The beautiful Ostuni, renown as "the white city" rises on top of a hill and its name derives from the Greek word "Astu-neon", that is the new city, built up two thousand years ago on the rests of a more ancient city, between Bari and Brindisi, along the splendid Apulean coastline.
The city appearance has not changed since approximately three centuries, when the city developed and enlarged on the hillside of Casale, Cappuccini, Sant' Antonio, Molino a Vento and in the last years also in the beautiful and renowned locality of Marina di Ostuni, a tourist appeal for an unforgettable vacation by the sea, between history and art.
To visit in the wonderful and unique white city of Ostuni there is also the Cathedral, from the beautiful gotico-Romanesque facade that it demanded approximately average century of jobs for its realizzaione, while to the protecting Sant' Oronzo a sanctuary on the Morone Mount is dedicated also, in top to the road of the necks and that it came reconstructed towards the half of the sec. XVII incorporating one carsica cove that had an image of the Vergine, frescoed on one wall.
The territory the Murgia, on which Ostuni is set, it is called "sasso appuntito" meaning a sharp stone and it is constituted in great part from cretaceous limekilns, and it lacks therefore of water courses and valleys. In place of the water courses it boasts not deep furrows with steep walls, the so-called "lame" which means blades and enormous ravines, the famous "gravine".
In these last years the bathing locality of Rosa Marine and Marina di Ostuni have rised in the vicinities, representing one of the most clean beaches in the Adriatic coastline. Both localities are one of the mainly attended zone by the most demanding tourists, for their nature and landscape beauties (sea, country and hillside) rendering more famous Ostuni also for their high quality accommodation, with optimal hotel, lodge, residence and the typical "masserie" the local farm houses providing an healthy and genuine cuisine, beyond the vastness of the historical, artistic, architectonic and cultural assets.
