we plan to park at Via Salvatore Tomassi in Ostuni. I wonder if we could get this view of Ostuni hilltop town from the carpark? We will drive from Locorotondo Piazza Antonio Mitrano carpark and there are 3 options of routes, 2 from South (SP14 & SP17) and 1 from North (SS16). If we took SS16 we could get the hilltop view of Ostuni BUT from the back. whilst most of the route coming from the south would be covered by buildings of the modern town or is there any opening for the old town view uphill?
the picture is on top right hand side named Panorama of Ostuni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostuni
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
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I "walked" along Via Salvatore Tommasi on Google Street View --- it sure looks like the same view of the town, but not at street level. Maybe the photo was taken from one of the apartment buildings nearby.
By the way, my husband is an expert in driving in Italy and I am a pretty good navigator with Google Maps on my iPhone, AND we had instructions, but we had to circle Ostuni several times during our stay there to find the exact way to get to various places to park next to the old town and just outside the old town. It was often easier to just park anywhere close and walk.
You could try contacting the photographer and asking him or her --- I've done that in Wikipedia Commons a few times.
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OP
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hi nancyscherer8
thank you! i also read about the difficulty of using gmaps and better using a GPS unit. so i plan to just use my Garmin for Ittria Valley area. what makes it difficult for the gmaps to navigate? is it a one way only or a ZTL sign? We'll come from Locorotondo via SP14 so we'd come from the south passing the more modern town.
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Saint Paul, Minnesota
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Yes, one way streets, streets that look like a regular street on the map or iPhone but that in real life look like somebody's incredibly steep and narrow driveway, traffic circles where it's hard to see quickly enough which is the correct road to get off on, complicated road signs that are showing several ways to turn off the road you are on but all except one have a problem about them (ZTL, one way, dead end --- I actually have a photo of one such sign) so by the time you've understood the sign you've already gone the wrong way, roads that seem to be heading straight for the place you want to go to but in fact pass right by it (and vice versa) --- you'll get where you want to go, but it may just take a few tries. Ostuni is so worth it --- I'd go back there tomorrow if I could.
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i thought that kind of ZTL is only in Rome. the one that we'd be too late to realize and no chance for making a turn. did you remember where it is exactly? I'd come from Locorotondo , south of the town direction