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Positano

Positano is a small picturesque town with splendid coastal views, on the famous in , . The town itself is perched on an enclave on the face of a hill and winds down towards the waters of the Amalfi Coast.
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  • Type: Village with 3,880 residents
  • Description: Italian commune
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Santuario di San Michele Arcangelo and San Gennaro.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 3½ km north of Positano.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 3½ km southeast of Positano.

Peak
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is a mountain in the , a small mountain range chain in the Pre-Apennines, on the Sorrentine Peninsula of southwestern . is situated 4½ km north of Positano.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Praiano and Furore.

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is in , Italy. It's a part of the world-famous , a really beautiful and quiet place. There are dozens of hotels on the steep cliffs.

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is a village of about 800 people on the . It overlooks the beautiful "Fjord of Furore", a narrow body of water located at the mouth of an overhanging valley.

Town
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is a coastal town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in southern Italy. is situated 6 km northwest of Positano.

Positano

Latitude
40.6287° or 40° 37′ 43″ north
Longitude
14.4855° or 14° 29′ 8″ east
Population
3,880
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT POS
Open location code
8FGPJFHP+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68582404
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3170051
Wiki­data ID
Q81345
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Positano” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بسطانة”
  • Arabic: “بوسيتانو”
  • Armenian: “Պոզիտանո”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pozitano”
  • Basque: “Positano”
  • Belarusian: “Пазітана”
  • Breton: “Positano”
  • Bulgarian: “Позитано”
  • Catalan: “Positano”
  • Cebuano: “Positano”
  • Chechen: “Позитано”
  • Chinese: “Positano”
  • Chinese: “波西塔诺”
  • Chinese: “波西塔諾”
  • Czech: “Positano”
  • Danish: “Positano”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Positano”
  • Dutch: “Positano”
  • Esperanto: “Positano”
  • Estonian: “Positano vald”
  • Finnish: “Positano”
  • French: “Positano”
  • Galician: “Positano”
  • Georgian: “პოზიტანო”
  • German: “Positano”
  • Greek: “Ποζιτάνο”
  • Hebrew: “פוזיטאנו”
  • Hebrew: “פוזיטנו”
  • Hungarian: “Positano”
  • Indonesian: “Positano”
  • Interlingua: “Positano”
  • Irish: “Positano”
  • Italian: “Positano”
  • Japanese: “ポジターノ”
  • Kazakh: “Позитано”
  • Korean: “포시타노”
  • Kurdish: “Positano”
  • Ladin: “Positano”
  • Latin: “Pausitanum”
  • Latin: “Posidianum”
  • Lithuanian: “Positanas”
  • Lombard: “Positano”
  • Luxembourgish: “Positano”
  • Malay: “Positano”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Positano”
  • Neapolitan: “Pusitano”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Positano”
  • Norwegian: “Positano”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Positano”
  • Persian: “پوزیتانو”
  • Piemontese: “Positano”
  • Polish: “Positano”
  • Portuguese: “Positano”
  • Romanian: “Positano”
  • Russian: “Позитано”
  • Serbian: “Позитано”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Positano”
  • Sicilian: “Positanu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پوزیتانو”
  • Spanish: “Positano”
  • Swedish: “Positano”
  • Tagalog: “Positano”
  • Tatar: “Позитано”
  • Thai: “โปซีตาโน”
  • Turkish: “Positano”
  • Ukrainian: “Позітано”
  • Uzbek: “Positano”
  • Venetian: “Positano”
  • Vietnamese: “Positano”
  • Volapük: “Positano”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Positano”
  • “Positano”

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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 “Positano”. Photo: Meho29, CC BY-SA 4.0.