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Rates & avialability per week

Period	Price
May	250.00 €
June	350.00 €
August 1 -10	800.00 €
August 24 - 31	600.00 €
September	350.00 €
Other months	250.00 €

Rates & avialability per night

Period	Price
May	50.00 €
June	80.00 €
August 1 -10	100.00 €
August 24 - 31	80.00 €
September	50.00 €

Rates & avialability per month

Period	Price
May	800.00 €
June	1200.00 €
September	700.00 €
Other months	600.00 €

• Rates include light water and gas.

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Italia Puglia Marina di OtrantoPorto Badisco/Ref: 6170
Owner Name	Mr Porto Badisco
Tel	3471124951
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Porto Badisco

Beautiful natural harbour. Located south of Otranto, owns rocky coast and crystalline water. In the area there are boats for trips and excursions. Beautiful the seabed and the nature surrounding the breathtaking landscape and the fragrance Mediterranean.

Otranto

The immediate vicinity of Otranto were probably already inhabited by Paleolithic, certainly from the Neolithic, the city was populated by Messapi, race that preceded the Greeks, and then - conquered by them - entered the Magna Greece and, again, fell into the hands of the Romans, becoming City Hall soon.

The importance of its port was the take on the role of bridge between east and west. Otranto was centre Byzantine and Gothic, then Norman, Swabian, and Angevin aragonese. In its splendid cathedral, built between 1080 and 1088, in 1095 was given the blessing to twelve thousand Crusaders who, under the command of Prince Bohemond I d'Altavilla (1050-1111), started to liberate and to protect the Holy Sepulchre. Returning from the Holy Land, just in Otranto St Francis of Assisi was raised up in 1219, welcomed with great honors. In Otranto, September 11, 1227, had died as a result of malaria langravio the Thueringen, husband of St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

In 1480 it was conquered by the Turks, they did massacre of the population during the Battle of Otranto, killing 800 people: these are the famous blessed Martyrs idruntini. The Turks also destroyed the Monastery of St. Nicholas of Casole (just south of Otranto). In this monastery, the monks Basilian had constituted the largest library in addition to the then West have established the first college in history that housed children from all over Europe came to study in Otranto. It was one of these monks (Pantaleone) the monumental mosaic floor (the largest in Europe) in the cathedral. Codes products in this monastery are now kept in the best libraries of Europe, from Paris to London from Berlin to Moscow.

Puglia/Molise

Puglia is the easternmost region of Italy: Punta Palascìa at Otranto, in Salento, is about 80 km off the coasts of Albania and is the most east of the country.

It is wet from March Adriatic and the Ionian Sea and is the region of mainland with the longest extension coastline. Apart from the sea, borders in the region are marked by the river Fortore, Subappennino Dauno and depression bradanica. Unless the final stretch dell'Ofanto, no river is navigable Pugliese. The inland waters are scarce and include mainly some coastal lakes, including those of Lesina and Varano and lakes Alimini. Lake Occhito, on the border with Molise, is a reservoir created recently dall'Acquedotto Pugliese to face frequent water crisis in the region.

Its territory is flat for 53.3%, for the hilly and mountainous 45.3% only for the 1, 5% making it the less mountainous region of Italy. The mountains are higher in subappennino Dauno, where touching the 1152 Monte Cornacchia m, 1145 m of Mount Saraceno and 1105 m of Mount Crispignano, and Gargano with 1055 m of Mount Calvo.

The plains are formed by Tavoliere of Puglia, which occupies nearly half the Capitanata, the coast of Bari of Earth and the Plains Salentina. The hilly territory is divided between Pugliese Murge and greenhouses Salento. The only elements are in mountainous province of Foggia and are subappennino The Dauno [5] (also known by the names Monti Daunians or mountains of Daunia).