Instead of Polignano a Mare
Instead of Polignano a Mare: coastal towns within 90 minutes
Polignano is a town on a cliff over a cove, and the cove is on the cover of every guide to Puglia published this decade.
The Adriatic coast north and south, and the Murge just inland, have the same limestone and the same sea caves.
Coastal towns in our catalogue within 90 minutes of Polignano a Mare by road, ranked by outside recognition. Polignano a Mare itself and the other famous places are left out. 7 towns match, and all of them are below.
Instead of Polignano a Mare
Polignano a Mare · 17,531 residents · Puglia
- FasanoBrindisi
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Polignano a Mare
- 24m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 38,745
- When to go
- May–Sep
- CarovignoBrindisi
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Polignano a Mare
- 50m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 16,917
- When to go
- May–Sep
- MonopoliBari
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Polignano a Mare
- 15m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 47,996
- When to go
- May–Sep
- TraniBarletta-Andria-Trani
Coastal town · Cittaslow
- From Polignano a Mare
- 1h 8m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 54,941
- When to go
- May–Sep
- BisceglieBarletta-Andria-Trani
Coastal town · Bandiera Blu
- From Polignano a Mare
- 1h 5m by car
- By train
- Reachable
- Residents
- 53,534
- When to go
- May–Sep
The 5 best-recognised of the 7 towns that match. Drive times measured by road from Polignano a Mare. More of them follow below.
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.
Trani
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 7 m
The Adriatic port whose pink-white Romanesque cathedral stands on the water, built for a Greek pilgrim who died here in 1094.
Bisceglie
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 16 m
An Adriatic port town between Trani and Molfetta, named for Roman watchtowers, with five dolmens around it and a Norman cathedral begun in 1073.
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.
Giovinazzo
Province: Bari · 7 m
An Adriatic fishing port twenty kilometers northwest of Bari, with a Norman cathedral and a Bronze Age dolmen in the agro inland.
Drive times measured by road from Polignano a Mare. 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.