Mainly lying between the Adriatic and Ionian Sea, Puglia is clearly different from other bordering regions. The land is mostly flat, with no high ground aside from the Gargano headland. Its geographical position, land, Mediterranean climate and uncontaminated sea, together with the attractive cultural events and typical cuisine, make this region ideal for a break or a holiday.

For example, the valleys of the Daunia Mountains break down towards the tavoliere pugliese and the Adriatic Sea with villages gathered on its poor and gaunt clearings that leave room for the more modern and lively world of the plains. Here, there is a succession of wheat fields, straight roads and peasant villages with their typically white coloured houses. Onwards towards the Gargano, the mountains reappear and the villages are gathered on the high grounds. Called the “spur of Italy”, it has always attracted tourist who spend their summer holidays on its long beaches. The high grounds open up directly onto the sea and the coast, and alternate between rocky headlands, charming inlets surrounded by olive trees, caves, pine and citrus plantations and fishing villages built into the sea’s rocks. Inland, there is the Umbra Forest with more than ten thousand hectares of rich vegetation that have escaped destruction almost by miracle. In central Puglia, the landscape is dominated by large terraced orchards and olive groves on lower ground and stretches of grain for grazing on higher ground. The more lively urban centres can be found on the coast.

In the Murge dei Trulli, the strip of land between Martina Franca, Alberobello, Locorotondo and Selva di Fasano, all the appeal of the Italic civilisation is brought together. On a red soiled plateau there are rows of vines, live oak woods and carob woods divided by long dry walls. For those who come from chaotic and teeming cities there is the possibility of finding a long forgotten sense of tranquillity and silence in these places, and undertake unique experiences in contact with marvellous nature in a landscape made up of open space, sun, coasts and sea.