When you ask Italians about Puglia, they’ll mention these top three reasons to visit Puglia.
Field after field of olive trees fill Puglia’s sun-soaked land. Silvery leaves and gnarled branches brim with purple and green olives. In the fall, farmers pick the olives and press them into green oil. Puglia alone accounts for 40% of Italy’s olive oil production! Visitors might tour a family-run farm, enjoying a tasting in the shade of an olive tree.
Foodies will fall in love with Puglia. In Puglia, pasta doesn’t come from a box. Each day, local cooks turn flour and water into fresh pasta. Famous throughout Italy is Puglia’s signature pasta—orecchiette. From caciocavallo to fresh burrata, Puglia also produces some of Italy’s finest cheese. Travelers need to try Puglia’s excellent bread too — kneaded, proofed and wood-fired the old-fashioned way. Travelers to Puglia can make orecchiette by hand with a local grandma or enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour of a cheese farm.
When you enter the Val d’Itria, you’ll immediately notice the trulli dotting the horizon. Trulli are the traditional stone homes of this region – topped in a cone-shaped roof. In the countryside, trulli were built in groups of up to a dozen. The town of Alberobello is famous throughout Italy for the quantity of trulli found there. Nowhere else in Italy will you find these buildings – originally built this way so they could be quickly taken down to avoid heavy property taxes. A visit to Puglia is incomplete without seeing these iconic (and beautiful) homes!)
Puglia is a land of many sights and many flavors. Swim in its crstyal-clear seas or lunch under the branches of an olive orchard. Taste bread fresh from a wood-fired oven or stroll streets lined with stone trulli.
All along, you’ll feel like you’re walking through a living postcard. To plan your own adventure in Puglia, contact us for a free consultation.
Topics: Italy