1 > THE WHITE CITY ITINERARY Among the White Town olive trees

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1 State/Italy > Area/Province of Brindisi > route/ White City 1 > THE WHITE CITY ITINERARY Among the White Town olive trees Places to visit > 1.1 Ostuni > 1.2 Rural Area > 1.3 Natural Regional Reserve Dune Costiere (coastal dunes) from Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo Things to do > culture / parks / sea / sport / shopping Where to sleep > hotels / agritourism / B&B / villages / camping Addictional services > eating / transport / ATM / informations / toilettes / parking Healthcare > healthcare-tourist assistance / on-duty medical service / hospitals / emergency / dialysis centres / thalassemia centres / haemophilia centres / pharmacies / parapharmacies PLACES TO VISIT > 1.1 Ostuni INFORMATION > Also called The White Town, due to the typically white-painted architecture in the oldest medieval city core, its urbanistic planning dates between I and II century A.C. shaped on the vestiges of an ancient messapic village. Ostuni is a countless multiplication of levels, an ups and downs of stairs, a riddle of alleys and lanes, a continous following of arches and overpasses, among the white homes lime painted. Ostuni is an integral part of Valle d Itria and Southern Murgia, on the border with Salento. Well known touristic location, since 1994 to 2014 received the Bandiera Blu (blue Flag) and le cinque vele (Five Sails) of Legambiente owing to the the coastal waters cleanliness and services high quality.

2 Things to do > culture > 1. San Francesco s Church / 2.San Francesco s cloister / 3. Historic City Hall / 4.Sant Oronzo s Flèche / 5.Spirito Santo s Church / 6.Mons. Antelmi s Stairwell / 7.Ancient city core, called La Terra / 8.San Vito martire s church / 9. Museum of Preclassical Civilization of Southern Murgia / 10.Cathedral / 11.Bishop s Palace / 12. Museum of Contemporary art OrizzontiArte / 13. Belvedere Panoramic point / 14. Ancient walls / 15.S. Demetrio s Gate / 16. Porta Nova Gate / 17. San Giacomo s Church / 18.Stella s Church Where to sleep > hotels > 1.Città Bianca Country Resort**** / 2.Ostuni Palace**** / 3.Hotel Rione Antico La Terra**** / 4.Relais La Fontanina**** / 5.Masseria Tutosa**** / 6.Agritrulli Additional services > eating > 1.La Bruschetta dell Oste (Via Monsignor F. Semeraro 2, Ostuni ) / 2.Hostaria San Filippo (C.so Vitt. Emanuele, 218, Ostuni ) / 3.Masseria Santa Lucia (s.s. 379 Km. 23,5 Ostuni Marina transport> 1.Trenitalia / 2. Bus STP Brindisi (Parking at Via Tenente Specchia) / 3.Taxi (Parking at Via Tenente Specchia) / 4. Brindisi Airport / 5.Brindisi Seaport ATM> 1.Post Office ATM at Corso Mazzini tourist information > 1.Info Point at Corso Mazzini / 2.Ass. Ruota Libera at C.so Mazzini toilettes> 1.By M. Antelmi stairwell, (entrance from Via Giovanni Lanza) / 2.At Museum of Preclassical Civilization (via Cattedrale) parking > 1.on Via Tenente Specchia Healthcare > on-duty medical service > 1.Ostuni (Via Miccoli) / 2.Fasano (Via Nazionale dei Trulli) / 3.Cisternino (Via Regina Margherita) hospitals > 1.Ostuni Tanzarella / 2.Fasano Umberto I emergency > 1.Ostuni Tanzarella / 2.Fasano Umberto I / 3.Villanova P.P.I. / 4.Torre Canne P.P.I. / 5. Torre San Sabina P.P.I dialysis centres > 1.Ostuni Tanzarella / 2.Brindisi Perrino (nefrologia e dialisi) / 3.Fasano Umberto I thalassemia centres > 1.Brindisi Perrino (Ambulatorio Microcitemia dal lun. al ven. h 8:00-15:00 haemophilia centres > 1.Brindisi Perrino pharmacies > 1.Alba / 2.Calamo Specchia / 3.Corsa / 4.D Ambrosio / 5.De Nitto / 6.Matarrese / 7.Rodio / 8.Santoro / 9.Tanzarella parapharmacies > 1.Cityper / 2.D Amico / 3.Serranova / 4.Guarnieri / 5.G.V.M. / 6.Pharma Saniprof

