Gerace
Gerace is a striking medieval hill town in the region of Calabria, perched on a sandstone plateau above the Ionian coast. Known for its remarkably preserved historic centre, Norman-era cathedral, and sweeping views over the Locride plain and sea, Gerace is one of southern Italy’s most atmospheric small towns.
- Village with about 2,350 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 500 metres (1,640 feet)
- …is also known as “080036”
- Description: Italian town
- Neighbors
Places of Interest
Highlights include Co-Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of Mary, Gerace and San Francesco.
Gerace
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Latitude
38.273° or 38° 16′ 23″ north
Longitude
16.2188° or 16° 13′ 8″ east
Open location code
8FCR76F9+5G
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Gerace” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غيراتشي”
- Aragonese: “Gerace”
- Armenian: “Ջերաչե”
- Basque: “Gerace”
- Breton: “Gerace”
- Bulgarian: “Джераче”
- Catalan: “Gerace”
- Cebuano: “Gerace”
- Central Bikol: “Gerace”
- Chechen: “Джераче”
- Chinese: “杰拉切”
- Dagbani: “wɔwara”
- Dutch: “Gerace”
- Esperanto: “Gerace”
- Farefare: “Wa’ara”
- French: “Gerace”
- German: “Gerace”
- Greek: “Γεράκι Καλαβρίας”
- Hungarian: “Gerace”
- Interlingua: “Gerace”
- Irish: “Gerace”
- Italian: “Comune di Gerace”
- Italian: “Gerace”
- Japanese: “ジェラーチェ”
- Kazakh: “Джераче”
- Kurdish: “Gerace”
- Ladin: “Gerace”
- Latin: “Hieracium”
- Lombard: “Gerace”
- Malay: “Gerace”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gerace”
- Neapolitan: “Gerace”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gerace”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gerace”
- Persian: “جراچه”
- Piemontese: “Gerace”
- Polish: “Gerace”
- Portuguese: “Gerace”
- Romanian: “Gerace”
- Russian: “Джераче”
- Serbian: “Gerace”
- Serbian: “Ђераче”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gerace, Reggio Calabria”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gerace”
- Sicilian: “Jeraci”
- Slovenian: “Gerace”
- South Azerbaijani: “جراچه”
- Spanish: “Gerace”
- Swedish: “Gerace”
- Tagalog: “Gerace”
- Tatar: “Джераче”
- Turkish: “Gerace”
- Ukrainian: “Джераче”
- Uzbek: “Gerace”
- Venetian: “Gerace”
- Volapük: “Gerace”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gerace”
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