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The "Donna di Ostuni" is the 28,000-year-old skeleton of a Paleolithic woman, approximately 20 years old, found in the Santa Maria di Agnano cave near Ostuni. The "world's oldest human mother" died in late pregnancy, her fetus in the 8th or 9th month. The skeleton is on display at the Museum of Preclassic Civilizations of the Southern Murgia (Museo di Civiltà Preclassiche della Murgia Meridionale) in Ostuni.

In 1278 the walls of Villanova were built, and about 20 years later the castle was built by the Angevins, who took over the domination of Ostuni from the Swabian-Normans, who were responsible for the intensification of olive cultivation. From surviving documents, demonstrating its strategic importance, it appears that around the 15th century the castle was a fully active defensive structure. In fact, the city of Ostuni under Aragonese domination, thanks also to the castle and the small port of Villanova, managed to maintain the status of a state city, therefore free from feudal duties. Due to the various destructions over time, little remains of the original 14th-century construction. Currently the castle is made up of three bodies that act as square towers with a sloped base. Around the building, at the height of the first floor, runs a tubular torus and from the roof of the building rises a turret modeled on the prototype of a lighthouse. Ref. https://fondoambiente.it/luoghi/castello-del-porto-turistico-di-villanova-ostuni

it is a tourist port protected by two piers: the eastern pier 70 m long with quayside and bollards and the western pier 280 m long. Inside the dock there are some docks reserved for pleasure boats

The 12th century church of San Biagio in Rialbo opens onto a natural cave. It is best to reach it from the Strada dei Colli rather than from the valley if you are a beginner MTB rider.

Nice ride even on rocks and beaches

The Archaeological Park of Santa Maria di Agnano is an area of 13 hectares near Ostuni, where there is a cave used for female rituals and cults for 30,000 years. Two Paleolithic burials have been discovered here, including the famous woman of Ostuni, a pregnant woman from 27,000 years ago. In the Park there are also evidences of the Neolithic, the Bronze Age, the Messapians and the Christians.

The Sanctuary of S. Biagio is a rock church near Ostuni, founded in the 12th century by Basilian monks. It is dedicated to the first patron saint of the city, whom the faithful honor on February 3 with a procession. The church is in ruins but an atmospheric place to visit with the scenery along the path extending down to the sea.

Among the ravines of the Ostuni Murge, a few kilometers from the town, along the road known as the Hills, is the ancient rock church of S. Biagio, today in an advanced state of decay, a pilgrimage destination every year for devotees who on February 3, out of devotion, they go to pay homage to the patron saint of the city of Ostuni. The origins of the church, Basilian cenobitic laura, and of the modest adjacent housing complex, seat of the oblate (or guardian), up to the beginning of our century, located in front of the church, date back to the 12th century and various parchments attest to it in irrefutable way. The first to live in the small settlement of S. Biagio in Rialbo in the late Middle Ages were some Basilian oblates who from the bishops of Ostuni obtained the surrounding land, animals and economic support to undertake their activities. The city of Ostuni, which recognizes San Biagio as the first patron saint of the city and who has venerated him since time immemorial, since