Close your eyes, take a deep breath and listen…
listen to the sea waves crushing against the Gargano’s rocky sea cliff or to the song of the marsh harrier, free amidst the skies of the natural reserve, or simply to the silence along the cattle-tracks of the Alta Murgia.
Or else
admire the Tavoliere’s endless fields, the secular beech trees along the paths of the Gargano Park or the flora and fauna of the Lesina and Varano lakes.
And again:
touch with your hands the marvellous blue depths of the Adriatic and the Ionian coast, where caves, varied types of corals and beautiful spirographs will bestow a special welcome to you.
Puglia can be considered a gigantic nature park able to satisfy your desire to relax surrounded by scenery which, in these parts, is different every time. Puglia is able to give you what ever you wish for.
Nature Parks and
Reserves for example: the Nature Park of Gargano, thanks to the variety of the ecosystems present upon its 121,000 hectares can boast in Italy the record for biodiversity; from the sea to the mountain, from the sea caves to the grave, from the pine forests to the mountain beech trees, to the wet zones. But it is not the only one: more to the south, towards Brindisi, Torre Guaceto’s Nature Reserve, where the ancient Guaceto Tower, built in the distant 1500 by the Aragonese, dominates from a high promontory on a cliff above the sea, land of secular olive trees, high sandy dunes on cliff overlooking the sea, constellated during the summer by white lilies and surmounted by secular junipers to descent towards the Mediterranean shrub.
More to the south, near Lecce, the Nature Reserve of Le Cesine, with its marshy vegetations, the exceptional spectacle of the birds’ migrations, the pathways scattered between the shrub and the woods. Without forgetting Alta Murgia, a land rich of natural resources, historical and cultural, like the presence of the lesser kestrel or of particular species of wild orchids, or the extraordinary discovery of the Altamura Man.
Puglia, moreover, is also its
sea and the
caves which it conceals: not only the more renowned ones of Polignano a Mare in the province of Bari, but also those to the north between Vieste and Mattinata, like the Violet Cave, the Campana Piccola and Campana Grande, able to bestow exciting play of lights; or to the south, like the Grotta dei Cervi in Porto Badisco, the Romanelli Cave and the Zinzulusa in Castro. Marine caves but not only: in Castellana Grotte, in the direction of Putignano one can find the most spectacular speleological complex known in Italy.
But Puglia is also a bit…island, like the
Tremiti Islands; 12 miles from the northern coast of the Gargano, in front of Lake Lesina, and the archipelago of the Tremiti; San Domino the largest of the archipelago, San Nicola is the historical and administrative centre, Capraia, Crepaccio and La Vecchia are rocky and uninhabited rocks. The low Pianosa Island is situated various miles away. Reachable by sea from Termoli, Manfredonia, Vieste, Peschici and Rodi and by helicopter from Foggia, the Tremiti are known for their unparalleled naturalistic appeal and for the wealth of their historical and religious traditions.
Sea and lakes, stretched in an explosion of colours and scents, caves and ravines, rocky coasts and fine, golden sandy dunes, nature parks…Puglia is all the nature you can wish for!
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Close your eyes, take a deep breath and listen… listen to the sea waves crushing against the Gargano’s rocky sea cliff or to the song of the marsh harrier, free amidst the skies of the natural reserve, or simply to the silence along the cattle-tracks of the Alta Murgia. 
