the most beautiful resorts for active holidays

The initiative in four prestigious resorts in Puglia, Calabria, Basilicata and Elba Island

Pierfrancesco Catucci

July 12

On vacation with the Gazzetta dello Sport you can, but not just to read the latest transfer market news. The first of two weeks started last Saturday Official Sport Villagethe initiative that this year celebrates its tenth birthday, organized with Moving Events and TH Resorts in four Italian villages. Two weeks that will have mainly three sports as great protagonists: the 5-a-side footballthe Beach volley and the tennisthe three disciplines historically most practiced in tourist villages.

Resorts and awards

All at the TH Ortano on the Island of Elbato the TH Marina di Pisticci, in Basilicatato the TH Simeri, on the Ionian coast of Calabria and al TH Ostuni, in Puglia. All villages equipped to entertain guests in maximum comfort and with the utmost professionalism required by tournaments. Anyone who has booked or will book a week’s holiday in the four villages (the Gazzetta Sport Villages will close on 25 July), will be able to participate in the matches at no additional cost and try to win the official ball of the last Serie A championship, a branded tennis racket The Gazzetta dello Sport, as well as caps, t-shirts, mugs and many other prizes. All with the aim of putting sport at the center of a week’s vacation.

Active holidays

The four villages, all recently renovated, are a few steps from the sea and allow you to practice other sports in addition to the three for which tournaments are planned. The farthest from the beach, for example, is that of Pisticci, but only because you have to cross a wonderful Pine forest. Ostuni, on the other hand, is in fact a masseria (within a park of 120 hectares, a good part of which is dotted with centuries-old olive trees) transformed into a tourist village which, among other things, also hosts some padel courts. Ortano, on the Island of Elba, on the coast overlooking the mainland, is in a small canyon between the mountains and the sea, while Simeri is the closest structure to the beach. Because after a game of tennis, 5-a-side football or beach volleyball, a swim in the sea is more than deserved.



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