Instead of Ostuni
Instead of Ostuni: hill towns and coastal towns within 75 minutes
Ostuni is the white town on a hill above the olives, thirty thousand people and most of a season's coach traffic.
The Valle d'Itria around it is full of white towns on hills, and the trulli country is the same landscape from a different angle.
Hill towns and coastal towns in our catalogue within 75 minutes of Ostuni by road, ranked by outside recognition. Ostuni itself and the other famous places are left out. 11 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Ostuni
Ostuni · 30,143 residents · Puglia
- CisterninoBrindisi
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Ostuni
- 22m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 11,139
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- LocorotondoBari
Hill town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Ostuni
- 33m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 13,930
- When to go
- Apr–Oct
- MaruggioTaranto
Coastal town · Borghi più belli d'Italia
- From Ostuni
- 1h 6m by car
- Residents
- 5,250
- When to go
- May–Jun, Sep–Oct
- FasanoBrindisi
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Ostuni
- 27m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 38,745
- When to go
- May–Sep
- CarovignoBrindisi
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Ostuni
- 19m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 16,917
- When to go
- May–Sep
The 5 best-recognised of the 11 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Ostuni. More of them follow below.
Cisternino
Province: Brindisi · 394 m
An Itria valley borgo on the southern Murgia at 394 meters, whitewashed and looking down over drystone walls and trulli.
Locorotondo
Province: Bari · 410 m
The round white town on the Itria valley ridge at 410 meters, with cummerse roofs the rest of Puglia does not have.
Maruggio
Province: Taranto · 35 m
A fortified Borghi più Belli borgo on a low Ionian hill in Taranto province, built around a Knights of Malta commanderie that ran the Order's southern Italian affairs for six centuries.
Fasano
Province: Brindisi · 118 m
A Brindisi-province town running from the Adriatic up to the Itria escarpment, holding a Roman coastal city, a wooded highpoint, and Europe's second-largest safari park.
Carovigno
Province: Brindisi · 161 m
An upper Salento hill town between Brindisi and Ostuni, with a marine reserve on its coast.
Monopoli
Province: Bari · 9 m
An Adriatic walled town forty kilometers south of Bari, the Charles V castle on the headland, 156 square kilometers of coastline behind it.
Martina Franca
Province: Taranto · 431 m
Puglia's second Baroque city after Lecce, on the Itria ridge at 431 meters, with an opera festival in its ducal courtyard since 1975.
Campi Salentina
Province: Lecce · 47 m
A Salento plain town fifteen kilometers north of Lecce, rebuilt after the Saracen raids of 926 and later raised to a marquisate.
Castellana Grotte
Province: Bari · 290 m
A Murge town built on top of the cave system it is named for, three kilometers of galleries running 60 meters under the limestone plateau.
Conversano
Province: Bari · 219 m
A pre-Murge hill town at 219 meters, three centuries seat of the Acquaviva counts, with the abbey-monastery once called the Wonder of Puglia.
Putignano
Province: Bari · 372 m
Putignano has run its carnival continuously since 1394, the longest unbroken run in Europe, staged in a Murgia town with a karst cave threaded beneath its own centro storico.
Drive times measured by road from Ostuni. A town with no time shown is one the router could not reach, usually because it is served by ferry. How this data is built.