Not from the town boundary. From the square you would actually live on.
| The sea | 11 km · 15 minutes by car · bathing water classed Excellent on the EU scale |
| The hospital | 3 minutes, in town: emergency department, cardiology, general surgery, internal medicine, orthopaedics, obstetrics |
| Brindisi airport | 46 km · about 50 minutes, direct flights across Europe |
| Taranto Grottaglie airport | 38 minutes |
| Bari airport | about 110 minutes |
| Lecce | about 50 minutes |
| Taranto | about 40 minutes, a city of 186,011 |
| The railway station | 650 metres · 9 minutes on foot, on the Sud Est line, being rebuilt end to end |
| Rome | direct fast trains from Brindisi and Lecce |
Manduria sits at 40.4004° N, 17.6349° E, 77 metres above sea level, in the province of Taranto, on the hinge between the Ionian and Adriatic sides of Salento, Puglia.
Manduria is a town of 29,528. That number decides the tax regime and very little else, because nobody’s life stops at a municipal boundary.
Within 35 kilometres of Piazza Garibaldi there are 39 towns and 433,875 people, and 1,081 of them hold western European, North American, Australian or New Zealand citizenship. Taranto, with another 186,011, sits immediately beyond that line. Put differently: you are moving to the centre of a catchment of well over half a million people, and paying what a town of 29,528 costs.
That is where the hospitals, the specialists, the airports, the shops you cannot find here and the people you will end up having dinner with actually are. Half an hour of flat, empty provincial road, which in most of Europe is what people drive to reach a supermarket.
The count comes from Istat, resident population by citizenship at 1 January 2025, using the same definition as our published study. It excludes Ostuni, Brindisi and Taranto, which fall just outside the radius, so it is a floor and not a ceiling.
Who those 1,081 people are, town by town →The land here is flat. Manduria stands 77 metres above the sea and the roads out of it barely rise, which is why half the town still does its errands on two wheels at seventy.
| The Messapian walls and the Fonte Pliniano | 2 km · 5 to 8 minutes |
| Uggiano Montefusco | 7.7 km · 21 to 31 minutes |
| Sava, the next town | 8 km · 22 to 32 minutes |
| Borraco, the first stretch of coast | 10 km · 28 to 41 minutes |
| Erchie | 11 km · 30 to 45 minutes |
| Avetrana | 11.5 km · 31 to 46 minutes |
| San Pietro in Bevagna, the marina | 15 km · 41 to 60 minutes |
Road distance, not straight line. The range runs between a trained pace and an unhurried one. The sea is an hour each way: a Sunday, not an errand. We would rather tell you that than sell you a beach next door.
Manduria has sixteen kilometres of its own coastline, from Borraco through the mouth of the Chidro to San Pietro in Bevagna, Specchiarica and Torre Colimena, with a protected dune reserve along most of it. San Pietro in Bevagna has held the Blue Flag in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
In August the marina fills and the old town stays quiet, which is the arrangement most people actually want. In February the piazza is still in use and the coast is empty. The tour buses go to Gallipoli and to Ostuni, and we would like to keep it that way.