craco”
  • Irish: “Craco”
  • Italian: “Comune di Craco”
  • Italian: “Craco”
  • Japanese: “クラーコ”
  • Kazakh: “Крако”
  • Kurdish: “Craco”
  • Ladin: “Craco”
  • Latin: “Cracum”
  • Latin: “Graculum”
  • Latvian: “Krako”
  • Lithuanian: “Krakas”
  • Lombard: “Craco”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Craco”
  • Malay: “Craco”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Craco”
  • Neapolitan: “Craco”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Craco”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Craco”
  • Norwegian: “Craco”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Craco”
  • Persian: “کراکو”
  • Piemontese: “Craco”
  • Polish: “Craco”
  • Portuguese: “Craco”
  • Romanian: “Craco”
  • Russian: “Крако”
  • Serbian: “Крако”
  • Sicilian: “Cracu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کراکو (کومونه)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کراکو”
  • Spanish: “Craco”
  • Swedish: “Craco”
  • Tagalog: “Craco”
  • Tatar: “Крако”
  • Turkish: “Craco”
  • Ukrainian: “Крако”
  • Venetian: “Craco”
  • Volapük: “Craco”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Craco”
  • Western Armenian: “Քրաքօ”
  • “Craco”

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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 “Craco”. Photo: Andrea Tomassi, CC BY-SA 2.0.