Policoro
Policoro is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. With some 18,000 inhabitants, is bounded by the towns of Rotondella, Scanzano Jonico and Tursi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 17,300 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “077021” and “Heraclea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Heraclea and Policoro-Tursi railway station.
Heraclea
Archaeological site
Photo: Una giornata uggiosa ‘94, CC BY 3.0.
Heraclea, also Heracleia or Herakleia, was an ancient city. It was situated on the Gulf of Taranto between the rivers Aciris and Siris. The ruins of the city are located in the modern comune of Policoro in the Province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy.
Maria Santissima del Ponte
Church
Photo: Magnolia77, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maria Santissima del Ponte is a church.
Policoro
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Province of Matera, Basilicata, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
40.2105° or 40° 12′ 38″ northLongitude
16.6764° or 16° 40′ 35″ eastPopulation
17,300Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open location code
8FGR6M6G+5HOpenStreetMap ID
node 67280416OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6541279Wikidata ID
Q52327
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Policoro” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوليكورو”
- Armenian: “Պոլիկորո”
- Basque: “Policoro”
- Belarusian: “Палікора”
- Breton: “Policoro”
- Bulgarian: “Поликоро”
- Catalan: “Policoro”
- Cebuano: “Policoro”
- Chechen: “Поликоро”
- Chinese: “Policoro”
- Chinese: “波利科罗”
- Croatian: “Policoro”
- Czech: “Policoro”
- Danish: “Policoro”
- Dutch: “Policoro”
- Esperanto: “Policoro”
- Estonian: “Policoro”
- French: “Policoro”
- German: “Policoro”
- Greek: “Πολικόρο”
- Hebrew: “פוליקורו”
- Hungarian: “Policoro”
- Indonesian: “Policoro”
- Interlingua: “Policoro”
- Irish: “Policoro”
- Italian: “Comune di Policoro”
- Italian: “Policoro”
- Japanese: “ポリコーロ”
- Javanese: “Policoro”
- Kazakh: “Поликоро”
- Kurdish: “Policoro”
- Ladin: “Policoro”
- Latin: “Polychorium”
- Lombard: “Policoro”
- Malay: “Policoro”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Policoro”
- Neapolitan: “Policoro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Policoro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Policoro”
- Persian: “پولیکورو”
- Piemontese: “Policoro”
- Polish: “Policoro”
- Portuguese: “Policoro”
- Romanian: “Policoro”
- Russian: “Гераклея”
- Russian: “Поликоро”
- Serbian: “Policoro”
- Serbian: “Поликоро”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Policoro”
- Sicilian: “Policoru”
- Slovak: “Policoro”
- Slovenian: “Policoro”
- South Azerbaijani: “پولیکورو”
- Spanish: “Policoro”
- Swedish: “Policoro”
- Tagalog: “Policoro”
- Tatar: “Поликоро”
- Turkish: “Policoro”
- Ukrainian: “Полікоро”
- Uzbek: “Policoro”
- Venetian: “Policoro”
- Volapük: “Policoro”
- Waray (Philippines): “Policoro”
- “Policoro”
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