Trapani
Trapani occupies a narrow peninsula stretching between two seas, where the Tyrrhenian and Mediterranean meet. Its historic centre extends directly into the water, framed by old city walls, beaches, and a working port.
- Type: City with 55,200 residents
- Description: Italian comune
- Also known as: “Drépane”
- Neighbors: Calatafimi Segesta, Erice, Marsala, and Salemi
Places of Interest
Highlights: Trapani railway station and Trapani Cathedral.
Trapani Cathedral
Church
Photo: Lelezaff, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Salt Pans of Trapani and Paceco and Erice.
Erice
Santa Casa, Erice
Town
Trapani
- Categories: comune of Italy and locality
- Location: Trapani, Sicily, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.0174° or 38° 1′ 3″ north
Longitude
12.516° or 12° 30′ 58″ east
Population
55,200
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
IATA airport code
TPS
UN/LOCODE
IT TPS
Open location code
8FCJ2G88+XC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Trapani” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Trapani”
- Arabic: “تراباني”
- Arabic: “طرابنش”
- Aragonese: “Tràpani”
- Armenian: “Տրապանի”
- Azerbaijani: “Trapani”
- Bashkir: “Трапани”
- Basque: “Trapani”
- Belarusian: “Трапані”
- Bengali: “ত্রাপানি”
- Breton: “Trapani”
- Bulgarian: “Трапани”
- Catalan: “Trapani”
- Catalan: “Tràpena”
- Cebuano: “Trapani”
- Chechen: “Трапани”
- Chinese: “特拉帕尼”
- Corsican: “Trapani”
- Corsican: “Tràpani”
- Cree: “Trapani”
- Czech: “Trapani”
- Danish: “Trapani”
- Dimli (individual language): “Trapani”
- Dutch: “Trapani”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ترابانى”
- Esperanto: “Trapani”
- Esperanto: “Trapanio”
- Finnish: “Trapani”
- French: “Trapani”
- Georgian: “ტრაპანი”
- German: “Trapani”
- Greek: “Δρέπανον”
- Greek: “Τράπανι”
- Gujarati: “ટ્રેપાની”
- Hebrew: “טרפאני”
- Hindi: “तरापानी”
- Hungarian: “Trapani”
- Indonesian: “Trapani”
- Interlingua: “Trapani”
- Irish: “Trapani”
- Italian: “Trapani”
- Japanese: “トラーパニ”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ರಪಾನಿ”
- Kazakh: “Трапани”
- Kirghiz: “Трапани”
- Korean: “트라파니”
- Kotava: “Trapani”
- Kurdish: “Trapani”
- Ladin: “Trapani”
- Latin: “Drepanum”
- Latvian: “Trapāni”
- Ligurian: “Tràpani”
- Lithuanian: “Trapanis”
- Lombard: “Trapani”
- Luxembourgish: “Trapani”
- Macedonian: “Трапани”
- Malay: “Trapani”
- Maltese: “Trapani”
- Marathi: “ट्रपानी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Trapani”
- Neapolitan: “Trapane”
- Neapolitan: “Trapani”
- Northern Frisian: “Trapani”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Trapani”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Trapani”
- Norwegian: “Trapani”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Drapena”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Trapani”
- Ossetian: “Трапани”
- Persian: “تراپانی”
- Piemontese: “Tràpani”
- Polish: “Trapani”
- Portuguese: “Trapani”
- Portuguese: “Trápani”
- Romanian: “Trapani”
- Russian: “Трапани”
- Sanskrit: “त्रापनी”
- Scots: “Trapani”
- Serbian: “Трапани”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Trapani”
- Sicilian: “Tràpani”
- Sinhala: “ට්රපානි”
- Slovak: “Trapani”
- Slovenian: “Trapani”
- South Azerbaijani: “تراپانی”
- Spanish: “Trapani”
- Swahili: “Trapani”
- Swedish: “Trapani”
- Tagalog: “Trapani”
- Tamil: “ட்ராப்பானி”
- Tatar: “Трапани”
- Telugu: “ట్రాపని”
- Thai: “ตราปานี”
- Tumbuka: “Trapani”
- Turkish: “Trapani”
- Twi: “Trapani”
- Ukrainian: “Трапані”
- Urdu: “تراپانی”
- Uzbek: “Trapani”
- Venetian: “Trapani”
- Vietnamese: “Trapani”
- Volapük: “Trapani”
- Waray (Philippines): “Trapani”
- Welsh: “Trapani”
- Wu Chinese: “特拉帕尼”
- Yue Chinese: “特拉帕尼”
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