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Martina Franca |
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A JOURNEY AMONG ART, CULTURE AND THE TERRITORY |
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Martina Franca is a smart town settled 431
metres above sea level, lying over one of the last southern
hills in the south-east of the Murgia area. It overlooks the
charming Valle
d’Itria, a beautiful region with trees and white houses
called “trulli”.
The main attraction of the town is definitely the
old town centre,
a typical example of baroque art, with its smart streets, its
white lanes, its elegant
mansions and its stately and monumental
churches.
Besides a fascinating landscape, marked by the ancient “casedde”,
the famous “trulli”
and the typical local farms called “masserie”,
Martina Franca is surrounded by a Karst territory, rich in
suggestive caves. |
Ducal Palace |
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From its strategic position, the Ionic town offers to its
visitors a striking view over the towns nearby, over which there
are the cities of Brindisi and Bari and their territories and,
still over, the Adriatic sea. Martina Franca also offers to its
visitors a chance to give a glance towards lovely woods, such as
the enchanting “Parco
delle Pianelle”, and towards green landscapes in the south.
These are mainly wide vines fields, and they represent little
oasis of peace and tranquillity for holidaymakers and expecially
for those who love farm holidays.
The town, in which nowadays live around 49.000 people, is also a
very important site at national level for its clothes industry.
Other important sectors, leading the economy of the town, are
agribusiness and
breeding, thanks to the presence over the territory of a
precious livestock,
ackoledged all over Italy and abroad, whose main specimens are
the famous donkey of Martina Franca and the Murgese horse.
So Martina Franca is a very popular touristic site, not only for
its rich and precious architectural, historical and artistic
heritage,but also for its cultural activities that reach their
best expression in the famous and awaited “Valle
d’Itria Festival”.
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