Monopoli Capitolo

2025: the boating regulation for the Monopoli maritime district, which runs the coast between Polignano a Mare and Monopoli and so covers Capitolo, sets out what kiting here is allowed to look like. You may ride in daylight only, from an hour after sunrise to an hour before sunset, further than 200 m from the coast and inside one nautical mile of it. During the bathing season, launching and landing must happen inside an authorised corridor: 30 m wide at the waterline, widening symmetrically to 80 m at 100 m out and holding that width to 200 m, edged by orange buoys no more than 20 m apart with white flags and a sign at the sea entrance reading RISERVATO AL TRANSITO KITESURF - VIETATA OGNI ALTRA ATTIVITA. Inside the corridor you go out and come back by body-drag as far as 100 m from the waterline, one kite at a time in that first stretch, priority to whoever is coming in. Minimum age is 16, a lifejacket must be worn the whole time, and you must carry something that cuts lines plus a working quick release. Lines get connected only at launch and disconnected on landing, and a kite left on the beach must have one side disconnected and the lines wound on the bar. Kiting is banned inside ports and near their entrances, on port approach routes and in anchorages, in ship arrival and departure zones, within 100 m of navigation marks, dive floats, fishing gear or anything fixed to the seabed, at river and canal mouths, and within 200 m of merchant vessels or 300 m of military ones. No Capitolo-specific corridor authorisation is published, so which stretch of this beach is legally a launch corridor is still unknown.