Trani Bed and Breakfast near the Port

By | October 27, 2012

Trani Bed and Breakfast very close to the Port

Travel and Living is a bed and breakfast accommodation Very close to the port, and near the cathedral, the b & b located in Trani is about 320 meters from the port. and from the Cathedral and the castle only 500 mt. B&B Trani Treavel and Living.

The port of Trani is among the most beautiful of the entire Adriatic coast, pleasant to see, suitable for walks, and equipped for pleasure tourism (in fact it is an obligatory stop for offshore sailing events and for national and international offshore competitions. -shore).

Trani is a natural harbor (41 ° 16 ′, 98 N - 16 ° 25 ′, 37 E) protected to the east by the S. Antonio pier and to the west by the S. Nicola pier: its banks are completely quays. Inside the port there are some floating docks managed by the Municipality and the Italian Naval League.There are lighthouses and lights to facilitate entry in the evening: a lighthouse with white flashes placed at the end of the S.Antonio pier, a fixed light red placed at the end of the same pier of S.Antonio, and a fixed green light placed on the head of the arm of San Nicola.
The seabed of the port is sand. The depths on the quay touch a depth from 1.50 to 4 m. It has about 630 berths for a maximum length of 20 m.
The port facilities include the Italian Naval League and the municipal dock. There is also a shipyard for repairs of boats, a fuel depot with refueling pump, various shops for the sale of nautical equipment and spare parts.

The surface of the port occupied on land is 24,880 square meters. The port consists of an inlet defended by two piers: the Molo S. Lucia and the Molo Sant’Antonio, the first is quayed and equipped with columns and mooring rings. The arm of San Nicola, to the north, mitigates the silting to which the port is subject, which can reach a value of up to 50 cm per year.

All the inner shores of the port are quays: the quay of the Molo Santa Lucia, 48 m long and with an area of ​​about 1,400 square meters, is used for the docking of small cargo ships (max 500 t.s.l.) and does not provide for warehouses the adjacent section of the Santa Teresa quay, 215 m long, is used for the mooring of fishing boats; the Seminario quay and part of the La Conca quay, 109 m long, are reserved for the fishing flotilla; the quays of Piazza Quercia and Piazza Tiepolo, 450 m long, are reserved for pleasure boats. Here floating docks are arranged, for a total of 618 m, which allow mooring to boats up to mt. 25 f.t., for a total of 600 boats. A part of these piers is reserved for members of the local Section of the ITALIAN NAVAL LEGA; the others, directly managed by the Municipal Administration (Darsena Comunale), are freely accessible. Finally, on the Sant’Antonio pier, 60 m from the end, as you enter, on the left, there is the lighthouse: white flashes for 5 sec .; 20 m from the fixed red light end; on the arm of San Nicola, on the head, north side when entering: steady green light. Boats entering and exiting must keep 40m from the green light.

The port area is full of pizzerias, pubs, characteristic restaurants, which attract Italian and foreign tourists and young people from the Limistrian cities.
The port of Trani is a spectacular setting for city events: for example in the summer, for the celebrations in honor of San Nicola Pellegrino, patron saint of the city, the port becomes a place of transit for religious processions, admire the fireworks. On the steps of via Statuti Marittimi there is a bronze statue of San Nicola, commissioned by Cav. Vitantonio De Simone and donated to the city of Trani as a symbol of faith and devotion to the patron saint.