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Geographical Outline of Apulia

Apulia is a varied region: coming from the north you will be amazed by the boundless Capitanata plains (which were the granaries of Italy m Roman times), along the coast to the Margherita di Savoia Saltpans (the biggest in Europe), going down further South the area becomes arid around Murgia. Here a karst phenomenon created the Castellana grottoes,
while a little further down, there is a town which looks tike it came straight out of a fable: "Alberobello" with its typical white houses with "upside-down cone" roofs. Not far from here there is an attraction that always wiles its charm, especially on the little ones, the Fasano zoo safari.

It takes time to get to know and understand Apulia even to those who have put down roots there; one has to get used to the slow and typically Mediterranean rhythm of life, but also to the fast pace of the Levantine nature. One has to travel all over it, walk along its streets, let oneself down its bowels and, climb up its steepest ridges.
The flatness of Apulia is a mere tale, as one can tell from the environmental features and the "sub-regions" characterized by an unquestionable historical and cultural homogeneity: Capitanata and Gargano, Terra di Bari, Murge, Valle d'Itria and Salento, are not just geographical names but rather the tesserae of an enchanting mosaic created by history in a cultural melting pot.

Archeology in Apulia ..... -  Outline History of Apulia ....  - Rupestrian Civilization in Apulia ..... - The Coasts, Ports and Landing-Places ...... .

A mosaic made of sand and stone, lush mountains and fields of wheat, orchards and olive groves as far as the eye can see, rocky hills, silent lagoons and subterranean caves, moulded and modified by man, who has succeeded in the course of time in making this soil - a soil probably destined to perennial drought - fertile and rich, and who built dolmens and menhirs, castles and cathedrals, abbeys and sanctuaries, museums and palaces, villas and farms, towers and trulli on it.
Today, those who choose to visit Apulia will still find all this and much more, because Apulia is a land of arts, civilizations, colours, traditions and charming atmospheres for all seasons.
 

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