The Murgia is a vast rural area representing one the most distinctive aspects of the apulian landscape.

In the westward direction the hills height is 600 m, while in the area orientated towards the coast, the countryside gradually becomes flatter and flatter. Here there are huge tracts of olive groves.

Alta Murgia is the firs rural park in Italy, showing a bared aspect characterised by the presence of geological phenomena such as dolines, caves, providing a rich habitat for various species. This area is also rich of historical and architectural elements (trulli, masserie, jazzi) as the result of a process of stratification which has produced a vary complex system of relationships between man and the natural environment.

One of the most distinctive feautures of the land is constituted by projections of rock, which are probably the effect of a series of human activities such as deforestation, pasture, cereal growing combined with erosion of limestone produced by the wind and heavy winter rain. During spring and autumn, the mild climate stimulates the rebirth of vegetation which includes more than 1.500 species (especially moss, lichens and the Cardoncello, a rare species of mushoom).

The area surrounding the pastures provides a rich habitat for endemic species such as Iris pseudomila, Crocrus thomasi and wide orchids (orchys and ophrys). The treed area is also characterised by the presence of bushes (brumble, hawthorn) and plants (thyme, asparagus). The grassy mantle is characterised by the presence of weeds and thistle.

Some plants have adopted particular systems of adaptation such as the thickening of leaves cuticle in order to stand the arid climate, or a sort of down through which leaves reflect sun light and diminish water evaporation. A limited area is characterised by the presence of forests of roverella (a particular species of oak), almond-trees and vines.