Most international visitors reach Puglia through one of two airports: Bari Karol Wojtyła Airport (BRI) or Brindisi Salento Airport (BDS). Choosing the right one can save several hours of ground travel over the course of a trip. The simple rule is that Bari is usually better for central and northern Puglia, while Brindisi is usually … Read more
Puglia has a Mediterranean climate, but the phrase “southern Italy weather” is too broad to plan a trip well. The region stretches for hundreds of kilometres from Gargano to the tip of Salento, with long Adriatic and Ionian coastlines, exposed promontories, inland plateaus and towns sitting at different elevations. That means a forecast for Bari … Read more
Puglia works in every season, but it does not offer the same trip in every month. The best time to visit Puglia depends on whether your priority is swimming, sightseeing, road-tripping, food, lower prices or simply seeing the region without the crowds that fill its most famous towns in midsummer. For most first-time visitors who … Read more
Travelling around Puglia without a car is entirely possible, but only if you build the trip around the parts of the region that public transport serves well. The mistake is to plan the same itinerary you would use with a rental car and simply replace every drive with a train or bus. Puglia is long, … Read more
Puglia rewards travellers who resist the temptation to treat it as a checklist of white villages and famous beaches. The region is long, geographically varied and surprisingly diverse: Romanesque cathedrals face the Adriatic in the north, trulli and olive-covered countryside fill the Valle d’Itria, Baroque streets dominate Lecce, while the Salento peninsula alternates between rocky … Read more
Understanding Puglia’s geography makes planning a trip dramatically easier. On a map the region looks narrow, but it is long enough that a holiday can become inefficient if you treat Bari, Gargano and southern Salento as neighbouring stops. Puglia — Apulia in English — forms the heel of the Italian peninsula. It runs along the … Read more
There are places in Puglia that impress you with famous monuments, and others that win you over simply by making you want to slow down. Locorotondo belongs firmly to the second group. Perched above the Valle d’Itria, surrounded by vineyards, olive groves and scattered trulli, Locorotondo is a compact maze of whitewashed houses, flower-filled balconies, … Read more
There are towns in Puglia that impress you with a famous monument, and others that win you over with their atmosphere. Ostuni belongs firmly to the second group. From a distance, its historic centre looks like a bright white crown rising above a landscape of olive groves, with the blue Adriatic visible on the horizon. … Read more
Whitewashed walls, narrow lanes and hundreds of grey stone cones rising above the rooftops: Alberobello is one of the most distinctive places in Puglia. Even if you have seen photographs of the town before arriving, walking through its historic trulli districts is a completely different experience. Located in the beautiful Valle d’Itria, Alberobello is famous … Read more
Few places capture the beauty of coastal Puglia quite like Polignano a Mare. White houses rise above dramatic limestone cliffs, narrow streets suddenly open onto panoramic terraces overlooking the Adriatic, and at the bottom of a rocky gorge lies Lama Monachile, one of the most photographed beaches in southern Italy. But Polignano a Mare is … Read more