Vieste - Pearl of the Gargano - International tourist center

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Uieste lies on a small rocky peninsula, between S. Lorenzo and the castle beach  the marine grottoes. The harbour is important for trade wjith the shores on the other side of the Adriatic.

The centre of the uillage is most picturesque ujith its narrow alleys, arches, and white-washed houses.

  View of Vieste

Old  Vieste stands on a sharp peninsula with the church of San Francesco at the extremity and the medieval quarter.

There is also an interesting cathedral in Romanic - Apulian Style which seems to haue been built on the site of an ancient pagan temple.

 The beach at Uieste is ouerlooked by the Pizzomunno, a huge, natural monolith.

Vieste is like a prow on the Adriatic. The long Castello beach and the curious  monolith called "Pizzomunno " at the foot of a large calcareous rock.

Vieste : Baia di San Felice. A sandy beach seen between trees , towers  and  rocks   -  Gargano coast between Vieste and Mattinata. You  feel you are in some fabled kingdom.  On the coast, where there is less greenery, there are the endemic woods of Aleppo pines which, with their pungent, salty scent and green contrast to the glaring white of the coast, create an almost unreal, "unworldly" atmosphere. Their "court" is the Mediterranean maquis, with its mastic trees, arbutus, and firillea which lend colour and scent to the sandy coastal areas.
 

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