1/10Who this town suits
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The honest read
- Well connected by rail — a station about 2.7km away.
- An airport with scheduled flights is within reach — Brindisi Airport (BDS), about 78.9km away.
- The population is growing — up 0.87% in the latest year.
- The coast is close — about 5.1km to the nearest beach.
- An older, settled community — median age about 54, higher than most Italian comuni.
- No hospital shows up within reach in our mapping — worth checking where the nearest one actually is before committing.
Written from the data on this page — this town's own ISTAT and OpenStreetMap figures, not editorial impressions.
People
Where the population is heading
Arrivals and departures over the year, from the ISTAT demographic balance. International migration counts moves across Italy’s border; internal migration counts moves to and from other Italian comuni.
Long-range projections are published by ISTAT only for comuni over ~5,000 residents.
Age structure
Property prices
Agenzia delle Entrate - OMI · 2025 H2 · broad indicative €/m² ranges by OMI zone, not a valuation or a listing price. Always check the specific address and current listings for any property.
Air travel
Nearest airport with scheduled passenger service (great-circle distance). Verified against OurAirports, Assaeroporti and Wikipedia — cargo-only and general-aviation fields are excluded. Check the airport site for current routes and timetables.
Leisure & facilities
Mapped from OpenStreetMap; absence here means “not mapped,” which isn’t always the same as “not there.”
Daily life & distances (within 1 km / 3 km / 5 km)
- 1.Banca SELLA (in Spongano)~10 min driving (4.5 km by road)
- 2.Banca Unicredit (in Marittima)~10 min driving (6.1 km by road)
- 3.Banca Ardini Galati (in Andrano)~14 min driving (8.7 km by road)
- 1.Alfa Analisi (in Poggiardo)~8 min driving (4.8 km by road)
- 2.Dott. Martella Luce (in Andrano)~15 min driving (8.9 km by road)
- 3.Ambulatorio di Assistenza Sanitaria Turistica (in Marina di Andrano)~18 min driving (10.5 km by road)
- 1.ASL (in Andrano)~14 min driving (8.6 km by road)
- 2.ProDia (in Muro Leccese)~17 min driving (12.5 km by road)
- 1.Studio dentistico Carluccio (in Vignacastrisi)~8 min driving (3.6 km by road)
- 2.Dentist (in Spongano)~9 min driving (4.1 km by road)
- 3.Studio dentistico Fabio Bacile di Castiglione (in Spongano)~10 min driving (4.5 km by road)
- Hospital (in Poggiardo)~8 min driving (4.7 km by road)
- Cala dell'Acquaviva (in Marina di Marittima)~13 min driving (7.6 km by road)
Counts show what’s mapped in OpenStreetMap within each ring. Where little is close, the nearest few are listed with an estimated drive time (a guide, not a measured route; typically ~1.5× the straight-line distance at rural speeds). Daily services are searched to 15 km; hospital and beach to 100 km.
Foreign community
Foreign community — estimated religious background
Estimated from the foreignresidents’ country of citizenship, not a religion census — a guide to the likely background of the foreign community, not a measured figure.
Civic vitality
Read automatically from the comune’s own website — soft signals of how active the local administration is, not a verdict. Some towns use a shared regional portal, so a quiet site doesn’t always mean a quiet town. See the methodology.
Schools & education
School counts from the MIUR Anagrafe scuole (presence by level, not a ranking). Universities and conservatories/academies from the MIUR institution lists; nearby university presence from OpenStreetMap. A student presence often means more rentals and services.
What’s around Ortelle
Nearby features by direction and distance — what we could locate, nothing guessed.
Sources: ISTAT↗ · OpenStreetMap↗ · Comune site↗ · Photo↗ · Updated October 9, 2026 · How we know this →