The Top 20 Natural Monuments around Sanarica
Sanarica’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 20
beautiful natural monuments around Sanarica. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments around Sanarica. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: November 15, 2025
Porto Badisco Bay
Highlight • Beach
Porto Badisco is a quiet coastal town best known for its fantastic bay with crystal clear waters. According to some, it was here that Aeneas landed after his escape from …
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The Old Woman's Boulders
Highlight • Natural Monument
Story # 1
In the land of the Messapians, among the sacred rocks, one day the Epimelid nymphs were soaring in dances with sweet and sensual movements. The young Messapi, …
In the land of the Messapians, among the sacred rocks, one day the Epimelid nymphs were soaring in dances with sweet and sensual movements. The young Messapi, …
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Dolmen Li Scusi
Highlight • Historical Site
The prevailing interpretation considers dolmens as a megalithic tombs or burial chambers, consisting of stones and slabs embedded in the ground with a monolithic roofing slab. The Dolmens of Salento …
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The Giant’s Kettle
Highlight • Natural Monument
They are formed in correspondence with water vortices that carry sands, grains, even large pebbles that affect, dig, smooth layers of rock, even of different hardness and composition, to form …
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Serra di Porto Badisco
Highlight (Segment) • Trail
Suggestive stretch of the ancient Via Appia Calabro Sallentina, which crosses the greenhouse behind the inlet of Porto Badisco. Breathtaking panorama: karst outcrops, coastal towers and almost untouched nature. Mixed dirt road, with rock sections.
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Dolmen Stabile, Megalith Park
Highlight • Monument
The dolmen stable inside the Megaliths park in the Giurdignano area. The dolmens are funerary monuments from prehistoric times made up of stone blocks.
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Zinzulusa Cave
Highlight • Cave
Castro Marina is one of the most beautiful inlets along the coast from Otranto to Leuca. It is here that the famous caves open on the rocky coast, north of …
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Furneddhu di Pietra
Highlight • Structure
One of the oldest signs left by our ancestors, this small furneddhu or payiara was certainly raised in order to protect itself from bad weather⛈️ or bitter cold❄️ and scorching heat🌞 during grazing.
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Cliffs and stone hut in Parco Naturale Regionale Costa Otranto - Santa Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase
Highlight • Natural Monument
Around Otranto, there are several traditional dry-stone huts, also called pajara. These served shepherds and farmers as shelter, storage for tools, or protection from the sun and rain.
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Menhir Spruno
Highlight • Monument
Well-squared megalith in good condition, some restorations can be seen on the faces.
It has a height of 310 cm and a large cross engraved on the EAST side, a sign of the Christianization of the monument.
It has a height of 310 cm and a large cross engraved on the EAST side, a sign of the Christianization of the monument.
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Dolmen Piedi Grandi
Highlight • Historical Site
It is located on the edge of an olive grove between dry stone walls and sheep tracks and infested with an ivy. The right foot (on our left front view) …
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