Tourist routes for Holiday in Apulia Italy Guide Gargano, Salento and Alberobello trullis

THE REGION: Apulia receives you with its sun, its sea, the scent of its fields, and the light of its cities. You should see it entirely, from the mysterious coves of the Gargano, through the sunny fields of the Tavoliere and the steppes of the western Murgia, pathing through the parfumed olive trees and the grassy vineyards, almonds trees and cherries, reaching Salento embraced from the Adriatic and the Ionian sea. Everywhere the signs of the various cultures and civilization stand out. Between the roughnesses of the Gargano (the cape rendered still today as the most famous in the world for the devotion to the blessed soul of Father Pio in Saint Giovanni Rotondo) receives us the basilica of Saint Michele Arcangelo, hidden between the inner routes of the mountain. Then we see the Immense Tavoliere of the Apulia, we aim along the Adriatic coast for Barletta with its castle and the places of the famous Disfida; not far after the beautiful cathedral of Trani, like a ship of stone just berthed to the wharf, it transmits to that splendid fusion of sea and earth, light and sky, religion and adventure, humanity and divinity to us that in Apulia are amalgamated and lived spontaneously. Before continuing to travel towards southeast you should aim for the Murgia, where high on a hill, tipsy the star of Federico II: the Mountain Castle. And then there is the wonderful cathedral Romanesque-apulien of Ruvo, Bitonto, Bitetto, and Bariums.
In Apulia there are the culture, the art, the civilization of eating well. The sea and the earth boast with tasty recipes that only in the atmosphere of Apulia can expresses in all their exquisiteness. The bread of the Gargano and the Murge, the hard grain paste, the vegetables cultivated at two steps from the sea, the grape and the cherrys, the extra virgin oil of olive, the almond cakes, and many more. Beans and chicories, orecchiette and turnips, orecchiette with fresh gravy of tomato and annealed cheese, cavatelli with vegetables, sea food, seaurchin, linguine to the mussels, fish to the grill, grill meat of horse, torcinelli of lamb, eggplants with parmesan, grilled peppers, zucchini to the poverella, mozzarella, burrate, caciocavalli cheese… and wine, much wine of extraordinary quality.
The apulia landscape is uniform and presents round shapes also in the higher areas. The nature wasn’t generous with Apulia. An earth struck by the winds, burnt from the sun, barren for the lack of rivers (except the Fortore and the Ofanto) of water sources and water stratums. Although the remarkable industrial development, Apulia conserve still a traditional agricultural print. On the earth, dry up for nine months per year, forests do not exist, but the twisted olive trees prosper in immense extended silver centenary yards. The gardens, often still today laboriously work (the nature to you of the ground render the use of agricultural machines problematic), produce tasty vegetables which are exported in other regions, especially in the north. Along the Adriatic there are white flowered almonds tree, of whose cultivation the Barium area have the supremacy. From the Tavoliere, the biggest plain of southern Italy, emerges the cape of the Gargàno, called “the spur” of Italy.
Holiday in Apulia Guide Gargano, Salento and Alberobello trullis.
From its elevated top, beyond 1.000 meters of height, you can see, on the Adriatic Sea, the charming Tremiti islands. In the Salentin peninsula, from the characteristic red earth, hard and strong, they mature the sweetest fig fruits and, where it succeeds to take root, there are cultivated low wine yards. Wines, like the Squinzano and the Trani, are very strong and are use in all Italy in order “to cut” other wines. Apuglia is the Italian region that today occupies the first place in the grape production. Also the Murge, barren relief of carsick type, eroded from the water of the rain, is laboriously cultivated from the inhabitants. And here you find the splendid coves of Castellana and the famous “trulli” of Alberobello. Around Foggia and in all the Tavoliere(plateau) the grain and oats are cultivated. Great industrial complexes where built to Taranto, to Brindisi, to Bariums, and give job to million of persons, even if recently they have endured the effects of the economic recession. Unfortunately, also in Apulia during the last few years it has taken to foot the organized rubberies, that creates problems to the development of the economy. The Barium port, opened towards the Balkans and the Middle East, and the trades and military one of Taranto they are in full efficiency. The Puglia, until a few years ago, was not a so known from the Italians, but its charming landscapes and the hospitality of it’s people attract more and more the tourists today.

TO SEE: Bariums and Saint Nicholas; Trani, Barletta; the Gargano with its beaches, its coves and its Park; the lakes of Lesina and of Varano; the Murgie, plateau from the carsick geologic type; the Salento; the beautiful Apulia coast.

