Southern Italy
Basilicata
Province of Potenza

Potenza

Potenza is a comune in the Southern region of . Capital of the and the region, the city is the highest regional capital and one of the highest provincial capitals in Italy, overlooking the valley of the river in the of Lucania, east of .
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  • Type: City with 67,100 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “Potenza (Italy)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Potenza Centrale railway station and Stadio Alfredo Viviani.

Railway station
, formerly known as Potenza Inferiore, is the main station serving the city and comune of Potenza, in the region of , .

Stadium
Photo: Xspace, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-use in Potenza, Italy. It is used mostly for association football matches and is the home ground of Potenza Calcio. The stadium holds 6,000 people.

Church
Photo: Carmar89, Public domain.
The Cathedral of San Gerardo is the main church or duomo of the city of Potenza, capital of the province of the same name, and of the region of , Italy. Since 1986 Potenza forms part of the archdiocese of "Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo".

Potenza

Latitude
40.6384° or 40° 38′ 18″ north
Longitude
15.8022° or 15° 48′ 8″ east
Population
67,100
Elevation
819 metres (2,687 feet)
IATA airport code
QPO
United Nations Location Code
IT QPO
Open location code
8FGQJRQ2+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 67280322
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3170027
Wiki­data ID
Q3543
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Potenza” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Potenca”
  • Arabic: “بتنسة”
  • Arabic: “بُتِنسة”
  • Arabic: “بوتنسا”
  • Aragonese: “Potencia (Italia)”
  • Aragonese: “Potencia”
  • Armenian: “Պոտենցա”
  • Asturian: “Potenza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Potensa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Potentsa”
  • Basque: “Potenza”
  • Belarusian: “Патэнца”
  • Bengali: “পোটেঞ্জা”
  • Bosnian: “Potenza”
  • Breton: “Potenza”
  • Bulgarian: “Потенца”
  • Catalan: “Potenza”
  • Cebuano: “Potenza”
  • Chechen: “Потенца”
  • Chinese: “Potenza”
  • Chinese: “波坦察”
  • Croatian: “Potenza”
  • Czech: “Potenza (Italy)”
  • Czech: “Potenza”
  • Danish: “Potenza”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Potenza”
  • Dutch: “Potenza”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوتنسا”
  • Esperanto: “Oppido Lucano”
  • Esperanto: “Potenco”
  • Esperanto: “Potenza”
  • Estonian: “Potenza”
  • Finnish: “Potenza”
  • French: “Potenza”
  • Galician: “Potenza”
  • Georgian: “პოტენცა”
  • German: “Potenza (Italy)”
  • German: “Potenza”
  • Greek: “Ποτέντσα”
  • Gujarati: “પોટેન્ઝા”
  • Hebrew: “פוטנצה”
  • Hindi: “पोटेंजा”
  • Hungarian: “Potenza”
  • Ido: “Potenza”
  • Inari Sami: “Potenza”
  • Indonesian: “Potenza”
  • Interlingua: “Potenza”
  • Irish: “Potenza”
  • Italian: “Potenza”
  • Japanese: “ポテンツァ”
  • Javanese: “Potenza”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಟೆನ್ಝ”
  • Kazakh: “Потенца”
  • Korean: “포텐차”
  • Kurdish: “Potenza”
  • Ladin: “Potenza”
  • Latin: “Potentia”
  • Latvian: “Potenca”
  • Ligurian: “Potensa”
  • Lithuanian: “Potenca”
  • Lombard: “Potenza”
  • Luxembourgish: “Potenza”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Potenza”
  • Macedonian: “Потенца”
  • Malay: “Potenza”
  • Marathi: “पोतेंझा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Potenza”
  • Mingrelian: “პოტენცა”
  • Moksha: “Потэнца”
  • Neapolitan: “Putenza”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Potenza”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Potenza”
  • Norwegian: “Potenza”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Potença”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Potenza”
  • Ossetian: “Потенцæ”
  • Pampanga: “Potenza”
  • Papiamento: “Potenza”
  • Persian: “پوتنتسا”
  • Persian: “پوتنزا”
  • Piemontese: “Potensa”
  • Polish: “Potenza”
  • Portuguese: “Potenza”
  • Quechua: “Potenza”
  • Romanian: “Potenza”
  • Russian: “Потенца”
  • Sanskrit: “पोतेंज़ा”
  • Sanskrit: “पोतेञ्जा”
  • Sardinian: “Potenza”
  • Scots: “Potenza”
  • Serbian: “Потенца”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Potenza”
  • Sicilian: “Putenza”
  • Silesian: “Potenza”
  • Sinhala: “පොටෙන්සා”
  • Slovak: “Potenza”
  • Slovenian: “Potenza”
  • Spanish: “Potenza”
  • Swahili: “Potenza”
  • Swedish: “Potenza”
  • Tagalog: “Potenza”
  • Tamil: “போதேன்சா”
  • Tatar: “Потенца”
  • Telugu: “పొటెన్జా”
  • Thai: “โปเตนซา”
  • Turkish: “Potenza”
  • Ukrainian: “Потенца”
  • Urdu: “پوتینتسا”
  • Venetian: “Potensa”
  • Vietnamese: “Potenza”
  • Volapük: “Potenza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Potenza”
  • Welsh: “Potenza”
  • Western Frisian: “Potenza”
  • Wu Chinese: “波坦察”
  • Xhosa: “Potenza (kumasipala)”
  • Xhosa: “Potenza”
  • Yue Chinese: “波坦察”
  • “Putènze”

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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 Wikipedia page “Potenza”. Photo: Norman1946, CC BY-SA 3.0.