Basilicata
Province of Matera
Bernalda

Metaponto

Metaponto is a small town of about 1,000 people in the , , . Administratively it is a frazione of .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Metapontum and Metaponto railway station.

Photo: Asia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Metapontium was an ancient city of Magna Graecia, situated on the gulf of , between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus. It was distant about 20 km from and 40 from Tarentum.

Railway station
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Metaponto is a railway station in Metaponto, . The station is located on the Taranto–Reggio di Calabria railway and Battipaglia–Metaponto railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.

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

Metaponto

Latitude
40.3741° or 40° 22′ 27″ north
Longitude
16.8101° or 16° 48′ 36″ east
Population
705
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8FGR9RF6+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1706829847
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3173519
Wiki­data ID
Q18428693
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Metaponto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميتابونتو”
  • Basque: “Metaponto”
  • Catalan: “Metaponto”
  • Cebuano: “Metaponto”
  • Chechen: “Метапонто (Матера)”
  • Chechen: “Метапонто”
  • Chinese: “梅塔蓬托”
  • Czech: “Metaponto”
  • Danish: “Metaponto”
  • Dutch: “Metaponto”
  • Finnish: “Metaponto”
  • French: “Metaponto”
  • German: “Metaponto”
  • Greek: “Μεταπόντο”
  • Hebrew: “מטפונטו”
  • Indonesian: “Metaponto”
  • Italian: “Metaponto”
  • Japanese: “メタポント”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Metaponto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Metaponto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Metaponto”
  • Polish: “Metaponto”
  • Portuguese: “Metaponto”
  • Romanian: “Metaponto”
  • Russian: “Метапонто”
  • Serbian: “Metaponto”
  • Serbian: “Метапонто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Metaponto, Matera”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Metaponto”
  • Slovak: “Metaponto”
  • Slovenian: “Metaponto”
  • Spanish: “Metaponto”
  • Swedish: “Metaponto”
  • Tagalog: “Metaponto”
  • Tatar: “Метапонто (Матера)”
  • Tatar: “Метапонто”
  • Turkish: “Metaponto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Metaponto”

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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 Wikipedia page “Metaponto”. Photo: Σπάρτακος, CC BY-SA 3.0.