Molfetta
Molfetta is a town in the province of Bari in the Italian region of Apulia. The city has always had a strong bond with the sea and with the other cities of the Mediterranean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 59,900 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Neighbors: Bisceglie, Bitonto, Giovinazzo, and Ruvo di Puglia
Places of Interest
Highlights include Molfetta Cathedral and Molfetta railway station.
Molfetta Cathedral
Church
Molfetta Cathedral, otherwise the Church of the Assumption and of Saint Ignatius Loyola, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Molfetta, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint Ignatius Loyola.
Molfetta railway station
Railway station
Molfetta is a railway station serving Molfetta, in the region of Apulia, southern Italy. The station lies on the Adriatic railway, and is serviced by Trenitalia trains.
Molfetta Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Molfetta Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on the elbow of the east pier of the harbour of Molfetta, in Apulia on the Adriatic Sea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Giovinazzo.
Giovinazzo
Giovinazzo is a small town in Apulia located on the south eastern coast of the Italian peninsula. It is located 18 km from Bari and 3.5 km from Molfetta.
Molfetta
- Categories: city, commune of Italy, and locality
- Location: Bari, Apulia, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
41.1992° or 41° 11′ 57″ northLongitude
16.5968° or 16° 35′ 49″ eastPopulation
59,900Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT MOLOpen location code
8FHR5HXW+MPOpenStreetMap ID
node 68528668OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Xhosa—“Molfetta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ملبنت”
- Arabic: “ملفنت”
- Arabic: “مولفتا”
- Arabic: “مولفيتا”
- Aragonese: “Molfetta”
- Armenian: “Մոլֆետա”
- Asturian: “Molfetta”
- Azerbaijani: “Molfetta”
- Basque: “Molfetta”
- Belarusian: “Мальфета”
- Breton: “Molfetta”
- Bulgarian: “Молфета”
- Catalan: “Molfetta”
- Cebuano: “Molfetta”
- Chechen: “Мольфетта”
- Chinese: “Molfetta”
- Chinese: “莫尔费塔”
- Chinese: “莫爾費塔”
- Czech: “Molfetta”
- Danish: “Molfetta”
- Dimli (individual language): “Molfetta”
- Dutch: “Molfetta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مولفتا”
- Esperanto: “Molfetta”
- Finnish: “Molfetta”
- French: “Molfetta”
- German: “Molfetta”
- Greek: “Μολφέττα”
- Hungarian: “Molfetta”
- Indonesian: “Molfetta”
- Interlingua: “Molfetta”
- Irish: “Molfetta”
- Italian: “Molfetta”
- Japanese: “モルフェッタ”
- Kazakh: “Мольфетта”
- Korean: “몰페타”
- Kurdish: “Molfetta”
- Ladin: “Molfetta”
- Latin: “Locus Melficanum”
- Latin: “Melfa”
- Latin: “Melphicta”
- Latin: “Melphictum”
- Latin: “Respa”
- Latvian: “Molfeta”
- Lithuanian: “Molfeta”
- Lombard: “Molfetta”
- Luxembourgish: “Molfetta”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Molfetta”
- Macedonian: “Молфета”
- Malay: “Molfetta”
- Maltese: “Molfetta”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Molfetta”
- Neapolitan: “Molfetta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Molfetta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Molfetta”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Molfetta”
- Ossetian: “Мольфеттæ”
- Persian: “مولفتا”
- Piemontese: “Molfetta”
- Polish: “Molfetta”
- Portuguese: “Molfetta”
- Romanian: “Molfetta”
- Russian: “Молфетта”
- Russian: “Мольфетта”
- Sanskrit: “मोल्फेत्ता”
- Scots: “Molfetta”
- Serbian: “Molfetta”
- Serbian: “Молфета”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Molfetta, Bari”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Molfetta”
- Sicilian: “Molfetta”
- Sicilian: “Mulfetta”
- Silesian: “Molfetta”
- Slovak: “Molfetta”
- Slovenian: “Molfetta”
- South Azerbaijani: “مولفتا”
- Spanish: “Molfetta”
- Swahili: “Molfetta”
- Swedish: “Molfetta”
- Tagalog: “Molfetta”
- Tatar: “Мольфетта”
- Turkish: “Molfetta”
- Ukrainian: “Молфетта”
- Ukrainian: “Мольфета”
- Ukrainian: “Мольфетта”
- Urdu: “مولفیتا”
- Venetian: “Molfetta”
- Vietnamese: “Molfetta”
- Volapük: “Molfetta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Molfetta”
- Wu Chinese: “莫尔费塔”
- Xhosa: “Molfetta”
- “Molfetta”
- “Molfette”
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