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Book now your holiday at Tenuta Mastro Francesco to admire all the beauties that Apulia offers its visitors!
You can choose from three magnificent holiday home:
- Trullo Mastro Francesco, for 9 people, a beautiful trullo with lamia and a heated pool to spend magical moments with your family or your friends;
- Villa Falgheri, for 7 people, with panoramic terrace and swimming pool to give you a holiday of complete relaxation;
- Antica Pietra, for 5 people, wonderful villa with 2 wonderful private pools (large and small), ideal for your holiday in Apulia with the family.
Apulia as the Maldives: discovered the first coral reef in Italy, in Monopoli
A new coral reef discovered off the coast of Monopoli, in Apulia. A real expanse of corals so far remained hidden to man. Researchers from the Department of Biology of the University of Bari, led by the director Giuseppe Corriero, discovered the coral reef in Apulia.
The researchers estimated that the new barrier has a length of at least 135 km: in the direction of Bari, on the one hand, and up to Otranto, on the other.
The barrier, similar to those found in Australia, the Maldives or the Red Sea, would be the first example of this kind in the Mediterranean Sea!
To make the Pugliese coral reef unique would be at least two peculiarities. The first is the depth of about 50 meters and the second concerns the habitat and its colors: in the Maldives as well as in Australia, the processes of symbiosis of the madrepores are facilitated by light, while here dominates the penumbra and those marine animals that make up the white corals form impressive structures of calcium carbonate, without algae. The colors of the Italian coral reef are therefore more tenuous: orange, red, purple.
Further explorations will be needed to define the boundaries of this 'wall' of sponges and corals that, according to some hypotheses, could reach up to Salento.
Why has she never been seen before? Because it is really in depth, and only sub professionals with wire-guided robots and cameras have been able to detect it.
And to defend the hidden treasure, the same researchers would have already "informally alerted" the Puglia Parks and Biodiversity Protection Office to make possible the visit to this fantastic marine landscape, but above all to protect our sea from human activities to the maximum harmful.
Book now your holiday at Tenuta Mastro Francesco to admire all the beauties that Apulia offers its visitors!
You can choose from three magnificent holiday home: Trullo Mastro Francesco, for 9 people, a beautiful trullo with lamia and a heated pool to spend magical moments with your family or your friends; Villa Falgheri, for 7 people, with panoramic terrace and swimming pool to give you a holiday of complete relaxation; Antica Pietra, for 5 people, wonderful villa with heated whirlpool and swimming pool, ideal for your holiday in Apulia with the family.