Published: May 17th, 2010 Location: Puglia | Topic: Food & Drink Words by Germaine Stafford Ten fun activities for food lovers in Puglia, one of Italy’s increasingly popular regions. 1. Find a Fornello Puglia has a tradition of butcher’s shops with ovens where you can choose the meat you...

Read about the New York Times’ Seth Kruger cycling adventures through Puglia on a Southern Visions bike. Seth stopped through our neck of the woods in June 2011 wrote about his encounters. Read the full article here http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/

Piety to Pyrotechnics at Easter Weekend By Sharon Bloomfield CISTERNINO — The air is crisp. The myriad greens of an Italian spring have burst forth. Today is Pasquetta, the day after Easter. Outside a church near Cisternino, in the Puglia region, the heel of Italy’s boot, a brass band is pulling...

The Other Side of Italy photos by Annie Schlechter Even Americans who have never traveled to Italy have a picture of it in their heads—romantic Rome, fashionable Milan, art-filled Florence, seductive Venice. But Puglia, on the Adriatic coast? That’s another...

Traditional Life in Puglia, Italy “On a journey though the southern region of Salento, T + L discovers traditional life in Puglia, Italy” By Michael Frank My wife, Jo Anne, and I had decided to go to Rome with our new baby. She was seven weeks new. Lucia: bringer of light. She brought it...