Central Italy
Abruzzo
L’Aquila

L’Aquila

L'Aquila is the capital of the province of the same name in the region of in and is located in the northern part of the province. It is a small, pleasant city that is surrounded by high mountains.
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  • Type: City with 69,800 residents
  • Description: Italian city, capital of the Abruzzo region and of the Province of L’Aquila
  • Also known as: “Aquila” and “Aquila degli Abruzzi”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include L’Aquila railway station and Piazza del Duomo.

Railway station
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L'Aquila railway station serves the city and comune of L'Aquila, in the region of , . Opened in 1875, it forms part of the Terni–Sulmona railway.

Square
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is a city square in L'Aquila, .

Museum
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The Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo is hosted in the Forte Spagnolo of L'Aquila. The Museum is on three floors: on the ground floor, there is the giant skeleton of an Archidiskon meridionalis found a few miles from Aquila in 1954, and an archeological section with…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pianola and Paganica.

Village
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is a small village near L'Aquila, in . It is situated in the at 726 m above sea level.

Village
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is a hillside town in the , in the region of southern Italy. located at 669 meters above sea level, at the foot of the Gran Sasso d'Italia, about 7 kilometers east of the historic center, along the state road 17 bis that…

Village
Photo: Pietro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a frazione of L'Aquila in the region of .

L’Aquila

Latitude
42.3489° or 42° 20′ 56″ north
Longitude
13.398° or 13° 23′ 53″ east
Population
69,800
Elevation
714 metres (2,343 feet)
IATA airport code
QAQ
United Nations Location Codes
IT LAQ and IT ZLS
Open location code
8FJM89XX+H5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 70990193
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3175121
Wiki­data ID
Q3476
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“L’Aquila” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “L’Aquila”
  • Albanian: “Lakvila”
  • Arabic: “لاكويلا”
  • Arabic: “لَكوِيلا”
  • Arabic: “لكويلة”
  • Arabic: “لَكوِيلة”
  • Aragonese: “L’Aquila”
  • Armenian: “Լ’Աքվիլա”
  • Asturian: “L’Aquila”
  • Azerbaijani: “L’Akuila”
  • Basque: “L’Aquila”
  • Belarusian: “Л’Акуіла”
  • Belarusian: “Л’Акуйла”
  • Bengali: “লাকুইলা”
  • Bosnian: “L’Aquila”
  • Breton: “L’Aquila”
  • Bulgarian: “Акуила”
  • Bulgarian: “Л’Акуила”
  • Catalan: “L’Aquila”
  • Cebuano: “L’Aquila”
  • Central Bikol: “L’Aquila”
  • Chechen: “Л’Акуила”
  • Chinese: “L’Aquila”
  • Chinese: “拉圭拉”
  • Chinese: “拉奎拉”
  • Croatian: “L’Aquila”
  • Czech: “L’Aquila”
  • Danish: “L’Aquila”
  • Dimli (individual language): “L’Aquila”
  • Dutch: “L’Aquila”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لاكويلا”
  • Esperanto: “L’Aquila”
  • Esperanto: “La Aglo”
  • Esperanto: “La-Aglo”
  • Estonian: “L’Aquila”
  • Finnish: “L’Aquila”
  • French: “L’Aquila”
  • Friulian: “L’Acuile”
  • Friulian: “La Acuile”
  • Galician: “L’Aquila”
  • Georgian: “ლ’აკვილა”
  • German: “L’Aquila”
  • Greek: “Λ‘ Άκουιλα”
  • Greek: “Λ’ Άκουιλα”
  • Greek: “Λ’Άκουιλα”
  • Gujarati: “લાક્વિલા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Â-khwuî-là”
  • Hakka Chinese: “L’Aquila”
  • Hebrew: “ל’אקווילה”
  • Hungarian: “L’Aquila”
  • Ido: “L’Aquila”
  • Indonesian: “L’Aquila”
  • Interlingua: “L’Aquila”
  • Irish: “L’Aquila”
  • Italian: “Aquila degli Abruzzi”
  • Italian: “Aquila”
  • Italian: “L’Aquila”
  • Japanese: “ラクイラ”
  • Javanese: “L’Aquila”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ ಅಕ್ವೀಲ”
  • Kazakh: “Л’Акуила”
  • Korean: “라퀼라”
  • Kurdish: “L’Aquila”
  • Ladin: “L’Aquila”
  • Latin: “Aquila”
  • Latin: “L’Aquila”
  • Latvian: “L’Akvila”
  • Latvian: “Lakvila”
  • Ligurian: “L’Àgogia”
  • Lithuanian: “L’Akvila”
  • Lombard: “L’Aquila”
  • Luxembourgish: “L’Aquila”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “L’Aquila”
  • Macedonian: “Л’Аквила”
  • Malay: “L’Aquila”
  • Maltese: “L’Aquila”
  • Marathi: “लाक्विला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “L’Aquila”
  • Mingrelian: “ლ’აკვილა”
  • Neapolitan: “L’Aquila”
  • Northern Frisian: “L’Aquila (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “L’Aquila”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “L’Aquila”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “L’Aquila”
  • Norwegian: “L’Aquila”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “L’Aquila”
  • Ossetian: “Л’Акуилæ”
  • Pampanga: “L’Aquila”
  • Persian: “لاکوئیلا”
  • Piemontese: “L’Àquila”
  • Polish: “L’Aquila”
  • Portuguese: “Áquila”
  • Romanian: “L’Aquila”
  • Russian: “Л’Аквила”
  • Russian: “Л’Акуила”
  • Sanskrit: “ला‘कुईला”
  • Sanskrit: “ला’कुईला”
  • Sardinian: “L’Aquila”
  • Scots: “L’Aquila”
  • Serbian: “Л’Аквила”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “L’Aquila”
  • Sicilian: “L’Aquila”
  • Silesian: “L’Aquila”
  • Sinhala: “ලකවිලා”
  • Slovak: “L’Aquila”
  • Slovenian: “Aquila degli Abruzzi”
  • Slovenian: “Aquila”
  • Slovenian: “L’Aquila”
  • Spanish: “L’Aquila”
  • Swahili: “L’Aquila”
  • Swedish: “L’Aquila”
  • Tagalog: “L’Aquila”
  • Tamil: “லா‘அக்கிலா”
  • Tatar: “Л’Акуила”
  • Telugu: “ఎల్‘ ఆక్వీలా”
  • Thai: “ลากวีลา”
  • Turkish: “L’Aquila”
  • Ukrainian: “Л’Аквіла”
  • Ukrainian: “Л’Акуїла”
  • Urdu: “ال اقویلا”
  • Urdu: “لاکوئیلا”
  • Uzbek: “L’Aquila”
  • Venetian: “L’Àcuiła”
  • Venetian: “Ł’Àcuiła”
  • Vietnamese: “L’Aquila”
  • Volapük: “L’Aquila”
  • Waray (Philippines): “L’Aquila”
  • Welsh: “L’Aquila”
  • Western Armenian: “Լ’Աքվիլա”
  • Western Frisian: “L’Akwila”
  • Western Frisian: “L’Aquila”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉奎拉”
  • Xhosa: “Ukhozi”
  • Yakut: “Аквила”
  • Yue Chinese: “拉圭拉”
  • “L’Aquila”

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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 “L’Aquila”. Photo: LIAP, Public domain.