Puglia
Region

Puglia

The sun-baked heel of Italy: whitewashed villages, ancient olives, two seas.

Best time
May to June, September to October
Fly into
Bari (BRI) or Brindisi (BDS)
The region

Where Two Seas Meet

Puglia is the long, sunlit heel of Italy, between the Adriatic and the Ionian. Thousand-year-old olive groves stretch from one sea to the other, and the architecture is uniquely its own: conical trulli, fortified masserie, baroque Lecce stone.

Our masserie are working estates, walled and self-contained, with their own oil presses and infinity pools cut into the limestone. The pace here is unhurried; the cuisine, intensely seasonal and built on what the land gives that morning.

Places worth knowing

  • Alberobello

    A UNESCO village entirely built of trulli, fairy-tale conical-roofed stone houses.

  • Lecce

    The 'Florence of the South', an entire baroque city carved from honey-coloured stone.

  • Polignano a Mare

    A white town perched on a sheer Adriatic cliff, with a swimmable cove far below.

The houses

Houses in Puglia

The journal

Read about Puglia

  • Places · 6 minThe masserie of the Valle d’Itria

    Fortified farmhouses, built to keep the world out, now open their courtyards for the summer. What the walls were for, and what it is like to sleep behind them.

The guide

The Italy Travel Guide covers Puglia

Six regions: where to stay, what to eat and the right week to go.

The Italy Travel Guide
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