Southern Italy
Apulia
Lecce

Otranto

Otranto is a town of about 5,500 people in the region of , on the Adriatic coast of Salento peninsula. It is the easternmost town of Italy.
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  • Type: Town with 5,280 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “075057”, “Hydruntum”, and “Hydrus”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Otranto railway station and Otranto Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Phil Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Otranto is a railway station in Otranto, . The station is located on the Lecce–Otranto railway. The train services and the railway infrastructure are operated by Ferrovie del Sud Est.

Church
Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY 2.5.
is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Italian city of Otranto, dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. It is the archiepiscopal seat of the Archdiocese of Otranto.

Archaeological site
Photo: Ingo Kuebler, CC BY 3.0.
is an archaeological site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cape Otranto and Casamassella.

Locality
Photo: Gabbiano64, Public domain.
Cape Palascìa, commonly known as Capo d'Otranto, is 's most easterly point. It is situated in the territory of the city of Otranto, in the at 40° 7' northing and 18° 31' easting. is situated 5 km southeast of Otranto.

Hamlet
Photo: Lupiae, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet, which is situated 5 km southwest of Otranto.

Otranto

Latitude
40.1457° or 40° 8′ 44″ north
Longitude
18.4908° or 18° 29′ 27″ east
Population
5,280
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8FGW4FWR+78
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68529917
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6541266
Wiki­data ID
Q52174
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Otranto” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Otranto”
  • Arabic: “أوترانت”
  • Arabic: “أوترانتو”
  • Armenian: “Օտրանտո”
  • Basque: “Otranto”
  • Belarusian: “Атранта, муніцыпалітэт”
  • Belarusian: “Атранта”
  • Belarusian: “Отранта”
  • Breton: “Otranto”
  • Bulgarian: “Отранто”
  • Catalan: “Hidrunt”
  • Catalan: “Òtranto”
  • Cebuano: “Otranto”
  • Chechen: “Отранто”
  • Chinese: “Otranto”
  • Chinese: “奥特朗托”
  • Chinese: “奧特朗托”
  • Chuvash: “Отранто”
  • Czech: “Otranto”
  • Danish: “Otranto”
  • Dutch: “Otranto”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوترانتو”
  • Esperanto: “Otranto”
  • French: “Otrante”
  • German: “Otranto”
  • Greek: “Οτράντο”
  • Hebrew: “אוטרנטו”
  • Hungarian: “Otranto”
  • Indonesian: “Otranto”
  • Interlingua: “Otranto”
  • Irish: “Otranto”
  • Italian: “Comune di Otranto”
  • Italian: “Otranto”
  • Japanese: “オトラント”
  • Kazakh: “Отранто”
  • Korean: “오트란토”
  • Kurdish: “Otranto”
  • Ladin: “Otranto”
  • Latin: “Hydruntum”
  • Latin: “Hydrus”
  • Lithuanian: “Otrantas”
  • Lombard: “Otranto”
  • Malay: “Otranto”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Otranto”
  • Neapolitan: “Otrant”
  • Neapolitan: “Otranto”
  • Nepali: “ओट्रान्टो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Otranto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Otranto”
  • Norwegian: “Otranto”
  • Persian: “اوترانتو، آیووا”
  • Persian: “اوترانتو”
  • Piemontese: “Otranto”
  • Polish: “Otranto”
  • Portuguese: “Otranto”
  • Romanian: “Otranto”
  • Russian: “Отранто”
  • Serbian: “Отранто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Otranto”
  • Sicilian: “Ontrantu (LE)”
  • Sicilian: “Ontrantu”
  • Sicilian: “Otranto (LE)”
  • Sicilian: “Otranto”
  • Sicilian: “Otrantu (LE)”
  • Sicilian: “Utrantu (LE)”
  • Sicilian: “Utràntu (LE)”
  • Sicilian: “Utrantu”
  • Slovenian: “Otranto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوترانتو”
  • Spanish: “Otranto”
  • Swedish: “Otranto”
  • Tagalog: “Otranto”
  • Tatar: “Отранто”
  • Turkish: “Otranto”
  • Ukrainian: “Отранто”
  • Urdu: “اوٹرانٹو”
  • Uzbek: “Otranto”
  • Venetian: “Otranto”
  • Volapük: “Otranto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Otranto”
  • Welsh: “Otranto”
  • Western Frisian: “Otranto”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوٹرانٹو”
  • Wu Chinese: “奥特朗托”
  • “Otranto”

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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 “Otranto”. Photo: MatthiasKabel, CC BY-SA 3.0.