Ostuni (BR) - The White City
Ostuni (Stùn in Ostuni dialect) (IPA: [o'stuni]) is an Italian town of 31 197 inhabitants [1] in the province of Brindisi in Puglia. Also known as the White City, due to its characteristic historic center in the past it was entirely painted with white lime. Renowned tourist center, from 1994 to 2018 it received the Blue flag and the five sails of Legambiente for the cleaning of the waters of its coast and for the quality of the services offered. Furthermore, in 2005 the Puglia region recognized the town as a "tourist resort". "Ostuni is the panoramic city par excellence, every house is a belvedere, every trattoria belongs to the Bellavista, at every window there is a poet who gazes at the plain below the olive trees that change color at all winds [...] In Ostuni the houses are white, of milk and lime, they are white to the point of hurting the eyes, the walls, the windows, the doors, the stairs are white, everything is improbably white. [...] One goes to Ostuni to understand what it means to be sheltered from the sun [...] so as not to desire more novels, to no longer think about distant journeys, here there is the charm of all the cities of the seas South, here is the equator close at hand. " (Ettore Della Giovanna)