Maruggio

Maruggio is a southern Italian town with 5355 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in Puglia in the province of Taranto.

Geography and location

Maruggio located on the north coast of the Gulf of Taranto, about 40 km east of the provincial capital city of Taranto.

These north coast is formed from a small chain of hills and consists mainly of sandy calcareous soil. The highest hills are the Monte Furlano with 90 m slm and the Monte Specchiuddo 72 m slm. Groundwater flows at a depth of 5 to 8 m.

The city has Maruggio the district Contrada Monaco Mirante, Contrada Campo Marino, Contrada Commendam, Contrada Capoccia Scorcialupi and Contrada Acqua Dolce Cirenaica. The neighboring municipalities are Manduria, Sava and Torricella.

Attractions

Noteworthy is the courtyard of the Town Hall ( Palazzo Cittá ) from the 19th century in Via Emanuele near Piazza del Popolo with its palm trees. Also worth seeing is the winding streets between Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza San Giovanni in between the historic church and the library.

Tourism

Maruggio has not a single hotel, but a few small guesthouses on the southern edge of the village, in Campo Marino and Commendam with little more than a total of 50 guest rooms. Nevertheless Maruggio and in particular the port of Campo Marino with its beautiful marina anzusehendem a center of tourism, at least on nice weekends and during the summer months. Then, the population of about 5,500 rises to over 35,000 people, which overwhelmed the entire infrastructure on a regular basis, especially the water and electricity supply. In winter, about 90 % of the property in Campo Marino and 95 % in Commendam are uninhabited. This is because that there is little jobs exist in the wider area, and certainly not lucrative, and the younger generation of the village predominate in northern Italy and abroad and works with family lives there. On weekends and especially during the summer holidays, parents and grandparents are visiting or based mostly owned summer houses with a large entourage. A gastronomic infrastructure with restaurants, cafes and bars is only in Campo Marino and Commeda and is usually open only in July and August. The same applies to leisure activities such as tennis courts, beach clubs and boat rentals.

Center of all activities in the summer Campo Marino with the sandy beach, the marina with 250 boats and the Piazza at Torro Molina. The port is fairly new, but will expire very soon, because the private main owner (51%) of the port and the community Maruggio (49%) are blocking each other in bitter enmity.

Local production

There will be wine, mostly from Primitivo grapes, which comes as the known Zinfandel from Croatia and is rated in the EU since 1999 as identical to this, and cultivated olives with traditional techniques. Since the cultivation is mainly done privately and officially uncontrollably not a reliable indication of quantity production.

In Campo Marino fishing is done with about 20 deep-sea fishing vessels. The estimated yield of marine animals of all kinds is about 50 to 200 kg per day and because of overfishing in the Mediterranean sharply. The silting up of the formerly very deep harbor entrance (4m ) obstructs the entry and departure of the ships rapidly and vehicles with more than 1.6 m Draft in low air pressure conditions partly above ground impossible (as of May 2007).