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Monuments and places of interest
Historic center: example of "spontaneous architecture", where there are historic buildings (Palazzo del Governatore, Palazzo Vescovile, Palazzo Amati, Palazzo Lagravinese, Palazzo Devitofranceschi, Torre Capece);
Torre di Porta Grande or Norman-Swabian: from the Middle Ages, 17 meters high, this tower was the main entrance to the city. Above, on the top, there is a small statue of San Nicola di Bari. Over the centuries it has undergone various readjustments, the last of which in 1995;
Mother Church of San Nicola: built in the fourteenth century on an ancient early Christian church of the Basilian monks, it has two works in stone from the sixteenth century, of considerable value, signed by the sculptor "Stephanus Abulie Poteniani" (Stefano da Putignano ): a Madonna with Child, known as the "Madonna del Cardellino" and a small tabernacle. Inside the church there is an Inzoli pipe organ from 1908, which was originally placed in the counter-façade on a choir loft. It was dismantled on the occasion of the restoration works that brought the Church back to its original Romanesque whiteness. In 1956 Angelo Consoli da Locorotondo carried out a modification and reassembly work in the chapel that opens into the transept, on the right aisle. The organ was restored in 2017 by Giovanni Rega and inaugurated on 6 December of the same year [5];
Church of Santa Lucia of the seventeenth century, located shortly after the entrance from Porta Piccola;
Sanctuary of the Madonna d'Ibernia (Madonna de Bernis): 3 km from the town, this sanctuary is linked to a legend; it would have been the Virgin, in fact, with an apparition, to indicate the exact place where the sanctuary dedicated to her would have risen. The surrounding land is rich in pottery and artifacts dating back to Roman and medieval times. A Byzantine capital and some tombs were also found and this suggests that the sanctuary stands on the ruins of an inhabited center, revolving around an early Christian church;
Church of Santa Maria di Costantinopoli or Sant'Anna XVIII century outside the city towards Martina Franca, near the old cemetery;
Church of San Cataldo of the eighteenth century, located in Corso Umberto outside the walls of the historic center;
Church of Christ, better known as the "New Church", as it was the last church built (19th century);
Masserie: in the countryside of Cisternino there are several rural houses that represent the typical "Apulian farm in the field", including Masseria Montereale, Villa Cenci, Masseria Devitofranceschi, Masseria Costa and Masseria Montanaro.
Natural areas
Among the environmental assets to highlight is the whole landscape. Tourism in Cisternino has developed in the last decade thanks to the only asset of this small town: nature, the landscape, the trulli and the spontaneous architecture of the historic center.
The Monti Comunali wood; in the municipal area there are about 400 hectares of woods of which 244.18.33 are owned by the municipality, located from 250 to 350 m a.s.l. The municipal woods are the most consistent plant formation in the province. Currently, improvement works are underway with the replacement of the Aleppo pine and cypress, with native broad-leaved trees (fragno, rovella, ileccio etc.) which harmonize better with the present essences, such as carob, hackberry, hornbeam, ash, field maple , etc. The reforested municipal areas are about 42 hectares.