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Castello Acquaviva
Puglia
The Acquaviva d'Aragona Castle, the medieval symbol of the town of Conversano, dominates the area from the highest point of the historic centre.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Cava Pontrelli
Puglia
The Pontrelli Quarry in Altamura is a geo-site in the Alta Murgia National Park of international importance, as it features the footprints of dinosaurs that populated the area 85 million years ago.
Geological sites
Colonne Romane
Puglia
The Roman columns are the symbol of the city of Brindisi. Built in the 2nd century AD, they ideally celebrated the culmination of the most important roads of the time, the Via Appia and the Via Traiana (Appian Way and the Trajan Way).
History and tradition
Culture and Art
Castello Aragonese e Ponte Girevole
Puglia
The Aragonese Castle and the Swing Bridge in Taranto are two masterpieces of Italian military architecture, among the most important symbols of the city's great cultural heritage.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Concattedrale Gran Madre di Dio
Puglia
The Great Mother of God Co-cathedral is a symbol of modernity in the city of Taranto, the latest Italian project by the famous architect Gio Ponti.
Religious sites
Architecture
Castello di Acaya
Puglia
The surrounding walls, a citadel and a castle make the Acaya complex a precious testimony to feudalism in the Salento, one of the most innovative in the Vice Kingdom of Naples.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Our Lady of the Rocks
Montenegro
85 330 Kotor
Our Lady of the Rocks is a picturesque island in front of Perast, with the church of the same name on it. It is an artificial island created by pourin...
Coastal natural heritage
Religious sites
Intangible heritage and craft
UNESCO heritage
The Temple of the Mother of God
Montenegro
85 335 Prcanj, Kotor
The origin of one of the most beautiful and largest sacral buildings on the Adriatic, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the st...
Religious sites
History and tradition
UNESCO heritage
Settlement Muo
Montenegro
85 330 Muo, Kotor
The Settlement Muo is located at the foot of the hill Vrmac, opposite of Kotor. It is known from historical sources that the inhabitants of Muo have b...
Villages and old cities
Coastal natural heritage
Religious sites
UNESCO heritage
Faro di Capo San Vito
Puglia
The Capo San Vito lighthouse, with its 42-metre-high tower culminating in a rotating view, has been signalling the course of sailors landing at the mouth of the Gulf of Taranto since 1869.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Castello de' Monti
Puglia
Today a major cultural center, Corigliano d'Otranto's Castello de' Monti is one of the most beautiful monuments of early 16th-century military and feudal architecture in the Terra d'Otranto (Land of Otranto).
Architecture
Culture and Art
Castello di Copertino
Puglia
The Angevin Castle of Copertino - declared a national monument in 1956 - is a mighty 16th century fortress whose majesty dominates the local area.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Santuario Maria SS della Vetrana
Puglia
The Maria Santissima della Vetrana sanctuary is the religious symbol of Castellana Grotte. There, in 1961, the plague was miraculously defeated and the folk re-enactment of the Fanòve was born.
Religious sites
Intangible heritage and craft
Ex Convento degli Agostiniani
Puglia
The former Convent of the Augustinian Friars is an architectural complex in Lecce, founded in the mid-17th century and today a major cultural center of the capital of the Salento region.
Architecture
Culture and Art
Palazzo Granafei Nervegna
Puglia
Palazzo Granafei-Nervegna is an elegant 16th-century palace. It is a valuable cultural venue that houses the original capital of one of two Roman columns in the city.
Culture and Art
Biblioteca Bernardini
Puglia
The Bernardini Library holds the most valuable collection in the province of Lecce and is an integral part of the Ex Convitto Palmieri, which also houses the Museo della Stampa (Print Museum) and the Carmelo Bene archive.
Culture and Art
Architecture
Trabucco di Termoli
Molise
The trabucchi are the symbols that characterize the city of Termoli. To observe them in all their beauty, it is possible to walk on the Passeggiata dei Trabucchi, a walkway that from the foot of Svevo Castle goes along the wall of the old village until to arrive to the Port.
Villages and old cities
Coastal natural heritage
Escursione Torrente Lorda a Sant'Agapito
Molise
The Natural Area of Lorda Torrent which is more suitable for excursion activities is the part included between Sant'Agapito and Longano, a canyon which develops for more than three kilometers and for a total surface of about 70 hectares. Along the torrent Lorda the waters flow during the whole year forming jumps and slides, in some stretches they subside forming deep pools. The river flows between steep walls of gray or reddish rock surrounded by green forests of holm oak covered with moss and ivy.
Lakes and rivers
Villages and old cities
Golf Club Varvarusa a Filignano
Molise
Filignano is one of the municipalities of Molise which are part of the National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise. A territory that varies in altitude from 460 m above sea level of the Conca di Filignano, up to the first spurs of Monte Marrone 1805 m.s.l.m. Between the gorge of the Rio Chiaro and the scenery of the Mainarde, there is a varied and lush vegetation that in the spring months are colored with an intense green dotted with flowers.
Villages and old cities
Arrampicata Morgia Pietra Martino a Salcito
Molise
The spectacular monolith of Pietra Martino rises in contrada Fontelefrassi, in the territory of Salcito. For its isolated position, the landscape context and the presence of rare species make it a valuable place from the environmental point of view, it is included in the S.I.C. "Torrente Rivo".
Villages and old cities