we are spending one week in puglia. what is the most detailed guide book for the area? lonely planet italy seems good. from what i can tell on amazon, lonely planet's Southern Italy book does not have ...

I'm having real trouble finding a decent travel guide for Puglia (in English!). I'm going there a lot at the moment (buying a villa there), but I really want to get the most out of the region. There ...

There’s a French-Italian film by Marco Ferreri called La Grand Bouffe about a group of friends that decide to eat themselves to death. While the point of the movie is to satire consumerism, you ...

The most important decision you’ll make each day. Puglia is culinarily self-sustainable, and known for using exclusively local products; it’s common that a restaurant or hotel even makes their own ...

This sun-drenched southern region offers the best of Italy with fewer crowds—at least in the off-season. At a hotel like Le Alcove in Alberobello, you can sleep in a trullo, a cozy, cocoon-like ...

Puglia, the stretch of Italy that fills the heel of the boot-shaped country, offers some of Europe’s most picturesque beaches along its breathtaking coastline on the Adriatic Sea. Meanwhile, its ...

White city … Ostuni, Puglia. Photograph: Alamy Beyond Puglia’s crowded hotspots, there are nature reserves, dramatic caves, medieval quarters and several hundred ...

At a hotel like Le Alcove in Alberobello, you can sleep in a trullo, a cozy, cocoon-like conical dwelling. Sample orecchiette, Puglia’s signature ear-shaped pasta, at a traditional eatery like Osteria ...

Roll out of Bari or Brindisi airport on to the autostrada and you could be forgiven for feeling a little disappointed by the landscape that lies before you – flat, parched and blighted by poor civic ...