Discover Otranto and its Countryside by Bike
Otranto, Italy
Trip Type: Bike & Mountain Bike Tours
Duration: 8 hours
Experience an amazing bike tour across Otranto and Salento countryside. Taste some local delicacies and live authentic experiences in Puglia.
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Experience an amazing bike tour across Otranto and Salento countryside. Taste some local delicacies and live authentic experiences in Puglia. Discover Salento by bike and enjoy an unforgettable experience.
You will go up the Idro valley along a pleasant dirt patch and we'll see St. Mauro Crypt, which was carved into the soft rock of Salento at the Byzantine time.
You will proceed to Casamassella and stop at the Costantine Foundation, a center dedicated to organic farming and traditional weaving with old looms.
Then you will reach Giurdignano, the main megalithic centre of Salento due to the many dolmens and menhirs, first evidence of human presence in the area. The next stop will be Giuggianello, where you will visit the beautiful botanic garden 'La Cutura', featuring hundreds of Mediterranean, tropical and subtropical plants species, and a unique collection of succulent plants in Europe.
You will stop by a bakery with a stone oven for a delicious lunch arranged by the tour organizer. After lunch, you will cycle to Porto Badisco for a long break, and weather permitting, a swim. It is also possible to rent canoes.
Your biking will proceed along the magnificent coast road to Otranto. You will stop at the fortified farmhouse of Cippano, look at Punta Palascìa lighthouse, the easternmost point of Italy, and a peculiar lake in a disused bauxite quarry.
Return to Otranto in the late afternoon.
You will go up the Idro valley along a pleasant dirt patch and we'll see St. Mauro Crypt, which was carved into the soft rock of Salento at the Byzantine time.
You will proceed to Casamassella and stop at the Costantine Foundation, a center dedicated to organic farming and traditional weaving with old looms.
Then you will reach Giurdignano, the main megalithic centre of Salento due to the many dolmens and menhirs, first evidence of human presence in the area. The next stop will be Giuggianello, where you will visit the beautiful botanic garden 'La Cutura', featuring hundreds of Mediterranean, tropical and subtropical plants species, and a unique collection of succulent plants in Europe.
You will stop by a bakery with a stone oven for a delicious lunch arranged by the tour organizer. After lunch, you will cycle to Porto Badisco for a long break, and weather permitting, a swim. It is also possible to rent canoes.
Your biking will proceed along the magnificent coast road to Otranto. You will stop at the fortified farmhouse of Cippano, look at Punta Palascìa lighthouse, the easternmost point of Italy, and a peculiar lake in a disused bauxite quarry.
Return to Otranto in the late afternoon.
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