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Taranto

Taranto

Taranto is a city on the Ionian coast of , in southeastern . With 200,000 inhabitants it is the third-largest city of and the second-largest city of the region, after the capital .
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  • Type: City with 201,000 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “Taras” and “Tarentum”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Taranto railway station and Taranto Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Haragayato, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is the main station serving the city and comune of Taranto, in the region of , . Opened in 1868, it forms a junction between three main lines, from Bari, Brindisi and Reggio di Calabria, respectively.

Church
Photo: ParisTaras, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Taranto, , Italy, dedicated to Saint Catald. It is the archiepiscopal seat of the Archdiocese of Taranto.

Museum
Photo: Tripto, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is an Italian museum in Taranto, Italy. It exhibits one of the largest collections of artifacts from the Magna Graecia, including the Gold of Taranto.

Taranto

Latitude
40.4712° or 40° 28′ 17″ north
Longitude
17.2432° or 17° 14′ 36″ east
Population
201,000
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
IATA airport code
TAR
United Nations Location Code
IT TAR
Open location code
8FGVF6CV+F7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68528603
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3165926
Wiki­data ID
Q13498
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zhuang—“Taranto” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tarente”
  • Albanian: “Tarenti”
  • Arabic: “تارانتو”
  • Arabic: “طارنت”
  • Arabic: “طارنطس”
  • Aragonese: “Tarento”
  • Armenian: “Տարանտո”
  • Asturian: “Taranto”
  • Asturian: “Tarento”
  • Azerbaijani: “Taranto”
  • Basque: “Tarento”
  • Belarusian: “Таранта”
  • Bengali: “তারান্তো”
  • Bosnian: “Tarento”
  • Breton: “Taranto”
  • Bulgarian: “Таранто”
  • Catalan: “Tàrent”
  • Cebuano: “Taranto”
  • Chechen: “Таранто”
  • Chinese: “Taranto”
  • Chinese: “塔兰托”
  • Chinese: “塔蘭托”
  • Chuvash: “Таранто”
  • Corsican: “Taranto”
  • Croatian: “Taranto”
  • Czech: “Taranto”
  • Czech: “Tarent”
  • Danish: “Taranto”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Taranto”
  • Dutch: “Tarente”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تارانتو”
  • Esperanto: “Taranto”
  • Estonian: “Taranto”
  • Finnish: “Taranto”
  • French: “Tarente”
  • Galician: “Taranto”
  • Galician: “Tarento”
  • Georgian: “ტარანტო”
  • German: “Taranto”
  • German: “Tarent”
  • Greek: “Τάραντας”
  • Gujarati: “ટારાન્ટો”
  • Hebrew: “טאראנטו”
  • Hindi: “टारान्टो”
  • Hungarian: “Taranto”
  • Icelandic: “Taranto”
  • Indonesian: “Taranto”
  • Interlingua: “Taranto”
  • Irish: “Taranto”
  • Italian: “Taranto”
  • Italian: “Tarde”
  • Japanese: “ターラント”
  • Kannada: “ಟರಾಂಟೋ”
  • Kazakh: “Таранто”
  • Kikuyu: “Taranto”
  • Kirghiz: “Таранто”
  • Korean: “타란토”
  • Kurdish: “Taranto”
  • Ladin: “Taranto”
  • Latin: “Tarentum”
  • Latvian: “Taranto”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarantas”
  • Lombard: “Taranto”
  • Luxembourgish: “Taranto”
  • Macedonian: “Таранто”
  • Malagasy: “Taranto”
  • Malay: “Taranto”
  • Malayalam: “ടാറന്റോ”
  • Maltese: “Taranto”
  • Marathi: “तारांतो”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Taranto”
  • Neapolitan: “Taranto”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tarent”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taranto”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Taranto”
  • Norwegian: “Taranto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tarent”
  • Ossetian: “Таранто”
  • Papiamento: “Taranto”
  • Persian: “تارانتو”
  • Piemontese: “Tàranto”
  • Polish: “Tarent”
  • Pontic: “Τάραντας”
  • Portuguese: “Taranto”
  • Portuguese: “Tarento”
  • Quechua: “Taranto”
  • Romanian: “Taranto”
  • Russian: “Таранто”
  • Sango: “Taranto”
  • Sanskrit: “तारंतो”
  • Sanskrit: “त्रेंतो”
  • Sardinian: “Tàrantu”
  • Scots: “Taranto”
  • Serbian: “Таранто”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taranto”
  • Sicilian: “Tàrantu”
  • Sinhala: “ටරන්ටෝ”
  • Slovak: “Tarent”
  • Slovenian: “Taranto”
  • Slovenian: “Tarent”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تارانتو”
  • Spanish: “Taranto”
  • Spanish: “Tarento”
  • Swahili: “Taranto”
  • Swedish: “Taranto”
  • Tagalog: “Tarento”
  • Talysh: “Taranto”
  • Tamil: “தாரந்தோ”
  • Tatar: “Таранто”
  • Telugu: “టరంటో”
  • Thai: “ตารันโต”
  • Turkish: “Taranto”
  • Twi: “Taranto”
  • Uighur: “تارانتو”
  • Ukrainian: “Таранто”
  • Urdu: “تارانتو”
  • Uzbek: “Taranto”
  • Venetian: “Taranto”
  • Venetian: “Tàranto”
  • Veps: “Taranto”
  • Vietnamese: “Taranto”
  • Volapük: “Taranto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taranto”
  • Welsh: “Taranto”
  • Western Armenian: “Թարանթօ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹارنٹو”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔兰托”
  • Xhosa: “Taranto”
  • Yue Chinese: “塔蘭托”
  • Zhuang: “Taranto”
  • “Tarde”
  • “Tarento”

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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 “Taranto”. Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.