Porta Sirena
Porta Sirena is a city gate in Capaccio Paestum, Salerno, Campania. Porta Sirena is situated nearby to the railway station Paestum, as well as near the museum Museo Materiali Minimi d’Arte Contemporanea.Photo: MiguelHermoso, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Paestum and Paestum railway station.
Paestum
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Paestum has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1998. It is in Campania, Italy, and is an ancient Greek settlement, with the best preserved Greek doric temples worldwide. It is surrounded by a Roman city wall, and is 40 km south of the city of Salerno.
Paestum railway station
Railway station
Paestum station is a train station in Italy of the Salerno–Reggio di Calabria railway located near the Paestum archaeological site and about one kilometre from the National Archaeological Museum of Paestum, in the municipality of Capaccio Paestum. Paestum railway station is situated 110 metres east of Porta Sirena.
National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
Museum
Photo: Liberotag73, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Archaeological Museum of Paestum is a museum in Capaccio-Paestum, Salerno, southern Italy that houses archaeological finds from excavations of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia/Paistom, then Paestum. National Archaeological Museum of Paestum is situated 560 metres west of Porta Sirena.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Venere and Rettifilo/Vannulo.
Rettifilo/Vannulo
Hamlet
Photo: Liberotag73, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rettifilo/Vannulo is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km north of Porta Sirena.
Capaccio Scalo
Hamlet
Photo: Liberotag73, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Capaccio Scalo is a hamlet, which is situated 4 km north of Porta Sirena.
Porta Sirena
- Type: City gate
- Description: building in Capaccio, Italy
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Capaccio Paestum, Salerno, Campania, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.42164° or 40° 25′ 18″ northLongitude
15.01358° or 15° 0′ 49″ eastOpen location code
8FGQC2C7+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 4005110572OpenStreetMap feature
historic=city_gateWikidata ID
Q28000651
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In Other Languages
From Italian to Turkish—“Porta Sirena” goes by many names.
- Italian: “Porta Sirena”
- Turkish: “Sirena Kapısı”
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