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You can spend a holiday in absolute relax in the innumerable beaches sunbathing and swimming in blue and clear waters among the most beautiful of Italy.
Salento is a real paradise for sportsmen and for who wants to spend an active and healthy holiday.
You can walk or ride everywhere on the long coasts and the paths of the Salento’s hills. Keens on mountain bike find in this territory the ideal climatic conditions and routes of any degree of difficulty to devote themselves to their favourite sport during all year. Local travel agencies propose different daily excursions in surrounding booking on the premises. You can spend cheerful carefree days in the parks and amusing summer nights in the discos, pubs and night locals.
SPORT
Salento is an ideal place to dedicate oneself to windsurf, to sail, to rowing, to water skiing, to immersions and to pleasure sailing. Schools and water sports clubs are numerous. You can find tennis courts and swimming – pools among the sports facilities, recreation grounds and Hotels and you can ride too.
Maps, guides and more detailed information are easily available nearby the tourist offices.
RECREATION AND AQUATIC PARKS
Recreation parks
Gallipoli
The aquatic park SPLASH in Gallipoli is one of the most famous on the coast of Apulia. This complex is completely immersed in greenery and it has a tropical scenery whit beautiful landscape gardens.
There are different swimming – pools. The attractions include waterslides 11m high for 104m of length. This park has other entertainments as: soap football, water dodgem, elastic carpets, animation whit games, amusement arcades, beach volley and skating.
There are also picnic areas for your solace, bars, restaurants, sandwich shops and disco.
Where is it situated?
Splash Parco Acquatico
Santa Maria al Bagno coast 73014 Gallipoli (LE)
tel. and fax: 0833 273400
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www.spalshparco.it
How to arrive: by car: motorway Bari – Brindisi – Lecce – Gallipoli and 101 Lecce – Gallipoli highway. By train: Lecce station, local Trains to Gallipoli.
When do you can go there?: from 15 June to 14 September everyday from 10a.m. to 6p.m.
How much is the ticket?: entire ticket euro 13, cheap ticket euro 7.
NATURE RESERVES
“Le Cesine” oasis is one of many protected areas which are managed and defended by WWF in Italy in order to preserve and to protect habitats and rare and threatened species. You can reach this
Oasis from the 611 San Cataldo - Otranto coast or from other towns as Vanze and Acaja, Vernole’s hamlets. It is situated in Apulia, in the province of Lecce.
You can have more information on the Web sites:
http://www.comune.vernole.le.it
http://www.wwf.it
EXCURSIONS
Lecce
Extraordinary city of art, it is an almost obligatory destination to visit during holiday.
The city sightseeing tour foresees a visit to the most famous monuments of roman and medieval age.
Otranto
A trip to discover this beautiful city, the only one in the world (proposed by local agencies).
Taranto
You can discover and admire the landscapes, the coloured and beautiful countries going through charming valleys (proposed by local agencies).
Walk to Alimini Lakes
Motorships, hydrofoils, ferries and catamarans ensure daily connections between the different resorts to lakes. Daily cruises by boat and a ferry for travellers/cars are possible.
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Bus & Bike
Excursions by mountain bike on Monte Grappa whit a bikes transport by bus.
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Discovering Salento
Excursions and guided visits to monuments and to the most characteristic places whit voluntaries of the Youthful Tourist Centre (Ctg).
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