APULICA / WHERE
A journey can begin with a loaf of bread, a museum, a winery or a landscape. These guides help you choose what to explore and how places connect, starting with Puglia and the territories of our incoming project.
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Three national parks, from the Majella to the Gran Sasso, stone villages such as Santo Stefano di Sessanio and the trabocchi coast on the Adriatic. L'Aquila, Sulmona and a cuisine of mountain and sea.
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Mountains, badlands and two stretches of sea, the Ionian and the Tyrrhenian at Maratea. The Sassi of Matera, the villages of the Lucanian Dolomites, the Pollino and the Vulture of Aglianico wine.
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Nearly eight hundred kilometres of coast between the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian and, inland, the Pollino, the Sila and the Aspromonte. Hilltop villages, the Magna Graecia of the museums and chilli on the table.
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The Gulf of Naples, the islands and the Amalfi Coast, then the wine country of Irpinia and the Cilento between park and sea. Pompeii, Paestum and a cuisine known all over the world.
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A small, quiet region between the Apennines and the Adriatic. The drove roads of the transhumance, the Italic sanctuary of Pietrabbondante, Saepinum, Agnone and the coast of Termoli.
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Two seas and more than eight hundred kilometres of coast, an interior of olive groves, trulli and masserie. Romanesque cathedrals, the Baroque of Lecce, white villages and a cuisine built on oil and wheat.
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The historic park of the central Apennines: valley villages, wildlife museums and the forests of the Marsican bear.
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A stone village in the Abruzzo National Park, with the region’s largest natural lake and a celebrated women’s costume.
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A historic centre in the Peligna basin, surrounded by the Majella park and the starting point of the Way of Celestine.
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A stone village on the L’Aquila side of the Gran Sasso, with a Slow Food Presidium lentil and the transhumance fortress nearby.
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A capital between the Gran Sasso and the Monti della Laga, with the UNESCO-listed Celestinian Forgiveness and reconstruction still under way.
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The Chieti coastline between Ortona and Vasto, with some thirty wooden trabocchi and the hermitage where D’Annunzio stayed.
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The Sassi, Murgia and local bread: explore a city through architecture, nature and everyday life.
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Monticchio lakes, Rionero and wine culture: explore Vulture beyond a single tasting.
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Medieval heritage, archaeology and marroncino chestnuts: Melfi as a cultural chapter of Vulture.
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Venusia, the unfinished church and the castle: connect history and food in Vulture-Melfese.
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The town, Peperone di Senise IGP and the Sinni valley: understand a place through an ingredient.
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An abandoned town among clay hills: landscape and memory beyond the photograph.
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The Barons’ Conspiracy, Renaissance painting and the Bradano landscape.
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Viggiano: harp, devotion and Val d’Agri.
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Accettura: town and tree rituals.
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Metaponto: Magna Graecia on the plain.
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Palazzo San Gervasio: a collection in a small town.
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Lavello: Vulture and agricultural memory.
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Scanzano Jonico: farmland and coast.
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Potenza: archaeology in the regional capital.
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Castelmezzano: a town among the rocks.
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Pietrapertosa: the Arabata quarter.
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Rotonda: town and Pollino heritage.
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Terranova di Pollino: the Lucanian side.
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Viggianello: above the Mercure valley.
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Oliveto Lucano: wood, stone and Monte Croccia.
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Grumentum: reading a Roman town.
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A town to read through literature and landscape.
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Neighbourhoods, religious memory and cinema in the Noce Valley.
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San Biagio, heritage and the landscape opening Coast to Coast.
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An inland stop near Maratea, combining architecture and rural memory.
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A mountain landscape shared by Calabria and Basilicata, explored through walks, villages and a considered pace.
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A Pollino village whose architecture and Italo-Albanian culture give the visit a distinct character.
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A historic hill town to explore on foot and connect with the Pollino landscape.
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A Northern Calabria village where artistic heritage and bread culture can share a journey.
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Historic heritage, liquorice and coast: a connection to develop between inland Calabria and the Ionian Sea.
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Sila National Park: a plateau of forests, lakes and pastures between Cosenza, Catanzaro and Crotone, and a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
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The clifftop town, the Tropea onion and the Capo Vaticano headland along the Costa degli Dei, on Calabria’s Tyrrhenian coast.
