Kamarina
Kamarina is an ancient archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily, near modern-day Scoglitti. Once a powerful Greek colony, it was founded by Syracuse in 599 BC and played a key role in the island's turbulent classical history.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city on the southern coast of Sicily
- Also known as: “Kamarina, Sicily”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kamarina Regional Archaeological Museum and Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola.
Kamarina Regional Archaeological Museum
Museum
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The regional archaeological museum of Kamarina is in the vicinity of Scoglitti in the Libero consorzio comunale di Ragusa and consists of three pavilions and seven rooms exhibition.
Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola
Church
Photo: MdeVicente, CC0.
Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Scoglitti.
Scoglitti
Village
Photo: GiuseppeFranchina, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scoglitti is a fishing village and hamlet of Vittoria, a municipality in the Province of Ragusa, Sicily, Italy. In 2011 it had a population of 4,175.
Kamarina
- Categories: polis, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Ragusa, Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.8735° or 36° 52′ 25″ northLongitude
14.4455° or 14° 26′ 44″ eastElevation
23 metres (75 feet)Open location code
8F8PVCFW+95OpenStreetMap ID
node 3539751036OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Ukrainian—“Kamarina” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καμάρινα”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καμαρίνη”
- Arabic: “كامارينا”
- Basque: “Camarina”
- Catalan: “Camarina”
- Chinese: “卡馬利納”
- Dutch: “Kamarina”
- Esperanto: “Kamarino”
- Finnish: “Kamarina”
- French: “Camarina”
- French: “Camarine”
- German: “Camarina”
- German: “Camerina”
- German: “Kamarina”
- Greek: “Καμάρινα Σικελίας”
- Greek: “Καμάρινα”
- Hebrew: “קמארינה”
- Hungarian: “Kamarína”
- Indonesian: “Kamarina, Sisilia”
- Indonesian: “Kamarina”
- Italian: “Camarina”
- Italian: “Kamarina”
- Italian: “Museo Archeologico Regionale di Kamarina”
- Italian: “Rovine di Kamarina”
- Japanese: “カマリーナ (シチリア)”
- Japanese: “カマリナ”
- Korean: “카마리나”
- Latin: “Camarina”
- Latvian: “Kamarina”
- Polish: “Kamarina”
- Portuguese: “Camarina”
- Portuguese: “Kamarina”
- Russian: “Камарина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kamarina”
- Sicilian: “Camarina”
- Sicilian: “Kamarina”
- Slovenian: “Kamarina, Sicilija”
- Slovenian: “Kamarina”
- Spanish: “Camarina”
- Swedish: “Camarina”
- Ukrainian: “Камарина”
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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 “Kamarina”. Photo: AntonioMancaniello, CC BY-SA 4.0.