Southern Italy
Campania
Salerno

Salerno

Salerno is a city in , . It is a lively port town, with a relaxing and open Mediterranean atmosphere. Worth a visit also is the Historical Old Town, which is a well-preserved historical town centre, full of tiny little passageways and hidden corners.
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  • Type: City with 150,000 residents
  • Description: Italian city and commune of Campania
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Salerno Railway Station and Minerva’s Garden.

Railway station
Photo: Jensens, Public domain.
serves the city of Salerno and was opened in 1866. It is the main railway station of the city.

Park
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Minerva's Garden is located in the heart of the old town of Salerno, in a zone known as the "Plaium montis" in the Middle Ages. It is halfway along an ideal route that runs along the axis of the walled and terraced vegetable gardens, climbing from the Municipal Park, near the river Fusandola, towards the .

Castle
Photo: Jack45, CC BY 3.0.
is a castle in southern located on top of a mountain, at the foot of which lies the city of Salerno.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cava de’ Tirreni and Cetara.

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Cava de'Tirreni is a city in , 8 km inland from the , with one of the best preserved Porticos in the region and a lively but relaxed atmosphere.

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is a charming and quaint fishermen's village on the . It's one of 's main centres for tuna fishing and known as food lovers' hotspot.

Neighborhood
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is an Italian hamlet of the municipality of in the , . It is part of the and its population is 996.

Salerno

Latitude
40.6804° or 40° 40′ 49″ north
Longitude
14.7595° or 14° 45′ 34″ east
Population
150,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
QSR
United Nations Location Code
IT SAL
Open location code
8FGPMQJ5+4Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68566163
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3168673
Wiki­data ID
Q1083
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Salerno” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Salernon”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σάλερνον”
  • Arabic: “ساليرنو”
  • Arabic: “سلرنو”
  • Aragonese: “Salerno”
  • Armenian: “Սալեռնո”
  • Asturian: “Salerno”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salerno”
  • Basque: “Salerno”
  • Belarusian: “Салерна”
  • Bengali: “সালেনো”
  • Breton: “Salerno”
  • Bulgarian: “Салерно”
  • Catalan: “Salern”
  • Cebuano: “Salerno”
  • Central Kurdish: “سالێرنۆ”
  • Chechen: “Салерно”
  • Chinese: “Salerno”
  • Chinese: “萨莱诺”
  • Chinese: “薩萊諾”
  • Chuvash: “Салерно”
  • Corsican: “Salernu”
  • Croatian: “Salerno”
  • Czech: “Salerno”
  • Danish: “Salerno”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Salerno”
  • Dutch: “Salerno”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ساليرنو”
  • Esperanto: “Salerno”
  • Estonian: “Salerno”
  • Etruscan: “Irna”
  • Finnish: “Salerno”
  • French: “Salerne”
  • Galician: “Salerno”
  • Georgian: “სალერნო”
  • German: “Salern”
  • German: “Salerno”
  • Greek: “Σαλέρνο”
  • Gujarati: “સાલેર્નો”
  • Hebrew: “סלרנו”
  • Hindi: “सलेर्नो”
  • Hungarian: “Salerno”
  • Icelandic: “Salerno”
  • Indonesian: “Salerno”
  • Interlingua: “Salerno”
  • Irish: “Salerno”
  • Italian: “Salerno”
  • Japanese: “サレルノ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಲೆಮೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Салерно”
  • Korean: “살레르노”
  • Kurdish: “Salerno”
  • Ladin: “Salerno”
  • Latin: “Salernum”
  • Latin: “Salernus”
  • Latvian: “Salerno”
  • Lithuanian: “Salernas”
  • Lombard: “Salerno”
  • Luxembourgish: “Salerno”
  • Macedonian: “Салерно”
  • Malay: “Salerno”
  • Marathi: “सालेर्नो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salerno”
  • Mongolian: “Салерно”
  • Neapolitan: “Salierno”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salerno”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salerno”
  • Norwegian: “Salerno”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salèrn”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salèrne”
  • Oscan: “Irna”
  • Ossetian: “Салерно”
  • Papiamento: “Salerno”
  • Persian: “سالرنو”
  • Piemontese: “Salern”
  • Polish: “Salerno”
  • Portuguese: “Salerno”
  • Quechua: “Salerno”
  • Romanian: “Salerno”
  • Russian: “Салерно”
  • Sanskrit: “सलेरनो”
  • Sardinian: “Salerno”
  • Sardinian: “Salernu”
  • Scots: “Salerno”
  • Serbian: “Салерно”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salerno”
  • Sicilian: “Salernu”
  • Silesian: “Salerno”
  • Sinhala: “සැලර්නො”
  • Slovak: “Salerno”
  • Slovenian: “Salerno”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سالرنو”
  • Spanish: “Salerno”
  • Swahili: “Salerno”
  • Swedish: “Salerno”
  • Swiss German: “Salerno”
  • Tagalog: “Salerno”
  • Tamil: “சலேர்னோ”
  • Tatar: “Салерно”
  • Telugu: “సాలెర్నో”
  • Thai: “ซาแลร์โน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Salerno”
  • Turkish: “Salerno”
  • Ukrainian: “Салерно”
  • Urdu: “سالیرنو”
  • Uzbek: “Salerno”
  • Venetian: “Sałerno”
  • Vietnamese: “Salerno”
  • Volapük: “Salerno”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salerno”
  • Welsh: “Salerno”
  • Western Panjabi: “سالرنو”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨莱诺”
  • Xhosa: “Salerno”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩萊諾”
  • “Salêren”
  • “Salerno”

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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 “Salerno”. Photo: Jensens, Public domain.