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Puglia protects its environment. With the National Parks of the Gargano and the Murge, the marine reserves of the Tremiti Islands and Torre Guaceto, and many more protected areas, Puglia boasts a vast and diverse natural landscape that is perfectly safeguarded today.
Puglia countryside. The trulli, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are aggregated in Alberobello or distributed throughout the countryside of the Valle d’Itria, historic farmhouses, and underground presses: these are examples of architecture developed to meet past rural needs, and today have become a priceless cultural legacy.
Puglia karstic landscape. Ravine, plateaus, and dolines score the surface of a territory heavily characterised by karstic phenomena with its rich natural habitats and the numerous caves, rupestrian villages, and underground churches, wondrous sites that today narrate centuries of the presence of man, from prehistoric times to modern day.
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Parks and Reserves

Parks and Reserves

Over twenty protected areas managed by different public entities in order to protect and preserve an extremely diverse, unique natural heritage
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Countryside

Rural Landscape

Masserie (countryside farmhouse-estates), trulli (small round houses of stone with conical roofs), and dry-masonry walls dot the countryside of the region of Puglia, characterised by swamplands and ravines, the natural landscape of the rupestral habitat
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Lakes and Saltworks

Lakes and saltpans

Naturally damp environments where animal and vegetable species have found the protection and respect of man
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Highlights

Hypogea

Underground cavity used by humans as crushers, tanks and palmenti.

Farms

Apulian rural fortified farms, both working places and defensive ramparts against Saracens and pirates

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Rupestrian civilisations

An itinerary of Puglia

Mills and furnaces

Areas of artisan production

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