3 Instructions / Ostuni > (From Bari 85,0 km via SS16 travel time 1h 10 min driving) (From Lecce 77,0 km via SS613 e SS379 travel time 58 min driving) After getting to Ostuni, it is possible to park at via Tenente Specchia where are available also accesible toilets and a public mountain accessibile with help. From car park you find a slope where for the people using wheelcharis or slow mobility, the help of an escort is advisable. The paving is made with sanpietrini, that is cubic little stones. Along avenue G. Mazzini, we point out a park reserved to disabile people s pass. by civic number 71 and other ones by post office at civic number 11, where is available an outdoor ATM. We mark a low number of sidewalk ramps. On the left, at civic number 6, you find the Touristic Infopoint (tel [email protected]) with architectural barriers ( a step) at the entrance, but with a park reserved to disabile people s pass. Nearby you will find A ruota Libera association, where you can ask any information about Ostuni accessibility. Bear in mind that all ancient Ostuni is a controlled traffic zone (Infoponit: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II n. 29 tel [email protected]). The authorized wehicles with disables pass can enter as fas as it is allowed. Reached Piazza Libertà, paved with large stones, you find San Francesco s Church, witn a step of about 20 cm at the entrance. Nearby the Church, there s the Cloister when indoor you find on the left the lift to the Historic City Hall s first floor, once Franciscan Monastery. The city hall hosts a painting collection. In whole area there are informative panels in front of buildings, monuments, historical places, written in standard writing. There aren t handiwork for tactile exploration. Then, back in the Piazza, you go straight 30 mt where you can admire the round basement vestiges of a old city s wall tower surrounded by a rail. Just after in front of us, you can observe Sant Oronzo s spire, typical baroque style, and going to the right you admire Spirito Santo s Church, in via Roma, with architectural barriers (about 14 steps) and not accessible for visitors in wheelchairs. Please note the considerable artistic value of the beautyful Portal. From the other Square side, you can admire the stunning Mons. Antelmi s stairwell, when are available public toilettes: to reach them you must go as far as Via Giovanni Lanza. From Piazza Libertà you can enter the narrow Cathedral alley to rich the tallest Ostuni hill on wich is built the ancient city core named La Terra, as the Ostuni people call the old district. Urbanistic planning dates between I and II century A.C. shaped on the vestiges of an ancient messapic village. Ostuni is a countless multiplication of levels, an ups and downs of stairs, a riddle of alleys and lanes, a continous following of arches and overpasses, among the white homes lime painted. Via Cattedrale has some stretches of steep climb which need one or two escorts for people in

