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The Parco Nazionale dell'Alta Murgia is a national park in Apulia, southern Italy, established in 2004.It lies in the Murgia geographical area, with its headquarters in the town of Gravina in Puglia, and has an area of 677.39 square kilometres.
Landscape of the Murge plateau. The Altopiano delle Murge (Italian for 'plateau of the Murge') is a karst topographic plateau of rectangular shape in southern Italy. Most of it lies within Puglia and corresponds with the sub-region known as Murgia or Le Murge.
The following 31 pages use this file: Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park; Alta Murgia National Park; Apennine Mountains; Appennino Lucano - Val d'Agri - Lagonegrese National Park
It is 16 kilometres (10 mi) south of Canosa di Puglia and 17 kilometres (11 mi) north of Spinazzola, in the Alta Murgia National Park. The town's economy is based mainly on agriculture and herding. The karstic geology of the area has conditioned its main crops: grapes, olives, wheat, and almonds.
The city is crossed by the SS7 "Via Appia" national road. Altamura railway station, operated by the national company FS and by FAL, is located on the regional lines Rocchetta Sant'Antonio-Altamura-Gioia del Colle (FS), Bari-Altamura-Matera (FAL) and Altamura-Avigliano-Potenza (FAL). Also the municipal localities of Casal Sabini, Marinella and ...
The territory, not only that included in the Alta Murgia National Park, has the typical characteristics of an Apulian karst landscape: sinkholes, karst valleys, among which the upper course of the Lama Balice (otherwise known as the Tiflis stream) is remembered, as well as caves, including the Grave della Ferratella, which is the deepest in the ...
The national parks of Italy are protected natural areas terrestrial, ... Alta Murgia [26] Apulia: 677.39 km 2 (261.54 sq mi) Torre Disperata: 686 m (2,251 ft) 2004:
It is part of the Alta Murgia National Park and was part of the mountain community of South-East of the Murgia Barese Physical geography. the territory extends for about 81 km and part of it is included in the Alta Murgia National Park. The Lagopetto municipal pine forest is one of the attractions of the national park.