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...

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...

By Frank Bruni We were bound for a farmhouse, and I had my doubts. Like many seasoned travelers, I’d been burned by the promise of rustic lodging with multi-star amenities, a happy-sounding combination that often meant a working telephone in a stone chamber otherwise untouched by progress and...