Southern Italy
Apulia
Lecce

Salve

Salve is a town of 4,500 inhabitants in the region in . Its territory comprises 7 km of sandy coastline on the Ionian Sea. The village has traces of an old Castle which resisted several Turkish sieges.
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  • Type: Village with 4,560 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “075066” and “Salve, Apulia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Veretum and Maria Santissima Immacolata.

Archaeological site
Photo: Lupiae, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an archaeological site, which is situated 4 km southeast of Salve.

Church
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is a church, which is situated 4 km east of Salve.

Church
Photo: Tommasopaiano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a church, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Salve.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Torre Vado and Presicce.

Photo: Pepemanuele, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village of the region in . It lays on the shore of the Ionian Sea, just 7 km north of the southernmost tip of the region.

Suburb
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was a town and comune in the in the region of south-east . It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia. In 2019 it was merged with the adjacent to form Presicce-Acquarica. is situated 5 km northwest of Salve.

Hamlet
Photo: Psymark, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet.

Salve

Latitude
39.8613° or 39° 51′ 41″ north
Longitude
18.2933° or 18° 17′ 36″ east
Population
4,560
Elevation
138 metres (453 feet)
Open location code
8FFWV76V+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68529414
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
6541741
Wiki­data ID
Q52185
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Salve” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سالفي”
  • Armenian: “Սալվե”
  • Basque: “Salve”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Сальвэ”
  • Belarusian: “Сальвэ”
  • Breton: “Salve”
  • Bulgarian: “Салве”
  • Cebuano: “Salve”
  • Chechen: “Сальве (гӀала)”
  • Chechen: “Сальве”
  • Chinese: “Salve”
  • Chinese: “萨尔韦”
  • Dutch: “Salve”
  • Esperanto: “Salve”
  • French: “Salve”
  • German: “Salve”
  • Hungarian: “Salve”
  • Interlingua: “Salve”
  • Irish: “Salve”
  • Italian: “Comune di Salve”
  • Italian: “Salve”
  • Japanese: “サルヴェ”
  • Kazakh: “Сальве”
  • Kurdish: “Salve, Apulia”
  • Kurdish: “Salve”
  • Ladin: “Salve”
  • Latin: “Salven”
  • Latin: “Salvium”
  • Lithuanian: “Salvė”
  • Lombard: “Salve”
  • Malay: “Salve, Itali”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salve”
  • Neapolitan: “Salve”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salve”
  • Piemontese: “Salve”
  • Polish: “Salve”
  • Portuguese: “Salve”
  • Romanian: “Salve”
  • Russian: “Сальве”
  • Serbian: “Salve”
  • Serbian: “Салве”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salve, Lecce”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Salve”
  • Sicilian: “Salve”
  • Spanish: “Salve”
  • Swedish: “Salve, Apulien”
  • Swedish: “Salve”
  • Tagalog: “Salve, Apulia”
  • Tagalog: “Salve”
  • Tatar: “Сальве”
  • Turkish: “Salve”
  • Ukrainian: “Сальве”
  • Uzbek: “Salve”
  • Venetian: “Salve”
  • Volapük: “Salve”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salve, Italya”
  • “Salve”
  • “Salve (Itaglie)”

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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 “Salve”. Photo: Pepeemanuele, CC BY-SA 4.0.