4 wheelchair: it is a very difficult way. Along this narrow way, you find many typical souvenir stores until the stairwell of San Vito martire s Church, with its sumptuous and curvilinear baroque leccese façade.the Church is nearby the Museum of Preclassical Civilization of Southern Murgia with paleolithic and Age of Bronze and Iron relics del Ferro. The Museum has a lift to get the first floor and accesible sanitary facilities, but it is necessary overtake a 20 cm step. Then you go ahead to get Cathedral, at via T. Trinchera, where you meet architectural barriers due to steps without railing, so it is not possible to access for wheelrails or people with reduced mobility. In whole area there are informative panels in front of buildings, monuments, historical places, written in standard writing. There aren t handiwork for tactile exploration The Cathedral is dedicated to Santa Maria dell Assunta, it was built in XV Century second half and is one of the most known Puglia monuments. The gothic-romanic façade is National Monument since Nearby we found the Bishop s Palace and in front of it the Seminary, connected by an arch - corridor, Arco Scoppa, both aren t accessibile by visitors. In the little square there is Museum of Contemporary art OrizzontiArte, with an architectural barrier (a step of 10 cm.). Going on the short hill, turning on the right to Vico Castello, you get after 30 mt. an open space from wich it is possible to admire the stunning panoramic view od the Ostuni olive trees. Going back via Catterale, returnig in Piazza Libertà, from here, if you are not yet tired, it is nice to strolling along the ancient walls. The start is at, just at the beginning of the historical old vestiges. Its a really exiting itinerary, both for the magnificence of human work, both for the beauty of landscape. The paving is made by large stones, with a accessible walksides with ramps. Defensive walls with cilindric towers and machicolations, have five doors to enter in the medieval town. Today remain 2 ones: Porta S. Demetrio, toward the East and Porta Nova, toward the west. Then you meet San Giacomo s Church and Stella s Church, both not accessibile due to architetcural barriers. In whole area there are informative panels in front of buildings, monuments, historical places, written in standard writing. There aren t handiwork for tactile exploration. PLACES TO VISIT > 1.2 Rural Area Information > The whole rural area is characterized by rocky settlements in caves or crypts. Things to do > culture > 1. Santa Maria di Agnano s Church / 2.Archaeological area / 3.Dolmen / 4. Masseria Brancati (Farm) sport > 1.Cycling tours Additional services> Touristic information > 1. At the Archaeological area Toilettes> 1. Archaeological area Car parking > 1.The square in front of Santa Maria di Agnano s Church / 2. The square in front of Masseria Brancati

5 Instructions / Rural Area > Getting the road to Fasano (s.s. 16 Ostuni-Fasano), turn on the right after 2 km to reach Chiesa di Santa Maria di Agnano and Archaeological area. After parking car or bus in the large open space availanble, you find a short cllimb: assistance recommended for people in weelchairs. Forwarding on direction to Fasano, at km 870, you get Montalbano, and on the right you find the historical casa cantoniera (roadman house), today Albergabici, where is possible lend bicycles, tandems and special bikes for disabled people. Turning on the right, forward along the narrow road to get a cross where is the dolmen (contrada Pescomarano). Dolmen was very simple constructions formed by two stones vertically planted in the ground and a third one horizontally set above the first two ones, like a roof. They were warrior s tumbs. Back to the city, you get the Rosa Marina road and after 4 km, you turn to the left to reach the wonderful farm Masseria Brancati, privately owned. To visit it please contact the Natural Area of Coastal Dunes, Piazza della Libertà Ostuni (BR) [email protected]. (Masseria infotel. 330/822910) The Owner, Mister Corrado, shall for you the doors of the ancient rural mansion, wher you will admire the old frantoio ipogeo dell 800 (underground olive press room, XIX century) surrounded by the tools of farmer s civilization, the chiesa rurale di stile Rococò del 700 (rural church rococò style, XVIII century), the barn. Please note that the Frantoio is not accessible to the wheelchairs. Visit ends with a strolling in the ancient olive grove: about 800 monumental olive trees, all identified by Regione Puglia, 2000 and more years old. The Plantation has informative panels on the technical olive cultivation.. whole area there are informative panels in front of buildings, monuments, historical places, written in standard writing. There aren t handiwork for tactile exploration. PLACES TO VISIT > 1.3 Natural Regional Reserve Dune Costiere (coastal dunes) from Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo Information > The Regional Reserve Dune Costiere (coastal dunes) from Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo is a natural protected arean of Northern salento, in Ostuni and Fasano cities territory. It has habitat and coastal environments of high naturalistic and landscaping interest: an halophile vegetation and a large number of sand dunes covered by mediterranean greenery, like junipers, holm

