Capo Colonna
Capo Colonna is a cape in Calabria located near Crotone. In ancient Roman times the promontory was called Promunturium Lacinium. The modern name derives from the remaining column of the Temple of Hera Lacinia.- Type: Suburb
- Description: cape in Crotone, Italy
- Also known as: “Promunturium Lacinium”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archaeological Museum of Capo Colonna and Temple of Juno Lacinia.
Temple of Juno Lacinia
Photo: revolweb, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Temple of Juno Lacinia is a ruined ancient Greek temple at the heart of a sanctuary dedicated to Hera located on Capo Colonna in Calabria, Italy, near Crotone.
Capo Colonne Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Salvatore Migliari, CC BY 3.0.
Capo Colonne Lighthouse is situated on the extremity of the Promunturium Lacinium, nearby the single column of the Greek temple elevated in honour of Hera Lacinia, at 9 kilometres from Crotone on the Ionian Sea.
Capo Colonna
- Categories: promontory and locality
- Location: Crotone, Province of Crotone, Calabria, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.02517° or 39° 1′ 31″ northLongitude
17.20101° or 17° 12′ 4″ eastOpen location code
8FFV26G2+3COpenStreetMap ID
node 1349029582OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q868332
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Capo Colonna” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كابو كولونا”
- Catalan: “Lacinium”
- Dutch: “Capo Colonna”
- French: “cap Colonna”
- French: “Cap Colonna”
- French: “Lacinion”
- German: “Capo Colonna”
- Greek: “Κάπο Κολόνα”
- Greek: “Λακίνιο Άκρο”
- Hungarian: “Colonna-fok”
- Irish: “Capo Colonna”
- Italian: “Capo Colonna”
- Italian: “Capocolonna”
- Italian: “Lacinia”
- Italian: “Promontorio Lacinio”
- Latin: “Lacinium”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Colonna”
- Portuguese: “Capo Colonna”
- Russian: “Капо-Колонна”
- Russian: “Колонне”
- Russian: “Лациний”
- Russian: “Лацинский мыс”
- Sicilian: “Capu Culonna”
- Slovenian: “Capo Colonna”
- Slovenian: “Lacinion”
- Slovenian: “Promontorio Lacinio”
- Slovenian: “promunturium Lacinium”
- Slovenian: “rt Colonna”
- Spanish: “cabo Colonna”
- Spanish: “Cabo Columna”
- Ukrainian: “Капо-Колонна”
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