On vacation in Cisternino and Ostuni with hiking shoes and walking sticks? The Valle d'Itria is the ideal area for walking in nature cared for and enhanced by generations with dry stone walls, trulli and symbiotic agriculture with the land populated by olive trees, vines and ancient oaks. If during your vacations in Puglia you don't want to give up the trekking excursion, in the area of Cisternino, not to be missed is the Via dei Colli, much loved by trekkers and bikers, a path through the Southern Murge that conquer with the wonderful colors, the scent of typical essences and the magical silence that envelops those who walk. The Via dei colli unwinds from Cisternino toward Casalini, a small hamlet of Ostuni.
Among the "specchie" of the Murgia
Along the ups and downs of the famous "roller coaster," the Murge Brindisine, one can admire postcard views, shrines and "specchie" that appear amidst expanses of millennia-old olive trees and living rock. Specchie are megalithic artifacts that can often be encountered while vacationing in Salento and the Murge. They are piles of stones stacked dry, from the stripping of land for cultivation, whose functions are not entirely clear. Almost certainly used as lookout posts, the specchie in reality may also have had a burial function or as a moisture thickener for the lush vegetation around them.Thereare also numerous ancient farmhouses along the route.
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