Parco Regionale
Parco Regionale in Puglia
11 towns
Puglia holds 11 Parco Regionale sites inside our catalogue. Most cluster in the Lecce, Barletta-Andria-Trani, and Brindisi provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Castellaneta, Lecce, and Minervino Murge. 8 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Castellaneta
Province: Taranto · 235 m
A cliff-edge Murge town at 235 meters above the Gravina Grande canyon, birthplace of Rudolph Valentino in 1895, with a Bandiera Blu Ionian marina.
Lecce
Province: Lecce · 49 m
The Baroque capital of the Salento, ninety-four thousand people on the Lecce-stone plain, carving its façades in honey limestone since 1500.
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.
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 one of Europe's largest safari parks.
Gallipoli
Province: Lecce · 12 m
The Ionian beach city on a limestone island, Greek Kallipolis meaning beautiful city, tied to the mainland by a seventeenth-century bridge.
Nardò
Province: Lecce · 45 m
The second town of the province of Lecce, a Baroque inland capital twenty-five kilometers from Lecce with a Ionian coastline behind it.
Ostuni
Province: Brindisi · 218 m
The Città Bianca on three hills at 218 meters, eight kilometers inland, whitewashed against the Murge above an Adriatic plain of olive trees.
Otranto
Province: Lecce · 20 m
Italy's easternmost city, eighty kilometers from Albania, with a Norman mosaic floor and the bones of 813 martyrs in the cathedral.
Trinitapoli
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 5 m
A Tavoliere town between the Saline di Margherita and the Ofanto, sitting on a Bronze Age sanctuary that still surprises archaeologists.
Ugento
Province: Lecce · 108 m
A Messapian-Roman town five kilometers from the Ionian, where a Baroque castle sits on the walls of the ancient city of Ozan.
Martina Franca
Province: Taranto · 431 m
A Baroque and Rococo town on the Itria ridge at 431 meters, with an opera festival in its ducal courtyard since 1975.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Lavagna
Province: Genova
The Tigullio town that gave its name to slate, and its counts to a line of popes.
Montegiordano
Province: Cosenza
A 619-meter hill town with a hunting castle and a centro storico turned into a gallery of murals.
Magliano Sabina
Province: Rieti
A 222-meter Sabine town on a Tiber terrace, cathedral seat of the Sabina diocese on the Lazio-Umbria border.
Monte Grimano Terme
Province: Pesaro e Urbino
A small Montefeltro borgo at 536 meters on the Marche-Romagna border, built around alkaline sulphur springs.
Carmignano
Province: Prato
A Medici village at 189 meters on the Montalbano slopes, where Etruscan tumuli sit below the Renaissance villas.