Pantalica

The Necropolis of Pantalica is a collection of cemeteries with rock-cut chamber tombs in southeast , Italy. Dating from the 13th to the 7th centuries BC, it was thought that the site held over 5,000 tombs, although the most recent estimate suggests a figure of just under 4,000.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: necropolis
  • Also known as: “Necropoli di Pantalica”, “necropolis of Pantalica”, “Necropolis of Pantalica”, “Pantalica - Necropoli di Filiporto”, and “Tiny Tombs”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Anaktoron and Chiesa Madre San Giovanni Apostolo ed Evangelista.

Photo: Jorre, CC BY 3.0.

Church
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is a church.

Church
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is a church.

Pantalica

Latitude
37.1325° or 37° 7′ 57″ north
Longitude
15.0154° or 15° 0′ 55″ east
Elevation
509 metres (1,670 feet)
Open location code
8F9Q42M8+24
Open­Street­Map ID
way 218984839
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
7534692
Wiki­data ID
Q931434
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pantalica” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقبرة بنتارغة”
  • Arabic: “نكروبوليس بانتاليكا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pantalika nekropolu”
  • Basque: “Pantalicako nekropolia”
  • Catalan: “necròpolis de Pantalica”
  • Catalan: “Necròpolis de Pantalica”
  • Chinese: “潘塔立克大墓地”
  • Croatian: “Nekropola Pantalica”
  • Croatian: “Pantalica”
  • Czech: “Nekropole Pantalica”
  • Czech: “Pantalica”
  • Czech: “Skalní nekropole Pantalica”
  • Danish: “Necropoli di Pantalica”
  • Dutch: “rotsnecropolis van Pantalica”
  • Dutch: “Rotsnecropolis van Pantalica”
  • Esperanto: “Nekropolo de Pantalika”
  • Esperanto: “Nekropolo de Pantaliko”
  • Finnish: “Pantalica”
  • French: “Necropole de Pantalica”
  • French: “nécropole de Pantalica”
  • French: “Nécropole de Pantalica”
  • French: “Pantalica”
  • Galician: “Necrópole de Pantalica”
  • Georgian: “პანტალიკას ნეკროპოლი”
  • Georgian: “პანტალიკას ნეკროპოლისი”
  • German: “Nekropole von Pantalica”
  • German: “Pantalica”
  • Greek: “Νεκρόπολη της Παντάλικα”
  • Greek: “Παντάλικα”
  • Hebrew: “הנקרופוליס בפנטאליקה”
  • Hebrew: “הנקרופוליס בפנטליקה”
  • Hindi: “पेंटालिका के नेक्रोपोलिस”
  • Hungarian: “Pantalica nekropolisza”
  • Italian: “necropoli rupestri di Pantalica”
  • Italian: “Pantalica”
  • Japanese: “パンターリカの岩壁墓地遺跡”
  • Japanese: “パンタリーカ墳墓群”
  • Latvian: “Pantalikas nekropole”
  • Lithuanian: “Pantalikos nekropolis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Necropolis i Pantalica”
  • Norwegian: “Necropolis i Pantalica”
  • Persian: “گورستان پانتالیکا”
  • Polish: “Skalna nekropolia w Pantalica”
  • Portuguese: “Necrópole Rochosa de Pantalica”
  • Russian: “Некрополь Панталика”
  • Russian: “Панталика”
  • Serbian: “Некропола Панталика”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pantalica”
  • Sicilian: “Pantalica”
  • Sicilian: “Pantàlica”
  • Slovak: “Skalná nekropola Pantalica”
  • Slovenian: “nekropola Pantalika”
  • Slovenian: “Nekropola Pantalika”
  • Slovenian: “Pantalika”
  • Spanish: “Necropolis de Pantalica”
  • Spanish: “Necrópolis de Pantalica”
  • Spanish: “Necrópolis de Pantálica”
  • Spanish: “Pantalica”
  • Swedish: “Pantalica”
  • Turkish: “Pantalica Nekropolü”
  • Ukrainian: “Некрополь Панталіка”
  • Vietnamese: “Nghĩa địa của Pantalica”

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