Parco Nazionale
Parco Nazionale in Puglia
13 towns
Puglia holds 13 Parco Nazionale sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Foggia, Bari, and Barletta-Andria-Trani provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Andria, Gravina in Puglia, and Minervino Murge. 10 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Andria
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 151 m
The city Frederick II carved in stone as his faithful Andria, the birthplace of burrata, ruling the Murge plateau eighteen kilometers north of its most famous castle.
Gravina in Puglia
Province: Bari · 350 m
A Bari-province town of 42,700 built on the lip of a 100m-deep limestone canyon, its cliffs threaded with rupestrian cave churches.
Minervino Murge
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 445 m
A ridge town at 445 meters where the Murgia plateau breaks off into open view, inside the national park that carries its name.
Monte Sant'Angelo
Province: Foggia · 843 m
The Gargano peak at 843 meters, the oldest western shrine to an archangel, UNESCO since 2011.
Vieste
Province: Foggia · 43 m
The Gargano headland of whitewashed alleys on a white limestone cliff, with the 25-meter Pizzomunno sea stack standing on the beach.
Cassano delle Murge
Province: Bari · 341 m
A Murge foothills town at 341 meters at the gate of the Alta Murgia park, with the 1,300-hectare Foresta Mercadante mostly inside its territory.
Peschici
Province: Foggia · 91 m
A Gargano cliff-top village above the Adriatic, white houses spilling toward the sea and trabucchi on the headlands.
Vico del Gargano
Province: Foggia · 445 m
A Gargano hill town at 445 meters where a Norman castle, a kiss alley, and DOP citrus terraces step down toward the Adriatic.
Poggiorsini
Province: Bari · 461 m
The smallest commune in metropolitan Bari, an Orsini estate of 1609 that became an independent town only in 1957.
San Giovanni Rotondo
Province: Foggia · 565 m
The Gargano town that became one of Italy's most visited pilgrimage sites, its skyline defined by a stone sanctuary large enough to seat 6,500.
Isole Tremiti
Province: Foggia · 116 m
An Adriatic archipelago of five islands twenty-two kilometers off the Gargano, the only Italian commune scattered across an open-sea group.
Mattinata
Province: Foggia · 75 m
The only Apulian town that faces south on the Adriatic, the white amphitheater of the eastern Gargano beneath Monte Sacro.
Rodi Garganico
Province: Foggia · 42 m
A Gargano promontory town above the Adriatic, citrus capital of the peninsula, with IGP oranges and lemons grown on the terraces below it.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Monte Isola
Province: Brescia
The largest lake island in southern and central Europe, 4.5 square kilometers in Lake Iseo, with no cars and eleven fishing villages on its shore.
Collalto Sabino
Province: Rieti
A 980-meter Sabine borgo dominated by a Barberini baronial castle, with a 360-degree panorama from the keep.
Rieti
Province: Rieti
The Sabine capital on the Velino, claimed as the center of Italy, under Monte Terminillo and the Franciscan sanctuaries of the Valle Santa.
Atzara
Province: Nuoro
A Mandrolisai wine village on the western Gennargentu, painted in the early twentieth century by Spanish costumbristas and the Sardinian Scuola di Atzara.
Aggius
Province: Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna
A Gallura granite village at 514 meters under the Monti di Aggius, with the largest ethnographic museum in Sardegna and three centuries of bandit history.