The Alta Murgia

Altamura is one of the towns inside the Alta Murgia national park. It is a limestone plateau: dry stone walls, grazing land, drove roads walked by sheep for centuries. Little shade, a lot of sky. It looks nothing like the rest of Puglia and does not try to.

The distances are short. The necropolis is 4.9 km away, the Foresta di Mercadante — a forest planted on a plateau that has few trees of its own — 14 km, the Castello Svevo 15 km, the Lago Gemmula necropolis 17 km. On request, we are glad to suggest where to start.