Taranto - Physical Geography

Physical Geography

Taranto faces the Ionian Sea. It is 14.5 metres above sea level. It was built on a plain running north/northwest - southeast, and surrounded by the Murgia plateau from the north west to the east. Its territory extends for 209,64 km2 and is mostly underwater. It is characterised by three natural peninsulars and a man-made island, formed by digging a ditch during the construction of Aragon Castle. The city is known as the "city of two seas" because it is washed by the Great Sea in the bay between Punta Rondinella to the northwest and Capo San Dante to the south, and by the vast reservoir of the Little Sea.