Holiday in Apulia Italy Guide Gargano, Salento and Alberobello trullis.
OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-Castel of Monte
-Svevi Routes
-The coves of Castellana
-Ostuni, the white city
-The trulli
-Martina Franca and the valley of Itria
-Lecce and its Baroque
-Otranto, Gallipoli, Saint Maria di Leuca
-The arceologico museum of Taranto
-City of the Oil

TOURIST RESOURCES:

GARGANO AND THE FOGGIANO
TO SEE: Foggia and its monuments; the Tavoliere(plain); the Gargano, the Spur of Italy, with its rich and complex National Park; the Tremiti Islands; the Apennine between nature and history;

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-The mountain of Devout Father;
-The humid zone from Manfredonia until Daisy of Savoia, fundamental ecosystem for the migratory birds (rose fenicotter);
-theRoman Amphitheater of Lucera;
-The Terravecchia quarter to Montecorvino Stone

Locality
FOGGIA (FG)
Mattinata (FG)
Peschici (FG)
Rodi Garganico (FG)
Saint Menaio (FG)
Vieste (FG)

THE PROVINCE OF BARI
TO SEE: Bariums and its historical center; the Cathedral of Bitonto and Ruvo of Puglia; Castel of the Mountain, built from Federico II and symbol of the Puglia; Canosa; Trani with its beaches and its history; Bisceglie between Romanesque Churches and prehistoric dolmen; Alberobello and the trulli; the Murgia; Gravina, architectonic small jewellery built on a sour cliff spur

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-The Cove of Castellana, famous in all Europe for its vastness and ramification;
-The mozzarella chees of Gioia del colle;
-The bread of Altamura
-The Mercadante forest
-The carnival of Putignano with its typical mask of Farinella

Locality
Acquaviva delle Fonti (BA)
Alberobello (BA)
Barletta (BA)
Bisceglie (BA)
Casamassima (BA)
Conversano (BA)
Mola di Bari (BA)
Monopolies (BA)
Polignano to Sea (BA)
Ruvo of Puglia (BA)
Torre a Mare (BA)
Trani (BA)

PROVINCE OF TARANTO

TO SEE: Taranto and its sea; Manduria and the Pliniano Source; Grottaglie, chapital of the ceramics;

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-the Opera Festival of Itria valley to Martina Franca;
-The Gravina of San Marco to Massafra

Locality
Ginosa (TA)
Manduria (TA)
Martina Franca (TA)
Mottola (TA)
TARANTO (TA)

PROVINCE OF BRINDISI

TO SEE: Brindisi; the rock of Sanseverino to Ceglie Messapica; the oriental Murge; Ostuni;

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-Trulli and the Masserie
-The woman of Ostuni, of the Museum of pre classic civilizations
-Archaeological Area (“Muro Tenete”) of Mesagne

Locality
BRINDISI(BR)
Carovigno (BR)
Ceglie Messapica (BR)
Fasano (BR)
Marina di Carovigno (BR)
Mesagne (BR)
Ostuni (BR)
Pezze di Greco (BR)
Saint Vito of Normanni (BR)
Selva of Fasano (BR)
Speziale di Fasano (BR)

SALENTO AND LECCE

TO SEE: The castles of Carl V to Lecce and Corigliano of Otranto; The sacred places like the crypts to Leccese Wall, Tricase, Miggiano, Veglie, and many other; Lecce and the Baroque; The Cathedral of Otranto; the river basins of Ugento; Gallipoli and its village; The coast of Nardò; Saint Cesarea Terme

OF PARTICULAR INTEREST:
-the Salentin Greece that constitute the tons of Calimera, Castrignano of the Greeks, Corigliano of Otranto, Martano, Martignano, Melpignano, Soleto, Sternatia and Zollino;
-The fortified estates and the towers
-The sea of Castro

Locality
Alezio (LE)
Aradeo (LE)
Cavallino (LE)
Galatina (LE)
LECCE (LE)
Frigole (LE)
Leverano (LE)
Marina di Salve (LE)
Nardò (LE)
Otranto (LE)
Patù (LE)
Caesarean port (LE)
Racale (LE)
Ugento (LE)
Veglie (LE)

TYPICAL PLATES:
Orecchiette and Cavatelli: Typical Apulia paste
Pure of beans and field chicories
Brasciole: meat rolls filled with ham, parsley and sheep chees ,cooked in frying pan tasty and with tomatoes.
Fried to the mint:usual fried eggs with mint leaves.
Panzarotto: focacce of paste slices, fried and filled to your taste.
Alici “Arracanate”: Alici to the furnace with garlic, capers, mint, oregano and oil, covered from a veil of bread crumbs.
Taralli and tarallini: hard paste ring flavour with pepper or seeds of finches.
Fish and Sea Fod.


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