Parc

Parco Naturale Regionale di Porto Selvaggio

Name: Parco Naturale Regionale di Porto Selvaggio
Address: Via Litoranea Sant'Isidoro - Santa Caterina, Nardò, Puglia, IT

Recommandé par 456 habitants,

Conseils des habitants

Serena

May 4, 2016

Breathtaking landscape!

Andrea

May 21, 2014

Natura incontaminata, mare stupendo, parco naturale.

Eugenio

March 21, 2020

The Regional Nature Park of Porto Selvaggio, covers an area of 1100 hectares in the municipality of Nardò and is part of an area by the sea, where reforestation has been started since the 50s. The landscape, which used to be bare and rocky, is nowadays characterised by a thick pine forest, surrounded by the wonderful Ionian Sea. The habitat is mostly covered by forests, but there are also pseudo-steppe paths, the habitats rich with grasses and annual plants and jagged cliff. The visitor has the chance to watch foxes, weasels, hedgehogs, chameleons and, during the bird migration season, also blackbirds, thrushes and hoopoes, beside the lesser kestrels and the kestrels. A few metres away from the coast, it is also possible to visit he Palude del Capitano (Marsh), where there are the “spunnulate”, that is to say caves, the result of karst phenomena, whose vault has collapsed creating small salt-water lakes.