Ostuni, the magic White City!

Ostuni, a small city in the beautiful Apulia, is the only city in the Valle d'Itria to have access to the sea. A crystalline sea, which for the different awards given, seems to be the cleanest in Italy.
It's called the "White City" par excellence, because of its historic center painted in lime, characterized by a labyrinth of small streets and alleys, which you can walk on a 'ape calessino' (a kind of small car with three wheels), which thanks to its small size, can easily slip into each street revealing every hidden corner of the ancient city. 

Ostuni is without a shadow of doubt one of the most renowned tourist centers of Puglia: through its streets meet visitors who come from every part of the world and at any time of the year.

Many souvenir shops and many restaurant where you can taste delicious meat and vegetable dishes, lie on its splendid hill, in the high plateau covered with olive trees, where green plunges into the blue of its Adriatic sea.

This city, offers a historic center full of monuments and attractions, very particular that is called by its inhabitants "La Terra" (the earth), at the top of which rises the Cathedral of "Santa Maria dell'Assunzione", in Romanesque-Gothic style. In the same square of the Cathedral are facing the "Palazzo Vescovile" and the "Vecchio Seminario", connected, with a vivid pictorial effect, by the "Arco Scoppa".

The symbolic monument of Ostuni is the "Guglia di Sant'Oronzo", over 20 meters high, is located opposite the town hall, in "Piazza Libertà". The column is a votive offering strongly desired by the faithful citizens to thank the Saint who protected the city from the scourge of the plague and the famines of the eighteenth century. The plague invaded the south of Puglia saving Ostuni and other cities. The miracle was attributed to the Saint who in now the patron of the city and every year is celebrated for three days, from 25 to 27 of August.
If you happen to go to Ostuni at this time is very important to see the "Cavalcata di Sant'Oronzo": a procession of horses and riders, who wander through the city streets in support of the protector of the city. 

In addition to the beauty of the city, there is another fundamental reason for visiting Ostuni: the 17 Km of coasts that in a play of colors wind through long beaches with dunes covered by Mediterranean scrub and an alternation of sandy coves or rocky coats. "Rosa Marina" is a succession of small sandy beaches; "Costa Merlata" is instead a very jagged line, with the sea that creeps between the ravines of a rock coastline forming sandy coves; "Torre Pozzella! one of the most beautiful and uncontaminated beaches in the area, consisting of small and wild coves and mate even more beautiful by an ancient Aragonese sighting tower.

Why to visit Ostuni? Why get lost for the endless small streets? Because its light dazzles the heart of every traveler!!!