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The Route
The stage course combines a flat start and a challenging second half across the Gargano. From Giovinazzo to Manfredonia, the route unfolds on straight roads along the Adriatic coast. Past Manfredonia, the profile changes considerably as the route takes in the Monte Sant’Angelo climb, and then winds its way along the coastal road, following the constant undulations all the way to Vieste.
Final kilometres
The closing circuit (14.5 km) initially features a steep climb up Via Saragat (approx. 1 km, peaking as high as 15-17%), followed by a long false-flat down, which leads back onto the coast. The route then levels out over the final 2 km. The home straight (1,000 m) is on 7.5 m wide tarmac.
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Giovinazzo
Overview
Fascinating seaside village with an ancient heart, with the dolmen of San Silvestro, the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta is one of the most delightful medieval villages located on the Adriatic.
With its characteristic marina and the splendid fortified promenade with a walkway over the sea, it offers clean beaches and, at dusk, lights up with locals.
Food
Among the dishes to savor in this beautiful city we find: the famous “pizzella” the delicious “brasciole” and the typical “favetta with chicory” as well as many other delicious dishes.
Points of interest
The splendid Fontana dei Tritoni dominates Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, the center of city life. Going beyond the arches of the graceful “Old Center” along the characteristic “Cathedral Street” you reach the Romanesque Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, which houses the Byzantine icon of the Madonna di Corsignano, the patron saint celebrated in August.
In the coastal Murgia, not far from the town, stands the dolmen of San Silvestro.
In December 2016, the Citadel of Culture was inaugurated, which houses the municipal library, spaces for students and cultural initiatives. The library is named after Don Filippo Roscini (1918-1992), a young historian and writer.
Vieste (Gargano)
Overview
It is the easternmost municipality of the Gargano promontory and of the province of Foggia. The particular urban location of Vieste is linked to the karst nature of the Garganico Promontory. The numerous archaeological sites and finds found in different areas attest to the population of the territory of Vieste since the Paleolithic era. Surely this was due to the mild climate, the different sources of drinking water and the fertile soil.
The territory of Vieste, rich in flint, allowed man in Prehistory to create lithic artefacts used as tools for work, hunting or defense. In the Defensola district, three kilometers from the town, a flint mine was discovered, defined as the oldest in Europe.
At the entrance of the village, on the ‘Castello’ beach, south of the town, stands a white limestone monolith, almost 25 meters high, called Pizzomunno, almost the symbol of the Gargano town, almost to guard Vieste.
Vieste owes its tourist appeal, which makes it the first tourist destination in Puglia and among the first Italian tourist destinations, thanks to Enrico Mattei who, in the sixties, after flying over the Gargano by plane, bet on the natural beauty of the Garganica city founding the Pugnochiuso Tourist Center.
Food
The most characteristic culinary products include troccoli with stuffed cuttlefish sauce, stuffed aubergines, fish soup (ciambott), k’lustr (fried and covered Christmas sweets covered with honey and almonds), calzungidd (stuffed desserts) of chickpea and cocoa paste), the castaggnedd (biscuits with almonds and cocoa), the mustazzul (biscuits with cooked wine and cloves), the taradd nglppet (biscuits with sugar glaze,) the chickpea jam, the pettole, troccoli, dried tomatoes in oil, orecchiette with turnip tops and taralli with fennel and white wine. Some traditional local cheeses [13] are made with Podolica cow’s milk.
Another important and characteristic product of the Viennese territory is extra virgin olive oil which is produced in good quantity and excellent quality.
Points of interest
The landscape element of strong appeal is the Arch of San Felice, excavated from erosion on the coast south of Vieste, in the direction of Pugnochiuso. Continuing south, the sea caves are the result of karst phenomena and the corrosive action of sea water and wind. Among the caves are the Grotta Sfondata, the two-eye cave, the Grotta Rotonda, dei Pipistrelli, del Serpente and the Smeralda.
The lighthouse of Vieste rises on the rock of Santa Eufemia (located between the rocks of Santa Croce and San Francesco), right in front of the city. Its position proved to be strategic for the shipping routes between the middle and lower Adriatic. It was designed in 1867 and the tower on which the lantern is located is located on the old home of the lantern, which today, thanks to complete automation, is uninhabited. A cave was discovered on the islet of Santa Eufemia in 1987, which has at least 200 votive inscriptions on its internal walls in Greek and Latin, made by sailors passing through the island; some of these in honor of Venus Sosandra (goddess of the sea and savior of men) dating from the third century BC. to the late Roman age.
The Nobiletti administration inaugurated the “Michele Petrone” Civic Archaeological Museum on 27 June 2019 which develops inside the former Capuchin convent “Blessed Virgin of the Angels”, near the church of SS. Sacrament.
The museum is named after dr. Michele Petrone (1867 – 1935) physician with a great interest in archeology and local history that allowed him to put together a rich archaeological collection including epigraphs with ancient Greek text found in Vieste in the nineteenth century inside the property Abatantuono, the so-called “messapic inscriptions”, the rich nucleus of transport amphorae and anchors in stone and lead, testimony of the ancient Viennese seafaring vocation in Roman and late antiquity.
On the first floor there is the rich kit of the “Elite Tomb”, found in 2006 under the courtyard of the Palazzo Comunale di Vieste and numerous other finds from various funerary items from the Roman age.
The exhibition of the finds, together with the information system rich in multimedia elements, creates a fascinating historical and archaeological itinerary of the history of the territory of Vieste from prehistory to the late Roman age, passing from the cult of Venus Sosandra to the farms of Merino, to the Necropolis’ la salata ‘.
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