Places

Places of the Divine Comedy

Explore the real and symbolic places Dante crosses on his journey.

Luogo	Tipologia	Menzioni	Versi collegati	Descrizione
Talamone	Real	1	1	Tuscan port near Orbetello, bought at a high price by the Sienese, who placed great hopes in it as a means of asserting themselves as a maritime power—hopes that were ultimately disappointed.
Tambernicchi	Real	1	1	A mountain cited by Dante in Canto XXXII of the Inferno as a hyperbolic term of comparison for the thickness of the ice of Cocytus: not even the fall of Tambernicchi would produce a crack in it.
Thebes	Real	7	7	Thebes is the Greek city recalled in the Commedia as the site of the assault of the seven kings (in particular Capaneus), as the setting of its destruction, and as a term of comparison with other mythical events.
Tiber	Real	2	2	The Tiber is the principal river of central Italy; in the Commedia it is mentioned as the mouth from which the angelic helmsman sets out toward Purgatory and as the place where the river's fresh water meets the salt water of the sea.
Tuscany	Real	4	4	Tuscany is a region of central Italy cited by Dante in the realms of the afterlife as the land of origin of the damned and as a geographical setting for characters and moral events.
Ilione	Real	7	7	Troy is the city of Asia Minor destroyed after the Homeric war, from which Aeneas departed to found the Roman race; Dante evokes it as the origin of the Virgilian hero.
Tronto	Real	1	1	The Tronto is the river that, together with the Verde, marks the northern boundary of the mainland Kingdom of Sicily and flows into the Adriatic Sea.
La Turbie	Real	1	1	A village in the territory of Nice that, together with Lerici, marks one of the two extremes of the Ligurian coast, described as the most deserted and broken.
Uccellatoio	Real	1	1	Mount Uccellatoio near Florence, from which the city appears to those coming from Bologna, just as Montemalo shows Rome from the Via Cassia.
Hungary	Real	1	1	Hungary is mentioned in the Paradiso tercet in which Charles Martel, scion of the Angevins, recalls the crown that was his by right through his maternal line.
Utica	Real	1	1	Utica is the place where, according to Purgatorio I 74, Cato met his death; here the body that will shine with glory on the day of the final resurrection was buried.
Val Camonica	Real	1	1	Alpine valley cited by Dante in Inferno (XX 65) as a western geographical reference with respect to Lake Garda, where the river Oglio flows.
Val di Chiana	Real	1	1	The Valdichiana is a vast plain in central Tuscany that Dante cites in the Inferno as an example of an unhealthy, malaria-ridden area.
Valdigrieve	Real	1	1	Valdigrieve is the Florentine quarter recalled by Cacciaguida in Paradiso XVI in association with the Buondelmonti, one of the families of ancient Florence described by Dante in the Heaven of Mars.
val di magra	Real	2	2	The Val di Magra is the valley of the Magra river in Lunigiana, from which Dante has a "vapor" of Mars emerge as an image of war in Canto XXIV of the Inferno.
Val di Pado	Real	1	1	The Val di Pado is mentioned in Paradiso (XV, 137) as the place of origin of Cacciaguida's mother, from whom the son Alighiero derived the surname of Dante's family.
Vatican City	Real	1	1	The Vatican is the hill of Rome where Saint Peter was buried, on whose tomb stands the basilica dedicated to him, mentioned in the prophetic discourse of Folco.
green	Real	2	2	River cited by Carlo Martello in the Heaven of the Fixed Stars as a geographical boundary: it rises into the sea together with the Tronto.
Verona	Real	2	2	Verona is mentioned in Purgatorio XVIII as the abbey seat of San Zeno and cited in Inferno as the setting of the green palio and the theater of struggles between Guelph and Ghibelline factions.
Vicenza	Real	1	1	City in Veneto crossed by the Bacchiglione, mentioned by Dante in the Paradiso in relation to the transfer of Bishop Andrea dei Mozzi.