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Polignano a Mare is an Italian town of 17 982 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Bari in Puglia. The oldest part of the town stands on a rocky spur overlooking the Adriatic Sea 33 kilometers south of the capital. The country's economy is essentially based on tourism and horticulture. Its sea caves are of considerable naturalistic interest and the historic center and the remains of Roman domination are historically important.
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St. Stephen Castle
11.73km from Polignano a Mare
The castle of Santo Stefano is an important coastal fortification located outside the city of Monopoli. Throughout the Middle Ages, it was an essential component of the complex and articulated Monopolitan defense system. it was built on a small peninsula extending between two inlets that form two small natural ports, namely the current Santo Stefano and Ghiacciolo beaches. With the presence of a well from which to draw groundwater, it was the seat of the Benedictine monastery.
Grotte di Castellana
14.63km from Polignano a Mare
The caves of Castellana are a complex of underground caves of karst origin of speleological and tourist interest, located in the Italian municipality of Castellana Grotte, in Puglia. Attached to the complex there is a speleological museum. The entrance is represented by an enormous vertical tunnel 60 meters long. The main cave is named "La Grave", and others are named Black Cavern, White Cave, and Precipice Cavern.
Lido Sabbiadoro
16.4km from Polignano a Mare
Lignano Sabbiadoro, until 1959 a fraction of Latisana, is an Italian town of 6 837 inhabitants in the province of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Located on the Upper Adriatic, on the border with Veneto, it is known for its tourist vocation. It is one of the main summer resorts in northern Italy and on the Adriatic Sea coast.
Zoosafari
20.61km from Polignano a Mare
The Zoosafari of Fasano and Fasanolandia is a tourist complex that includes a zoological garden and an amusement park located in Fasano, in the province of Brindisi. The area covers thirty hectares and is home to about 3000 animals of 200 different species, which can be observed along a car route. Particularly interesting are the groups of giraffes, zebras, lions, and Tibetan bears, as well as the only polar bears in Italy.
Trullo Sovrano
23.1km from Polignano a Mare
The trullo ( ancient Greek τροῦλλος trûllos , " dome ") is a type of conical construction in traditional dry stone of central-southern Puglia . Trulli were generally built as temporary shelters in the countryside or permanent homes for farmers. Much of the agglomeration of Alberobello in the metropolitan city of Bari consists of trulli.
Pinacoteca metropolitana di Bari
31.98km from Polignano a Mare
The Metropolitan Art Gallery of Bari "Corrado Giaquinto" is an important Italian art museum. It was established on 12 July 1928 and initially housed in the local Government Palace. The Pinacoteca is named after the eighteenth-century Apulian painter Corrado Giaquinto. It offers the visitor a wide and articulated panorama of the Apulian artistic culture or in a direct or indirect relationship with Puglia.
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Apulia is a region of Italy, located in the southern peninsular section of the country, bordering the Adriatic Sea to the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto to the south. The region comprises 19,345 square kilometers, and its population is about four million.
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