Taranto
Taranto is a province in Apulia in Italy on the Ionian Sea. The western coast is almost entirely sandy, with important dune systems that can reach up to 15 metres. In the hinterland there is a vast pine forest of great natural value.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Taranto and Martina Franca.
Taranto
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Taranto is a city on the Ionian coast of Apulia, in southeastern Italy. With 200,000 inhabitants it is the third-largest city of Southern Italy and the second-largest city of the region, after the capital Bari.
Martina Franca
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Martina Franca, or just Martina, is a town and municipality in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy. It is the second most populated town of the province after Taranto, and has a population of 49,086.
Taranto
- Type: province of Italy with 577,000 residents
- Description: province of Italy
- Also known as: “Province of Taranto”, “Provincia dello Iònio”, “provincia di Taranto”, and “Taranto province”
- Neighbors: Brindisi and Lecce
- Location: Apulia, Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Taranto” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Provinca e Tarantos”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة تارانتو”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة طارنت”
- Armenian: “Տարանտո”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Taranto”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Tarento”
- Azerbaijani: “Taranto əyaləti”
- Basque: “Tarentoko probintzia”
- Belarusian: “правінцыя Таранта”
- Belarusian: “Таранта (правінцыя)”
- Belarusian: “Таранта”
- Bengali: “টারান্টো প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “proviñs Taranto”
- Breton: “Proviñs Taranto”
- Bulgarian: “Таранто”
- Catalan: “província de Tàrent”
- Catalan: “Província de Tàrent”
- Cebuano: “Taranto”
- Chinese: “Taranto Séng”
- Chinese: “塔兰托省”
- Chinese: “塔蘭托省”
- Czech: “Provincie Taranto”
- Danish: “Taranto”
- Danish: “Tarente”
- Dutch: “Taranto”
- Dutch: “Tarente”
- Esperanto: “provinco Taranto”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Taranto”
- Estonian: “Taranto provints”
- Finnish: “Taranton maakunta”
- French: “province de Tarente”
- French: “Province de Tarente”
- French: “Taranto”
- French: “Tarente”
- Galician: “Provincia de Taranto”
- Georgian: “ტარანტოს პროვინცია”
- German: “IT-TA”
- German: “Provinz Tarent”
- German: “Tarent”
- Greek: “Επαρχία του Τάραντα”
- Greek: “Τάραντας”
- Gujarati: “ટારાન્ટો પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “טאראנטו”
- Hindi: “टारंटो प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Taranto megye”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Taranto”
- Interlingua: “Provincia de Taranto”
- Interlingua: “provincia Taranto”
- Irish: “Cúige Taranto”
- Italian: “provincia di Taranto”
- Italian: “Provincia di Taranto”
- Italian: “Taranto”
- Japanese: “ターラント県”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Taranto”
- Kannada: “ಟರಾಂಟೊ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kikuyu: “Province ya Taranto”
- Korean: “타란토도”
- Ladin: “Provinzia de Taranto”
- Ladino: “Provinsia de Taranto”
- Latin: “Provincia Tarentina”
- Latvian: “Taranto province”
- Ligurian: “Provinsa de Taranto”
- Lithuanian: “Taranto provincija”
- Lombard: “Pruvincia de Taranto”
- Luxembourgish: “Provënz Taranto”
- Malay: “Wilayah Taranto”
- Marathi: “टारंटो प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Taranto Séng”
- Mingrelian: “ტარანტოშ პროვინცია”
- Neapolitan: “Pruvincia ‘e Taranto”
- Neapolitan: “Pruvincia ’e Taranto”
- Northern Frisian: “Prowins Tarent”
- Northern Frisian: “Tarent”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taranto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Taranto”
- Norwegian: “Taranto”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Província de Tarent”
- Ossetian: “Таранто (провинци)”
- Ossetian: “Таранто”
- Persian: “استان تارانتو”
- Piemontese: “Provincia ëd Tàranto”
- Polish: “Prowincja Tarent”
- Portuguese: “Província de Taranto”
- Portuguese: “Taranto”
- Portuguese: “Tarento”
- Romanian: “Provincia Taranto”
- Russian: “Таранто”
- Scots: “Province o Taranto”
- Serbian: “Таранто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Taranto”
- Sicilian: “Pruvincia di Tàrantu”
- Sinhala: “ටරන්ටෝ පළාත”
- Slovak: “Tarentská provincia”
- Slovenian: “IT-TA”
- Slovenian: “Pokrajina Taranto”
- Slovenian: “Taranto”
- Slovenian: “Tarent”
- South Azerbaijani: “تارانتو اوستانی”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Tarento”
- Spanish: “Tarento”
- Swedish: “Taranto”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Tarento”
- Tagalog: “Taranto”
- Tamil: “தரண்டோ மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “టరాంటో ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “టరాంటో రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดตารันโต”
- Turkish: “Taranto ili”
- Turkish: “Taranto”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Таранто”
- Ukrainian: “Таранто”
- Urdu: “صوبہ تارانتو”
- Uzbek: “Taranto”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Taranto”
- Venetian: “Provincia de Tàranto”
- Vietnamese: “Taranto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Taranto”
- Welsh: “Talaith Taranto”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ٹارنٹو”
- Wu Chinese: “塔兰托省”
- Yue Chinese: “塔蘭托省”
- “ma lili Talanto”
- “Provinge de Tarde”
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