national park
Foresta Umbra
An ancient beech and oak forest at the heart of Gargano National Park, a shady detour on the Puglian spur.
20 km · about 25 min drive
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Carpino
Apulia, Italy · Europe
About Carpino
Carpino is worth a stop: 15 minutes from Cagnano Varano, 20km from Foresta Umbra.
Carpino is in Apulia, Italy, with about 3,800 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Cagnano Varano, about 7 km away.
Carpino (Pugliese: Carpìne) is a coastal town and comune of the Italian region of Apulia, lying on the Gargano peninsula.
The town's name has been linked to the rebirth of the traditional folk songs of Gargano, which have artistic value and deserve to be preserved and studied. The group "Cantori di Carpino" (CarpinoRead more
Singers), by reinterpreting ancient tarantellas, has enabled the development of a broadly articulated project regarding the traditional popular music of southern Italy.
The town's main square, now called the "Piazza del Popolo", or People's Square, is the historic home of the folk music festival and its influences. The Carpino Folk Festival is an event that includes several cultural elements, brought together under a single symbol, with the performing arts, and especially music, dance, and theater with popular roots, but also workshops, conferences, roundtables, workshops, presentations of literature and cinema, with a full program of live performances, original and energetic, showing the richness and musical diversity of an area that has many natural resources, as well as landscape and historical importance. The festival has high artistic achievements and standards, although it has not yet fully exploited its material in a structured, integrated and accessible way, to represent real strategic factors in economic and social development.
Standing on a hill which has many well tended olive trees, Carpino has been dubbed "Città dell’olio" (Oil Town) because of its business of producing olive oil. Noteworthy are the archaeological site of the "grotte di Minutille" (the Minutille caves), the Church of the Holy Cross, the Church of Saint George, and the Church of Saint Cyril.
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Within an hour or so of Carpino: Foresta Umbra (20 km), Vieste & Pizzomunno (27 km).
Where is Carpino?
Carpino is in Apulia, Italy, about 7 km from Cagnano Varano.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 3,802
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Italy
- Region
- Apulia
- Timezone
- Europe/Rome
- Coordinates
- 41.8445, 15.8571
Emergency & Services
Essential numbers in Italy
ACI roadside assistance: 803 116. ZTL (limited traffic zones) in city centres are camera-enforced.
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Worth the detour from Carpino
2 notable places within an hour's drive.
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Vieste & Pizzomunno
A whitewashed Gargano headland town beside the towering Pizzomunno sea stack and golden beaches.
27 km · about 30 min drive
Driving in Italy
- Drives on
- the right
- Petrol
- ~€1.82/litre
- Motorway tolls
- ~€8.50/100km
When to drive here
April to October
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