The High Salento. From the Murgia Hill to the Adriatic Sea.

The High Salento

Nature and silences

Summer sensations

Walking and exploring

Protected nature

Una lama vissuta per millenni

Land and culture

The park of Santa Maria di Agnano

Torre Pozzelle

Lido Morelli

Nature

Apartments in Ostuni

Trulli & Villas

Nature

The area of the Alto Salento (High Salento) goes from the South of the Murgia hills to the Adriatic coast.
The Murgia hills form a landscape of singular beauty with terraces, wide valleys, panoramic coves that look down to the marina (an extensive plantation of olive trees) and the Adriatic Sea.
The shoreline is formed by a series of natural inlets, reefs and long beaches.

Co-operative Thalassia

The Co-operative Thalassia was founded for the protection of nature and organises various activities based on a different approach to tourism, based on sustainable development and eco-compatibility.
This is the aim of a project called Walking with nature…outside the surrounding walls of the White City.

On the right a list of excursions organized and guided by members of the Co-operative Thalassia.
Please contact Giuseppe and Anna Grazia (below) for information and costs.

Giuseppe

Anna Grazia

Notes:
During the routes of Nature and Silences, Una lama Vissuta per Millenni and Land and Culture it will also be possible to visit masserie along the way depending on the availability of the owners.

Don't fail to visit

The park is situated along the Murgia border looking down to the olive tree plantation.
A 24.000 years old skeleton of a woman (named Delia) with a foetus still in her womb was found in a grotto of this park, called “Grotta della Maternita”. It was an exceptional testimony of the oldest blood relatives in the history of mankind. It is possible to visit the grotto where the skeleton was found.

Choose the excursion Nature and silences to visit this area.

A beautiful and wild area with reefs, small creeks, dunes and a type of Mediterranean vegetation known as “macchia mediterranea”.

Choose the excursion Summer sensations to visit this area.

A Long and beautiful sandy beach with dunes covered with mediterranean vegetation. Declared EU Site of Communitarian Importance as well as being a Regional Protected Area.

Choose the excursion Protected nature to visit this area.

View from the Sant'Oronzo Sanctuary

Walking excurtions by the
Co-operative Thalassia

This walking trip starts at the foot of a hill near Ostuni. From here you will make your way up to the hill where you will enjoy a view of endless spaces and the stretch of olive trees going down to the Adriatic Sea. You will then visit the Sanctuary of San Biagio and return to the starting point. On request it will also be possible to visit the archaeological park of S. Maria di Agnano.

Type: walking
Duration: all day
Difficulty: medium
Distance: about 6 km

Starting at the Torre Pozzella (tower) you will admire the coastal Mediterranean vegetation present in this area. You will then enter the biggest forest of juniper of the Adriatic coast and go back to the starting point.

Type: walking
Duration: half day
Difficulty: low
Distance: about 3 km

This trip starts on the Murgia hills near Ostuni. During this walking trip you will admire the alternation between hills and valleys, level ground terraces, stoned threshing floor, and go through the Maddalena forest in which you will observe the various fases of the ilex wood growth.

Type: walking
Duration: half day
Difficulty: medium
Distance: about 4 km

During this relatively easy walking trip across flat land you will visit the Nature Reserve of Lido Morelli. You will visit the small lakes behind the dunes, home to many species of birds and century old junipers that lean on the sandy beach and the dunes.

Type: walking
Duration: half day
Difficulty: low
Distance: 2 km

You will see various nature ecosystems and signs of human presence during the Palaeolithic as you walk down the area called Lamacordola admiring monumental oaks and numerous grottoes. This walking trip starts from the Masseria Lamacordola to ends up at the Pilone area.

Type: walking
Duration: all day
Difficulty: medium
Distance: about 5 km

The Seaside

This is a biking trip aroud the area called "patriarchi land", the name given to the olive trees sculpted by centuries and nature. You will start from the rail track bridge located on the road from Ostuni to Torre Pozzella, reach the Masseria Refrigerio and then back again to the starting point where you will leave your bike for a guided visit to the hypogeum mill of Locopagliaro where you can also taste the local products.

Type: biking
Duration: half day
Difficulty: low
Distance: about 7 km

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