Around Abbazia Santa Maria di Cerrate
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.52 mi
- Elevation gain
- 36 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Easy
- Elevation loss
- 66 ft
- Max elevation
- 78 ft
- TrailRank
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60
5
- Min elevation
- 3 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 17 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1049
- Uploaded
- November 1, 2011
- Recorded
- November 2011
near Casalabate, Puglia (Italia)
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Itinerary description
But luckily there is a lot more to see then olive trees. The vegetation is quite varied and there are several pajaras and masserias on the way. There are also 2 geocaches on the route. Check out the pictures with this hike as well as with the waypoints if you want to get a preview.
Waypoints
Car park
-0 ft
Abbazia Santa Maria di Cerrate
The starting point of the hike. You can visit this old Abbey. Abbey is accessible every day from 9:30 to 13:30 and from 14:30 to 19:30. For more details, visit Wikipedia (only in Italian): http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbazia_Santa_Maria_a_Cerrate_(Lecce)
Archaeological site
52 ft
Pajara 1
Pajara is the name of a distinctive country residence built with local stone in authentic Apulian style. Good for some pictures.
Geocache
0 ft
Geocache: GC45NCP
A nice cache at the start (or end) of the hike. For details and exact location see: http://coord.info/GC45NCP
Geocache
0 ft
Geocache: GC239XP
A nice to visit on this hike. For details see: http://coord.info/GC239XP
Mountain hut
-0 ft
Masseria Coccioli
A beautiful masseria. During the summer time, you'll be able to spend some time here. There is a small pool and it also has some rooms for rent. Owners are Swedish and speak English (which is not the case at most masserias). Contact no: +39 389 18 25 845
Mountain hut
-0 ft
Masseria Giampaolo
Another masseria that you pass on this hike. Not sure if it's open for public in the summer.
Mountain hut
-0 ft
Masseria Monacelli
Another beautiful masseria. For more details and pictures see: http://www.tenutamonacelli.com/
Mountain hut
-0 ft
Masseria Rauccio
This is a building with information about the region. It has a few WWF flags, but not very sure about it's function as it was closed
Archaeological site
46 ft
Pajara 3
Pajara is the name of a distinctive country residence built with local stone in authentic Apulian style. Good for some pictures.
Archaeological site
43 ft
Pajara 2
Pajara is the name of a distinctive country residence built with local stone in authentic Apulian style. Good for some pictures.
Hiking
0 ft
Shortcut - End
If you don't want to walk the whole hike, but only want to visit the geocache, then you can go from this point to "Shortcut - Start" directly to reduce the hike to about 5 km.
Hiking
60 ft
Shortcut - Start
If you don't want to walk the whole hike, but only want to visit the geocache, then you can go from this point to "Shortcut - End" directly to reduce the hike to about 5 km.
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Beautiful - we liked it and can only recommend this trail