Best Traditional Italian Apulia Puglia Lecce Baroque Alberobello Unesco 1996 Castel Del Monte Unesco 1996 Otranto And Puglia Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Italy travel | Europe destinations Best Traditional Italian Apulia Puglia: Lecce Baroque, Alberobello UNESCO 1996, Castel del Monte UNESCO 1996, Otranto and Puglia Deep Heritage Tour Destinations Apulia, called Puglia by Italians, forms the heel of the Italian boot, a long sun-bleached region stretching down the Adriatic with around 4 million residents and roughly 800 kilometres of coast washed by two seas. The land is flat, dry, and covered in olive groves; Puglia produces about 40 percent of all Italian olive oil, much of it pressed from gnarled trees that are several hundred years old. White-washed towns sit on limestone plateaus, fishing harbours bake in the heat, and Baroque churches rise out of small piazzas. Currency is the euro, the spoken languages are Italian and the older Apulian dialect, and the comfortable visiting window is April to October, with high summer hot and crowded along the coast. Lecce, Baroque capital of the south Lecce sits inland in...