Hotels at Altarello booking.com

Altarello

Booking.com

Altarello

General information - Location

Country	Italy
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	South Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: 15.1939,Lat: 37.7091
Elevation	73 meter above sea level
Local time	8:14:52am
At island	Sicily
Name province/region	Sicilia
Name Subregion	Catania
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Riposto

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Archi	1.1 km	SouthEast
2 Giarre	1.8 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Carruba-San Leonardello	1.9 km	SouthSouthWest
4 Carruba	2.3 km	South
5 Riposto	2.7 km	NorthNorthEast

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Valletta	Malta	209 km	SouthSouthWest
2 Roma	Italy	516 km	NorthNorthWest
3 Città del Vaticano	Vatican-city	519 km	NorthNorthWest

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) is very close with only a distance of around 2 km (direction EastSouthEast). The nearest bigger lake is Lago di Lentini (7.2 km² at a height of around 42 meter above sea level) at a distance of 46 km in SouthSouthWestern direction).

The nearest mountain is Monte Etna with a height of 3323 meter (at a distance of 18.4 km and direction West).The nearest vulcano (within 50 km) is the Mount Etna (Shield volcano) at a distance of 17.1 km (direction West). The most nearby international border is the Albanian-Greek border with a straight distance of 476.4 km in EastNorthEastern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 667 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 3%, low location: 69%, hill: 28%, The hills are mainly eastern orientated. The surroundings of the place is lightly urbanised. The most common land use in the area is agriculture.
Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (at a distance of 29 km and direction SouthSouthWest).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Agriculture

40.3 km2

77.4%

Urban area

11.2 km2

21.6%

Infrastructure

0.3 km2

0.6%

Rock-Sand

0.2 km2

0.4%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Altarello in country Italy

Altarello at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Mount Etna	Italy	18 km	WestNorthWest
2 Syracuse and the Rocky Necropolis of Pantalica	Italy	72 km	South
3 Villa Romana del Casale	Italy	86 km	WestSouthWest

Nearest Natura2000-area

Sitename	Country	Distance	Direction
Bosco di Linera	IT	6.3 km	SouthSouthWest

Social media - Maps

	Video's op youtube van Altarello
	Video's op Vimeo
	TikTok
	Instagram
	Flickr
Filming Location	IMDB Altarello
	TikTok
	Bings maps
	Mapquest
	Wikimapia
	OpenStreetMap

Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Giarre

Type of weather in Giarre	clear sky
Current temperature:	19 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	2.06 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 2)
Wind direction:	North North East
Air pressure:	1018 mb
Humidity:	53 %
Daylength at 29 April 2024:	13 hour and 42 minutes
Sunrise :	06:05 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	19:47 Europe/Amsterdam