6 oaks and scrubland of Euphorbia Spinosa. There are also wetland areas, with Fiume Grande (big river), Fiume Piccolo (little river) and Morello river, where stands sevral times the aquatic migratory avifauna. The Reserve presents several naturalistic habitat, arable lands with experimented biological agricolture, ancient olive trees; the Traiana Route, archaeologic and historical sites, ancient farms, underground olive press rooms, lame (canyons), rocky installations, industries with Parco Brand, cities and towns: a very complex territory, rich of values to preserve and improve. Thing to do > Natural reserves > 1.Parco Naturale Dune Costiere (Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo) sea > 1.Lido Morelli culture > 1.Strada Bianca /2.Pilone / 3.Fiume Morelli / 4.Ancient Constructions / 5.Ancient fishpond sport > 1. Cycling tours / 2. Trekking / 3.Diving Where to sleep > hotels > 1.Gran Serena Hotel**** (Via Appia Torre Canne BR) Addictional Services > transport > 1.Trains FF.SS. in Cisternino / 2.Autolinee Scoppio (bus) / 3.Aereoport of Brindisi / 4.Port of Brindisi touristic information > 1.Visitor s Centre Casa del Parco Toilettes > 1.at Visitor s Centre Casa del Parco Car parking > 1.In front of Visitor s Centre Casa del Parco / 2.Pilone Health > on-duty medical service > 1.Fasano (Via Nazionale dei Trulli) / 2.Ostuni (Via Miccoli) / 3.Cisternino (Via Regina Margherita) emergency > 1.Ostuni Tanzarella / 2.Torre Canne P.P.I. / 3.Villanova P.P.I. dialysis centres > 1.Fasano Umberto I / 2.Ostuni Tanzarella / 3.Brindisi Perrino (nefrologia e dialisi) thalassemia centres > 1.Brindisi Perrino (Ambulatorio Microcitemia dal lun. al ven. h 8:00-15:00 haemophilia centres > 1.Brindisi Perrino pharmacies > 1.Del Faro (Torre Canne, Via del Faro, 11) / 2.Patronelli (Pezze di Greco, Corso Nazionale, 100)

7 Instructions / Natural Regional Reserve Dune Costiere (coastal dunes) from Torre Canne to Torre San Leonardo > (From Lecce 86,8 km via SS613 e SS min. driving) (From Brindisi 50,0 km via SS min. driving) (From Bari 69 km via SS16 48 min. driving) The visitor s Centre Casa del Parco, made in an old ex railway station, is the ideal starting point for a strolling in the natural reserve of coastal dunes. We suggested first the typical white dirty road ( strada Bianca ) and then you can get Pilone along the coast. After Lido Morelli, with walkway and chair, on the right you can reach to location named Fiume Morelli. Keys are available on demand both to reserve administration ([email protected]) both to near beach (Lido / ). Area has sanitary facilities and accessible WC. You can visit the pools for aquaculture and eels farming. The wet zone of Fiume Morelli, behind the sand dunes of the reserve, is rich of waters and ancient buildings for the fishing. The river is typically L shaped and is 800 mt. long. It is feed by several and rich sources with a lightly salt water, passed trhough underground limestone. The fresh water ponds created by the river in the wet zone have been utilized fr fish farming since 1800 until A new life for them begins il 2009, wher restarts a fish farming activity, by biological method. The plant has 7 ponds and 11 gathers to control waters and fishes moving between the ponds and the sea. The ancient fish pond is accessible by back access. In the reserve zone are available tools and facilities (walkway and facilitated passages) to overtake architectural or structural barriers. All structures and visitor s centres as well as farms and other enterprises have sanitary facilities. To rent wheelcharis for trekkingm ask to Reserve administration; Accesses to the sea with walkway at Lido Morelli / , renting chair Job available; At il Pilone Camping swimming pool perfectly accessibile to disabile people. AIDS RENTAL FOR FREE TIME > Cooperativa sociale " Ostuni a Ruota libera" contatti : tel [email protected] BYCICLE TREKKING > Cooperativa Madera Bike contatti : cell [email protected]

8 TREKKING IN NATURE, GUIDED TOURS, EVENTS IN NATURE, LABORATORIES OF ENVIRINMENTAL EDUCATION > Cooperativa Gaia Environmental Tours INFOTEL / [email protected] > Cooperativa Serapia INFOTEL / DIVING CENTRES (immersioni subacquee) > ASC Diving Puglia contatti : ENTE PARCO Per info :