White lanes
A maze.
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Ostuni is a hilltop town in the province of Brindisi in Apulia, southern Italy, about 8 km from the coast, 33 km northwest of Brindisi and 73 km southeast of Bari in a straight line. About 30,000 people live there in winter, and many more in summer. People have lived in the area since the Stone Age, and the town is said to have been founded by the Messapians, a pre-classical people. The region is now one of Italy's main producers of olive oil and wine, and vast olive groves with huge ancient trees surround the town. Ostuni is known as «the White City», because the houses of its old town are all whitewashed with lime, piling up on the hilltop in a single mass of white crowned by a Gothic cathedral. Inside, narrow lanes, steps and arches wind about, brightened by painted doors and flowerpots. Visitors wander the maze of white lanes up to the cathedral and sit on terraces looking out over the olive groves to the sea on the horizon. The finest view of the whole town is from the road below, especially at sunset.
A maze.
At the top.
Views to the sea.
Ostuni, Brindisi, Apulia, southern Italy
From the road below at sunset.
Yes, from Bari or Lecce.