Hotel Riviera Residence Rodi Garganico - Hotels Foggia Puglia

Location: Downtown, Near the sea

Services: Bar, Restaurant, 24-Hour front desk, Parking, Baby Sitting, Facilities for disabled, Internet services, Luggage Storage, Beach, Garden, Amusement park for children, Airport shuttle, Fax/Photocopying, Solarium, Packed lunches, Rooms/facilities for disabled

In the peaceful and relaxing seaside atmosphere of the Gargano, a great blend of services will help make your vacation fun and unique. In fact the hotel has an adjacent, well-equipped private beach with: beach volleyball, canoes and pedalos, showers, changing room and booths, toys for children as well as a bar, solarium and parking lot.

Your stay at the Riviera Residential Hotel in Rodi Garganico will be enhanced by top-quality food; in addition to a lavish breakfast buffet, lunch and dinner offer three menus to choose from featuring Italian dishes with recipes typical of Puglia and the Gargano. And don’t forget that mineral water and bottled DOC wine is included with meals.

Now a picturesque and charming tourist destination, Rodi Garganico greets the visitor with a delightful view through its narrow streets along the Gargano coast and its beautiful hills and inlets.
The small towns of the Gargano are characteristic and picturesque.
The historic town of Peschici seems to grow out of the rocks overlooking the sea. The sparkling-white domed houses coexist with rustic dwellings. Near the town is the Church of Santa Maria di Calena, founded by the Benedictines in the 11th century.
Vieste is undoubtedly one of the oldest towns in the Daunia. It is located in the heart of a marvellous coastal area extending more than 30 km in a fantastic succession of some of the most evocative views in all the Mediterranean. The town’s historic centre, with its narrow streets and stairways between white houses, is even more picturesque.
Tremiti Islands are a fabulous concentration of natural beauties including crags and precipices, bays, rocks and stacks, pine groves and Mediterranean vegetation. They were treasured by Diomedes, the Greek hero who landed here and stayed until he died; legend has it that his companions, whom Venus turned into seabirds called diomedeas, let out a plaintive call on moonlit nights that sounds like a child crying. The Benedictine Abbey and the church of Santa Maria a Mare are not to be missed. This is a place for snorkelling and scuba diving, widely recognised as an intact marine reserve.
Tourists come from all over the world to San Giovanni Rotondo to the tomb of Padre Pio and Monte Sant'Angelo, to the Shrine of San Michele, consecrated to the Archangel in 493. Historians believe the temple rose in the second half of the 6th century on an old Basilian abbey. Another charming area is the picturesque Junno district with its terraced houses.
San Marco in Lamis is also worth a visit: set in a valley surrounded by mountains, its history is interconnected with that of another venerated site: the shrine of San Matteo.
The environment reigns supreme here, with dunes and forests of conifers and hardwoods, rivers of sparkling water and karst grottoes. Gargano National Park is home to more species of birds than the entire Alps, while its 2,000 species of plants account for 35% of those in all of Italy. The wealth of tree species is matched by the number of plants. Recent studies have demonstrated that the Gargano has the greatest number of orchids in Italy; some 250 varieties have been recorded, accounting for 60% of the species present in Europe. The brackish lakes of Lesina and Varano are also of great natural interest.
There is a splendid view of the with its many inlets and beaches of coloured pebbles sheltered by white rock walls plunging down to the sea and pines that are mirrored in the dark blue of the deep water that softens the azure sky. But the greatest spectacle is that of the many beautiful grottoes carved over millennia by the sea and wind out of this unique stretch of coast. And after you have admired all the cliffs, rocks and inlets, it comes time to plunge into the transparent sea.

By car: Highway A14 from Milan to Bari, exiting at the Poggio Imperiale toll plaza; continue on the superhighway to Rodi Garganico.
By bus: daily runs from Lombardia, Tuscany, Emilia Romagna, Piemonte and Lazio.
By train: Foggia or San Severo station Continue with the Ferrovie del Gargano.
By air: Bari, Pescara or Foggia airport.

When you reach Rodi Garganico, continue on the state road to Riviera di Levante (towards Peschici-Vieste). When you come to the Rodi-San Menaio seafront road, near the embarkation point for the Tremiti Islands, continue another 350 metres to the Riviera Residential Hotel.