Spighe Verdi
Spighe Verdi in Puglia
7 towns
Puglia holds 7 Spighe Verdi sites inside our catalogue. Most cluster in the Barletta-Andria-Trani, Brindisi, and Taranto provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Andria, Castellaneta, and Maruggio. 4 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.
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.
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.
Carovigno
Province: Brindisi · 161 m
An upper Salento hill town between Brindisi and Ostuni, with a marine reserve on its coast.
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.
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.
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Five more towns
Villalago
Province: L'Aquila
A 930-meter village above three lakes, named for the nine that once filled the valley, with a hermit's cave on the water's edge.
Pantelleria
Province: Trapani
A volcanic island closer to Tunisia than Sicily, where dry-stone dammusi sit among bush-trained Zibibbo vines listed by UNESCO.
Fiumalbo
Province: Modena
A 935-meter stone village in the Modenese Apennines on the Tuscan border, at the confluence of two rivers under Monte Cimone.
Sant'Agata de' Goti
Province: Benevento
A medieval town built on a tuff cliff between two gorges, the houses standing flush with the edge over the Isclero river below.
Asiago
Province: Vicenza
The Sette Comuni plateau capital: a 6,236-resident high-altitude town at 1,001m in the Alpine prealps north of Vicenza, holding the largest WWI ossuary in northern Italy (Sacrario del Leiten, 54,286 fallen soldiers) and Italy's most important professional astronomical observatory.