Altomonte

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Altomonte

Elevation455 m

Land area65.72 km²

Coordinates39.70°, 16.13°

Demographic figures from ISTAT. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Altomonte is a town and comune in the province of Cosenza, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

M

Mario Carbone

Italian film director and cinematographer

D

Domenico Damis

Italian politician (1824-1904)

Giacomo Coppola

Italian politician (1797–1872)

Pasquale Laurito

Italian journalist

P

Pier Giuseppe Samengo

Italian politician

Angelo Maria Mazzia

Italian painter (1823-1891)

Paolo Bruno

Italian politician

Vincenzo Di Benedetto

Italian classical philologist and hellenist (1934-2013)

Enzo Domestico Kabregu

Italian-born Uruguayan painter (1906-1971)

F

Francesca Chaouqui

S

Serafino Biscardi

Italian jurist, lawyer and poet

L

Leopoldo Granata

F

Fausto Manes

Italian biologist and university professor (born 1951)

G

Giovanni Mele

A

Ambrogio Irianni

Italian politician

F

Ferdinando Balsano

Italian politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Calabria

• Vallo Marino
  2 mi away
• Ficara
  2.2 mi away
• Ficara III
  2.5 mi away
• Casello
  2.6 mi away
• Macellara
  2.7 mi away
• Mottafollone
  4.8 mi away · pop. 1,516
• San Sosti
  5.8 mi away · pop. 2,299
• Sant'Agata di Esaro
  9.2 mi away · pop. 2,223
• Tarsia
  9.5 mi away · pop. 2,383
• San Marco Argentano
  9.7 mi away · pop. 7,635
• Morano Calabro
  10.1 mi away · pop. 4,966
• Terranova da Sibari
  11.6 mi away · pop. 5,216

Browse all places in Calabria →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Altomonte

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Small-headed tree ant

Liometopum microcephalum

Seen 2026-09-11

European Badger

Meles meles

Seen 2026-09-11

Red Fox

Vulpes vulpes

Seen 2026-09-11

Yellow Loosestrife

Lysimachia vulgaris

Seen 2026-09-05

Western Yellow Wagtail

Motacilla flava

Seen 2026-09-05

Lang's Short-tailed Blue

Leptotes pirithous

Seen 2026-09-05

watermint

Mentha aquatica

Seen 2026-09-05

common cocklebur

Xanthium orientale

Seen 2026-09-05

jimsonweed

Datura stramonium

Seen 2026-09-05

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers