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Porto Empedocle

Porto Empedocle is a port town close to the city of , in the in , .
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  • Type: Town with 15,500 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “Marina di Girgenti”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porto Empedocle railway station and Porto Empedocle Succursale train station.

Railway station
Photo: Pietrofattori, CC BY 2.0.

Railway station
Photo: Pietrofattori, CC BY 3.0.
is a railway station.

Archaeological site
Photo: Markos90, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an archaeological site, which is situated 3½ km west of Porto Empedocle.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agrigento and Villaseta.

Photo: Maroichi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
rises on a ridge above the sea, its honey-hued buildings unfolding across the hills like a sunlit amphitheatre. Behind it, vineyards and almond groves stretch inland; below it, the ancient Valley of the Temples spills toward the coast in a sweep of Doric grandeur.

Village
is a village in , part of the municipality of , with a population of roughly 6,300.

Village
Photo: Toni Pecoraro, Public domain.
is a seaside town and port South of . It rises on the Akragas point, near the mouth of the Akragas river. is situated 5 km southeast of Porto Empedocle.

Porto Empedocle

Latitude
37.2883° or 37° 17′ 18″ north
Longitude
13.5276° or 13° 31′ 39″ east
Population
15,500
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT PEM
Open location code
8F9M7GQH+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67253910
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2523705
Wiki­data ID
Q432311
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Porto Empedocle” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورتو إيمبيدوكلي”
  • Armenian: “Պորտո Էմպեդոկլե”
  • Basque: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Breton: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Bulgarian: “Порто Емпедокле”
  • Catalan: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Catalan: “Portu Empedocli”
  • Cebuano: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Chechen: “Порто-Эмпедокле”
  • Chinese: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Chinese: “恩佩多克莱港”
  • Chinese: “恩佩多克萊港”
  • Danish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Dutch: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Esperanto: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Finnish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • French: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Galician: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Georgian: “პორტო-ემპერდოკლე”
  • German: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Greek: “Πόρτο Εμπέντοκλε”
  • Hebrew: “פורטו אמפדוקלה”
  • Hungarian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Indonesian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Interlingua: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Irish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Italian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Italian: “Порто-Эмпедокле”
  • Japanese: “ポルト・エンペードクレ”
  • Kazakh: “Порт-Эмпедокле”
  • Kurdish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Ladin: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Latin: “Portus Empedocles”
  • Lombard: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Luxembourgish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Malay: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Neapolitan: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Persian: “پورتو امپدوکله”
  • Piemontese: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Polish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Romanian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Russian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Russian: “Порто-Эмпедокле”
  • Serbian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Serbian: “Порто Епедокле”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Sicilian: “Portu Empedocli”
  • Silesian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پورتو امپدوکله”
  • Spanish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Swedish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Tagalog: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Tatar: “Порт-Эмпедокле”
  • Turkish: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Ukrainian: “Порто-Емпедокле”
  • Uzbek: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Venetian: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Vietnamese: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Volapük: “Porto Empedocle”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Porto Empedocle”
  • “Puerte Empedocle”

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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 “Porto Empedocle”. Photo: Tiberio Frascari, CC BY-SA 2.0.