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The town of the Homeric myth, the seafaring quarter of Chianalea and the stretch of Costa Viola facing the Strait of Messina.
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An Irpinia village from which to develop a journey around wine, heritage and food, with encounters still to be selected.
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The city as an introduction to the territory: its old centre, Museo Irpino and a possible route towards wine country.
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Chestnuts, heritage and nature as threads of a rural journey, with experiences chosen for the season.
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A thread connecting village, mountains and truffles: a journey designed around the season rather than a single festival.
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A small village approached through archaeology and the history of water, with a visit to develop without forcing the route.
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The Cilento, Vallo di Diano and Alburni National Park: coastline, karst mountains, Paestum, Velia and the Padula Charterhouse.
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The UNESCO cultural landscape between Positano and Vietri sul Mare: citrus terraces, footpaths, inland valleys and the history of a maritime republic.
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A regional park of beech woods, springs and hill villages, with Giffoni Valle Piana and its film festival for young people.
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An old town on a rocky spur over the sea, the Swabian castle, the cathedral of San Basso and the trabucchi of the Adriatic coast.
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The Altilia-Saepinum archaeological area, the medieval village of Sepino and Samnite Terravecchia above the Tammaro valley.
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The Italic sanctuary on the slopes of Monte Saraceno: the assembly cavea, the temples and the Samnites’ Domus publica.
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The Pontifical Marinelli Foundry and its museum, copper and wrought-iron workshops, and the December ’Ndocciata.
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A village of the Molise Apennines among pastures and beech woods, with a tradition of scissors and knives and the arrival of transhumance from Puglia.
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Bread culture, the old town and the Murgia landscape as the starting point for a journey.
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Rock-cut neighbourhoods, pastoral history and the relationship between town and landscape.
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The old town, harbour and cooking shaped by farming and fishing traditions.
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Cathedral, castle and Jewish heritage for a coastal ending with cultural depth.
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Karst, caves and the town within a journey connected to the Itria Valley.
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Stone, pasture and farming to explore the landscape beyond the towns.
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Rural architecture, towns and food as parts of the same journey.
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Courtyards, megalithic heritage and Cistercian culture in Grecìa Salentina.
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Rainwater wells, courtyard houses and a partly underground olive mill: water and work in a small Grecìa Salentina town.
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Griko culture, rural memory and a connection with Athens in inland Salento.
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Grinding stones and presses beneath the town: the Granafei mill and historic centre tell the story of olive oil.
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Augustinian heritage and musical culture: Melpignano beyond the night of its major concert.
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Palazzo Bacile, religious heritage and olive-oil production history in southern Salento.
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Grottaglie: ceramics and rock.
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Crispiano: farm estates and the Ionian countryside.
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Gioia del Colle: castle and rural memory.
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Putignano: papier-mâché and town memory.
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Brindisi: reading the city from its harbour.
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Taranto: two seas and archaeology.
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The old town as a first encounter with Puglia.
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Romanesque architecture and karst landscape beyond the coast.
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From the La Chianca dolmen to the Romanesque town and harbour.
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A town worth exploring beyond its famous castle.
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Frederick’s architecture within the Murgia landscape.
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Trulli through their shape, space and everyday use.
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Cummerse roofs as a way to distinguish the Itria Valley’s towns.
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The town and a food craft connected to its landscape.
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Fornello pronto, bombette and a walk through the town.
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Houses, steps and agricultural landscape within one visit.
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An Adriatic conclusion connected to the rural landscape.
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Old town, viewpoints and a coffee as a travel pause.
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Baroque architecture, papier-mâché and Salento food: a city of telling details.
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The cathedral, Adriatic landscape and time to explore the historic centre.
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The bridge, churches and Ionian townscape beyond a beach holiday.
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The sanctuary, seafront architecture and the outline of the coast.
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Sea stacks, pine woodland and a contrast with Melendugno’s inland villages.
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The historic centre and Rudolph Valentino’s story in inland Puglia.
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Gargano: villages, woodland and coast.
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Vieste: old lanes and fishing structures.
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San Giovanni Rotondo: pilgrimage and town.
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Monte Sant’Angelo: the cave and Junno quarter.
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Tremiti: San Nicola and the island landscape.
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Foresta Umbra: Gargano beneath the beech trees.
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Peschici: the town above the cliff.
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Santeramo in Colle: details of the inhabited Murgia.
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