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[View of the Ostuni City Center - Thanks to Fedewild]

Ostuni is placed on the remains of a prehistoric town destroyed during the final throes of the Second Punic War.

Attractions

• Museo di Civilt? Preclassiche della Murgia
• Fifteenth-century Cathedral, Gothic style of Venetian and Lombardian influence, with a large and decorated central rose window that represents the Cristo Sole (Christ the Sun)

The Umbra Forest

[View of a trail in the Umbra Forest - Thanks to Argentalico]

• Beatiful landscape of Gargano: sea, hills at 1000 meters height with splendid trees:
• Zeppino dello Scorzone, d’Aleppo pine tree 700 years old
• Cerro di Vico, 400 years old with a circumference more than 5 meters
• Colosso della Foresta, a beech tree of 40 meters near Cutino d’Umbra lake.

[Cyclist in Puglia - Thanks to Roberto Ferrari]

Description of the Bike Tour

1. Start from Caserma di Caritate 272 m
2. Cycle through the forest path
3. Hard hairpin turn
4. Rise until Sfilzifountain
5. Rise until you’ll arrive in Caserma Ginestra Superiore, at 687 m sea level: here you can enjoy a beautiful landscape