Fishing Towns of Puglia
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By Dion Protani
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Latest update: 20 November 2023
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This collection of fishing towns of Puglia is a group of half a dozen, situated one after the other in a line along the Adriatic Coast.
Starting from the historic town of Trani, the sequence continues if you head south east along the coast in the direction of Bari. Trani is the biggest town in this collection with an impressive cathedral and a large port where fishermen busily bring in their catches and tend their nets. Bisceglie is the first town you reach after Trani and its much smaller port is no less attractive, with plenty of places to eat and drink while soaking up the views. Molfetta comes next with another distinctive cathedral at the edge of its historic borgo. |
One of my personal favourite towns in Puglia is Giovinazzo: it too has an historic borgo where you'll find some of the impressive architecture that's so typical of Puglia, but it's really the town's fishing port that lives longest in the memory. You can walk around the edge of the tightly clustered buildings of the borgo before entering the port area where you'll find water of the most spectacular blue, and a series of little fishing vessels gently bobbing up and down on the water.
For more of the same it's necessary to give Bari a bit of a wide berth, its attractions are for a different type of day when perhaps you have more time available. Beyond Bari you reach one of Puglia's most popular seaside towns: Polignano a Mare with its little bay called Lama Monachile adorning the cover of magazines and providing one of the most iconic images of the region with its shallow waters enclosed by rocks. The final stop on this little odyssey is the town of Monopoli which contains many of the elements that make Trani and Giovinazzo so appealing: lovely, traditional architecture, an historic borgo and a great little fishing port.
For more of the same it's necessary to give Bari a bit of a wide berth, its attractions are for a different type of day when perhaps you have more time available. Beyond Bari you reach one of Puglia's most popular seaside towns: Polignano a Mare with its little bay called Lama Monachile adorning the cover of magazines and providing one of the most iconic images of the region with its shallow waters enclosed by rocks. The final stop on this little odyssey is the town of Monopoli which contains many of the elements that make Trani and Giovinazzo so appealing: lovely, traditional architecture, an historic borgo and a great little fishing port.
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Trani
Trani, Puglia
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Giovinazzo
Giovinazzo, Puglia
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Molfetta
Molfetta, Puglia
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Polignano A Mare
Polignano a Mare, Puglia
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