Activities

For those who love to fly and want to see more of this world, in Cellino San Marco there is an airfield: a centre with a school, a fleet of planes and an equipped runway.

A dream for all those who love to look at the world from above and enjoy the spectacle of the splendid Salento area.

In the sports complex theoretical lectures are held in the classroom followed by practice with the school's aircraft. At the end of the courses you are able to perform 'solo flights' for those who start and do advanced levels for experts who want to carry passengers.

The complex occupies about 7 hectares and the 600-meter runway is grass and is immersed in the Mediterranean scrub. A hangar with 7 boxes and 21 placess completes the facilities of the centre together with the clubhouse for the members.
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The visit to the nature park starts by climbing onto a small train that leads to the Curtipetrizzi Forest for an excursion where you can admire and study the beauty of the forest, focusing on the flora and fauna.

You will be able to find nature in the sounds, colours, shapes and scents that were those that once covered the entire landscape of Puglia. In this area of ​​the park there are also various thematic areas such as the "World of Fairy Tales in the Woods", the "World of Gnomes", "La Giungla" - the "village of Tarzan" up to the Jurassic area set up with dinosaurs inside the wood.

The minizoo is an area of ​​the forest in which different types of animals live in large open spaces: Tibetan goats, camels, dromedaries, eagles, owls, donkeys, mouflons (wild sheep), Highland cows, Indian ducks, zebras, ponies, deer, llamas , etc.

The park is divided into three large aquatic areas "Isla Encantada", "Isla Dorada" and "Isla Natascia" for a total of 20,000 square meters of Caribbean pools and 200,000 square meters with beds, lawns and swimming pools.

You can enjoy yourself in over 3 km of water slides, aquatube and twisters and relax in the solarium terraces and in the pleasant whirlpool and on the rocks with waterfalls.

Note that the lagoon has the largest waves in Italy for guaranteed fun. And what could the carers for children be called? Meet Wandy, Teo and obviously Captain Cellino.

In spring and summer Cellino becomes the reference point for thousands of visitors thanks to the great attractiveness of Carrisiland, the largest water park in Italy, all immersed in a magnificent olive grove.

The park was designed to combine a playing area in the actual Aquatic park and an educational area with a natural park where you enter the Curtipetrizzi wood and walk on the Briganti route to discover the history of Cellino San Marco and Puglia.

In addition to the introduction to history, children are accompanied in the discovery of nature with the illustration of the plants of the forest and a visit to a mini-zoo where they can come into contact with animals from the area.

In the park there are restaurants and picnic areas, inflatable playgrounds for the little ones and you can see shows in the Palatexas.

The forest of Curtipetrizzi in Cellino San Marco represents a cross-section of the forest that once covered this area of Salento that is famous since the pre-Roman period for its vegetation.

The forest has since been supplanted over the centuries by crops but one example has survived in Cellino San Marco because an area was enclosed by Count Balsamo, in fact the name Curtipetrizzi means "place closed by stones".

The forest covers an area of about 60 hectares and is a naturalistic area of community importance. An evergreen forest where you can find holm oaks, Aleppo pine and the rare Valonia oak while the undergrowth has all the characteristics of the Mediterranean scrub.

Inside the forest there are wetlands fed by an aquifer and many wild animals including fallow deer, foxes, porcupines and gray herons.
The forest is now private property and belongs to Franco Carrisi.

In Cellino San Marco, inside the Tenute Albano Carrisi, right in the centre of the village, an evocative church was built that combines ancient and modern art.

The façade is linear and clean in plaster with carved stone inlays and an anti-portico at the centre and a small bell tower on the roof.

The interior has a fan pattern, with a rustic local stone floor and a roof covered with stone beams.

A cross-shaped opening through which a ray of light penetrates marks the altar, while niches with saints are found along the perimeter.

Masseria Mea Chapel

Masseria Mea is a small chapel on the banks of a pond and on the edge of a vineyard.

It is built of local stone and has a small round bell tower resting on the roof.

The chapel is dedicated to Sant’Antonio and San Giovanni.

Masseria Mea Church

On one end of the long façade of the farm there is a small church, one of the oldest in Cellino San Marco.

Its façade is very simple with a double covering profile that opens in the centre to accommodate a cross and ends at the sides with two pinnacles.

The interior has a covering with a cross vault coloured blue.

Above the altar there is a fresco depicting Saint Mark with the lion.

The small chapel of Calvary or of the Resurrection was built in 1962 on the same site as a previous one in Cellino San Marco.

The chapel has 3 large ceramic panels with sculptures by P. Mangia and P. Garrisi from 1968 and a concrete roof.

The left panel shows scenes from the Bible and the Gospel, the central one depicts the crucifixion and the right one shows the resurrection.

The three panels form a scenic backdrop and in the centre is a shrine with a sculpture of the dead Christ.

The whole area is enclosed by a fence that also includes a small green space with a small garden.