Vasto
Vasto is a comune on the Adriatic coast of the Province of Chieti, in southern Abruzzo, Italy. During the Middle Ages it was called Guastaymonis, Vasto d'Aimone or Waste d'Aimone. Fascist Italy called the city Istonio, but it was renamed Vasto in 1944.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Raboe001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 41,100 residents
- Description: Italian comune in Abruzzo
- Also known as: “Istonio”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stadio Aragona and Castello Caldoresco.
Stadio Aragona
Stadium
The Stadio Aragona is a football stadium in Vasto, Italy. It is the home stadium of F.C. Pro Vasto.
Castello Caldoresco
Castle
Photo: Davipar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Castello Caldoresco is a Renaissance castle in Vasto, Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, south-eastern Italy. It is a private property and therefore is not open to the public.
Vasto Cathedral
Church
Photo: Controllore Fiscale, Public domain.
Vasto Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, dedicated to Saint Joseph. Formerly the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Vasto, it is now a co-cathedral in the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto.
Vasto
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Chieti, Abruzzo, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.1243° or 42° 7′ 28″ northLongitude
14.7059° or 14° 42′ 21″ eastPopulation
41,100Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT VSOOpen location code
8FJP4PF4+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 70992107OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Vasto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاستو”
- Armenian: “Վաստո”
- Basque: “Vasto”
- Breton: “Vasto”
- Bulgarian: “Васто”
- Catalan: “Vasto”
- Cebuano: “Vasto”
- Central Bikol: “Vasto”
- Chechen: “Васто”
- Chinese: “Vasto”
- Chinese: “瓦斯托”
- Czech: “Vasto”
- Danish: “Vasto”
- Dutch: “Vasto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاستو”
- Esperanto: “Vasto”
- Finnish: “Vasto”
- French: “Vasto”
- German: “Vasto”
- Hungarian: “Vasto”
- Interlingua: “Vasto”
- Irish: “Vasto”
- Italian: “Vasto”
- Japanese: “ヴァスト”
- Javanese: “Vasto”
- Kazakh: “Васто”
- Korean: “바스토”
- Kurdish: “Vasto”
- Ladin: “Vasto”
- Latin: “Histonium”
- Lithuanian: “Vastas”
- Lombard: “Vasto”
- Macedonian: “Васто”
- Malay: “Vasto”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vasto”
- Neapolitan: “Vasto”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vasto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vasto”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Vasto”
- Ossetian: “Васто”
- Persian: “وستو”
- Polish: “Vasto”
- Portuguese: “Vasto”
- Romanian: “Vasto”
- Russian: “Васто”
- Scots: “Vasto”
- Serbian: “Васто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vasto, Chieti”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Vasto”
- Sicilian: “Vastu”
- Slovak: “Vasto”
- Slovenian: “Vasto”
- South Azerbaijani: “وستو”
- Spanish: “Vasto”
- Swahili: “Vasto”
- Swedish: “Vasto”
- Tagalog: “Vasto”
- Tatar: “Васто”
- Turkish: “Vasto”
- Ukrainian: “Васто”
- Uzbek: “Vasto”
- Venetian: “Vasto”
- Volapük: “Vasto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Vasto”
- Western Frisian: “Fasto”
- Western Frisian: “Vasto”
- Wu Chinese: “瓦斯托”
- “Vasto”
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