Salento and Porto Selvaggio within the Italian’s Most Searched Areas on Google Zeitgeist 2012

The Zeitgeist is the spirit of the age or spirit of the time, as described on Wikipedia, it is the intellectual fashion or dominant school of thought which typifies and influences the culture of a period.

Google every year tries to reveal the Zeitgeist of the world from its most searched topics.

The site’s description briefly says: “2012 was a year of big moments, from global games to historical elections and everything in between. With this site, we’ve analyzed over one trillion queries to showcase what the world searched for. Our year-end Zeitgeist is just a small sampling of the queries and search trends that we found interesting this year. Go beyond what we’ve shared here by using these tools to discover more about global and regional search terms over time.^[…] We filtered out spam and repeat queries to build lists that best reflect the spirit of 2012.”

The Google Zeitgeist 2012 website shows the world’s most searched topics split into overall searches, people, concerts, events, movies, books and many more categories. Users can also split up the statistics by country, and depending on the category, see results as “trending” searches or “most searched”. “Trending” is defined as search queries with the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011. “Most searched” ranks items by the largest volume of searches.

Browsing Google Zeitgeist 2012 by country and choosing Italy there are 10 “Trending” (Searches, People, Concerts, Exhibitions, Films, Books, Tickets for football matches, How to, What does it mean?, Recipes) and 2 “Most Searched” topics (Areas in Google Maps, Local Places in Google Maps) that sum up the Italians’ behavior on Google and therefore their choices and their tastes.

What’s really interesting for us is to read the “Most Searched” Areas in Google Map where they appear the 10 most popular areas of Italy during 2012 and find out the 5th and 7th place in the ranking respectively occupied by Salento and Porto Selvaggio. This makes us proud and encourages us to continue in our work, especially if we think that when we started in 2004 the words “Salento” and “Porto Selvaggio” were considered an error by search engines and users were taken to other places.

Click here to read the Italy’s Search Trends 2012

Click here to read the full Google Zeitgeist 2012

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Nardò, Puglia: How to get there

BY PLANE
RYANAIR flies directly from London Stansted to Brindisi BDS on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; to Bari BRI on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, once a day in the afternoon. The flight is due at 17:10 and arrives at 21:10 in Brindisi/Bari. The return flight is due at 21:25 and arrives in London Stansted at 23:20. For further information and reservation, please visit www.ryanair.com
BRITISH AIRWAYS flies in summertime directly from London Gatwick to Bari (BRI). You can also fly from London (Heathrow and Gatwick) to Milan (Malpensa or Linate) or to Rome (Fiumicino) at any time and continue your journey to Brindisi (BDS) with Italian airlines. ALITALIA flies from London Heathrow to Brindisi with stop over in Rome or Milan. Check for your flight on Opodo!

BY TRAIN
You can travel from UK by Eurostar through the Channel to Paris (about 3 hours) and there to Italy, precisely to Lecce, where you can easily get a local train, bus or a taxi to reach Nardò. The suggested route is Artesia (Paris, Lyon, Turin, Milan and Rome) which connects London-Paris to Italy. You may also decide to travel in the night with the Artesia France-Italy night service, directly to Rome (Termini) in 15 hours or during the day with the France-Italy Artesia day and being in Milan in less than 5 hours from Lyon.
We also suggest to visit www.trenitalia.com to reach the final destination, Lecce, which can be reached either from Rome or Milan. Travelling by train could be a tremendous opportunity to see numerous places in once.

BY CAR
Travelling by car could be a fantastic opportunity for those who want to be free to choose their own route, from the slower, panoramic roads to the faster motorway.
Obviously, we recommend to pay a lot of attention, double-check your route before you travel and to consider time for possible delays and breaks.
We suggest to visit www.viamichelin.com which uses exclusive mapping covering 40 European countries from road maps to detailed plans. Moreover, it is regularly updated and its database contains 7 millions kilometres of roads and streets. It also offers information on the weather, traffic, service stations, etc..

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Nardò: The 6th purest beach of Italy

In the national rank of the beautiest and purest beaches of Italy, published by Legambiente in the Blue Guide, Nardò and its villages on the Ionian sea are in the sixth place. The blue guide is the most important guide about the best holiday resort and beaches in Italy. Santa Maria al Bagno, Santa Caterina, Sant'Isidoro, Torre Inserraglio, Torre Uluzzo and Portoselvaggio for Legambiente, italian green association, are within the best places in Italy where to spend the holiday and enjoy the unspoilt nature. Particularly important the regional wildlife reserve "Portoselvaggio", famous natural park with 300 hectars of pinewood forest and 7 kilometres of high and unpolluted coasts. Portoselvaggio is one of the main green lungs in the province of Lecce.

Legambiente Blue Guide

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Nardò Tourist Services

This blog is the finalised version offering a wide variety of useful links and contact information on tourist facilities in Nardò and the surrounding area. The locality boasts holiday resorts, tour operators, real estate agencies, hotels, B&B’s, restaurants and pizzerias, bars and cafes, disco clubs, excursion points, family entertainment, culture, healthy eating outlets and wine producers with this magical baroque Puglian town as the centre for your visit.