アルタムルギア国立公園の天然記念物・トップ17

The Mercadante Forest is a protected wooded area that extends for 1,300 hectares between the municipalities of Cassano delle Murge and Altamura. It was born in 1928 from a reforestation project after a flood, and hosts different species of trees, such as oaks, cedars and cypresses. It is the ideal place to cool off among the trees on hot summer days and take a break in one of the areas equipped with picnic tables.

Castle of Garagnone

2o km from Castel del Monte. Unique scenarios. Done by ebike but the area is beaten by bikers from everywhere. Corato on the head!

they removed the chain that prevented access to the dirt path from the provincial road, now you can get by car to the adjacent wood where it is barred.

A marvelous Martian landscape remains of this quarry, the red, barren and arid earth is crowned by the luxuriant vegetation of the Murgia. Red and green blend harmoniously with the blue of the sky and give life to a picture with docile but decisive colours.

The Spinazzola bauxite quarry is a deposit found in Puglia in 1935 by the surveyor Luca Nanna and the accountant Paolo Cappiello, during their excursion in the Murgia area. The field was used from the 1950s until the end of the 1970s for the extraction of bauxite, a mineral made up of iron and aluminum oxides and hydroxides, useful for processing alumina which then leads to the final product, aluminum real.

On the road between Andria and Spinazzola, a short distance from the medieval castle of Garagnone, there is a place that was once the site of a very important bauxite mining activity, the rock from which aluminum can be obtained

The Pulo di Altamura is a sinkhole of karst origin of the bowl type, created by the channeling of rainwater right at this point. This created a more or less circular depression with a diameter of about 500 m. with a maximum depth of 75 meters. Along the walls, which are very steep in some points, caves and ravines have been created which indicate the different levels of excavation by the waters. These caves represent a real archaeological heritage because they were inhabited since the earliest ages of prehistory. The route includes an unpaved stretch of about 1 km that can also be easily covered by racing bike.