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5km far from Rodi Garganico, Lido del Sole was set up as a sort of open village in a Mediterranean style. Independent villas, terraced houses, restaurants, supermarkets, shops, chemistry’s, discos, amusement arcades, water theme park in the surroundings and many other facilities to entertain your stay for a quiet and thoughtless holiday.
The Sea
You can reach both the northern and the southern sandy coasts of the Gargano from rentals in Rodi Garganico and Lido del Sole. To the north you can get to Marina di Lesina through Vieste and Peschici, whereas to the south you can get to Manfredonia through the Zagare Bay and the Baia dei Faraglioni.
Keeping the road to Rodi Garganico you get to the Gargano S.S.V highway that links Lesina and its popular lake. If you love sandy beaches and lake landscape, just take one of the many exits leading to the coast of the Varano lake or the Lesina lake to get to the sea. But if you prefer coasts, beaches and a sea near the pinewood, with quiet corners and solitary bays, just go towards Vico del Gargano and you can have a stop in the charming Peschici or decide to get to Vieste along the coast road.
You can also go southwards and get to Manfredonia, then keep on to the white village of Mattinata with gravelly beaches and rocky shores. Between Mattinata and Vieste, the coast road gets you to the most popular bays in the Gargano.
The Nature
The promontory of Gargano is also a National Park where the flora and the fauna (especially birds) are very important. The park houses one of the largest forests in Europe, the Umbra Forest. Starting from San Menaio and taking either the road to Cagnano Varano or the road to Monte Sant'Angelo you can easily get to Bosco Quarto. Hiking and mountain-biking are possible there.
The promontory of Gargano is a dream land with natural and wild beauties. There are some of the most popular beaches and bays in Italy, but also pinewoods, forests, wildlife as well as important historic and archaeological sites.
The History, the archaeology
Since ancient times, the Gargano has been populated by both animals and people. It is considered as the cradle of this region and it’s a charming place to discover. In the surroundings of Rignano Garganico, there is the Paglicci grotto and its annexed museum testifying the human presence by jewels and graffitoes dating back to the Palaeolithic period. In Mattinata dinosaurs’ footprints were founded on calcareous rocks. It’s thought that the albatross (a mythological bird) was born in the Gargano. The wonderful Tremiti Islands are also called after the name of these birds “the Diomedeans”.
Gargano, the cradle of faith
Pilgrims and crusaders started from the Sacred Mountain of Gargano to get to Holy Land. They began their journey after a prayer in the St. Michael’s grotto. Since those times, pilgrims have been gathered in a beautiful shrine, that is visited by millions of pilgrims today. Monte Sant'Angelo is only 25kms far from San Giovanni Rotondo. It’s the charming and historic final destination of the Lombard road (the pilgrims’ road) where still stand St. Mary of Stignano’s church and St. Matthew’s convent near San Marco in Lamis.
San Giovanni Rotondo and Father Pio of Pietrelcina
In the heart of Gargano, San Giovanni Rotondo is one of the most popular religious destinations for pilgrims. The promontory of Gargano has always been an open land where men and women, both in the past and in present times, are looking for hope. It’s the gate to the east, rich of hospitality, spirituality, natural and historic beauties. It firstly gathered the Christian message and broadened it to all over the world.
