The best walks and hikes around Acquaviva Delle Fonti

Cassano delle Murge is known as the "forest city" due to its proximity to the Mercadante Forest, an important regional forest area spanning over 1,300 hectares and popular for hiking and outdoor activities. The town boasts a medieval historic center centered around the ancient mother church of Santa Maria Assunta.

There are picknick tables on both sides of the footpath, but no BBQ is allowed

Trulli - or trullo when you’re talking about just one dwelling - were initially built to provide temporary field shelters and storehouses. Over time they also became permanent dwellings for agricultural families and labourers of smallholdings. The simple traditional lime whitewash that decorates the trulli’s exterior complements the local geology and pastoral landscapes. To protect against the elements and balance the temperature all year round, the trulli walls are incredibly thick, made up of a double skin filled with rubble. Similarly, the doorways and windows are small. These iconic rural dwellings began appearing as early as the 14th century, and their popularity originated because of a 15th century decree that made urban settlers pay taxes to the crown under feudal rule. If the king’s inspectors came collecting, the villagers could easily demolish these inexpensive buildings into a pile of stones and hide in the forest, and then rebuild them once they’d gone.

Trulli - or trullo when you’re talking about just one dwelling - were initially built to provide temporary field shelters and storehouses. Over time they also became permanent dwellings for agricultural families and labourers of smallholdings. The simple traditional lime whitewash that decorates the trulli’s exterior complements the local geology and pastoral landscapes. To protect against the elements and balance the temperature all year round, the trulli walls are incredibly thick, made up of a double skin filled with rubble. Similarly, the doorways and windows are small. These iconic rural dwellings began appearing as early as the 14th century, and their popularity originated because of a 15th century decree that made urban settlers pay taxes to the crown under feudal rule. If the king’s inspectors came collecting, the villagers could easily demolish these inexpensive buildings into a pile of stones and hide in the forest, and then rebuild them once they’d gone.

Trulli - or trullo when you’re talking about just one dwelling - were initially built to provide temporary field shelters and storehouses. Over time they also became permanent dwellings for agricultural families and labourers of smallholdings. The simple traditional lime whitewash that decorates the trulli’s exterior complements the local geology and pastoral landscapes. To protect against the elements and balance the temperature all year round, the trulli walls are incredibly thick, made up of a double skin filled with rubble. Similarly, the doorways and windows are small. These iconic rural dwellings began appearing as early as the 14th century, and their popularity originated because of a 15th century decree that made urban settlers pay taxes to the crown under feudal rule. If the king’s inspectors came collecting, the villagers could easily demolish these inexpensive buildings into a pile of stones and hide in the forest, and then rebuild them once they’d gone.

Trulli - or trullo when you’re talking about just one dwelling - were initially built to provide temporary field shelters and storehouses. Over time they also became permanent dwellings for agricultural families and labourers of smallholdings. The simple traditional lime whitewash that decorates the trulli’s exterior complements the local geology and pastoral landscapes. To protect against the elements and balance the temperature all year round, the trulli walls are incredibly thick, made up of a double skin filled with rubble. Similarly, the doorways and windows are small. These iconic rural dwellings began appearing as early as the 14th century, and their popularity originated because of a 15th century decree that made urban settlers pay taxes to the crown under feudal rule. If the king’s inspectors came collecting, the villagers could easily demolish these inexpensive buildings into a pile of stones and hide in the forest, and then rebuild them once they’d gone.

Built around the first half of the seventeenth century, the Church of San Rocco is one of the oldest places of worship in the historic centre of the city of Cassano delle Murge . Home to the Confraternity of San Rocco since 1867, it has a cuspidate façade. Its exterior is completed by a beautiful portal surmounted by a niche with an adjoining curvilinear frame, which enclosed, before the theft, a stone statue of San Rocco. In the upper part of the façade there is a cornice flanked by a heart-shaped perforated window and a bell gable. The interior of the Church of San Rocco has a single nave, with three arches on both the left and right sides, where medallions depicting the life of San Rocco are placed. The marble altar is noteworthy, on the upper part of which is placed the wooden statue of San Rocco covered by a red cloak. The decorations inside the church are wonderful, completed by a painting depicting flights of angels.

The Marchesale Miani Perotti Palace is a baroque building in the center of the town of Cassano Murge. Reachable on foot from every part of the town, it represents the symbol of local culture. Inside the palace, in fact, it is possible to visit an art gallery and a municipal library, as well as having the opportunity to attend musical events and conferences in some of the rooms.