Vendicari
The reserve between marshes and sea
- Type
- Nature
- As the crow flies
- 14 km
- Direction
- south
The Vendicari Nature Reserve is a strip of coast where brackish marshes meet the sea. It is one of the most important stopovers in the Mediterranean for migrating birds: flamingos, herons, black winged stilts.
Inside the reserve you reach Calamosche beach, a small sandy cove between two rocky headlands, ringed by dunes, with clear water. You can only get there on foot, which is part of why it has stayed as it is.
The old tuna fishery and the Swabian tower remain, from when this coast worked tuna.