What You’ll Love about Your Week in Puglia
For those of us at Oldways, visiting Puglia is to feel at home. We hope you’ll feel the same way.
Puglia produces more olive oil, more table olives and more table grapes than any other region in Italy. The landscape is dotted with olive trees and grapevines, and many of the groves and wineries are surrounded by farmhouses now turned into Masserie. We’ll be visiting producers and tasting all of it – olive oil, wine and many other iconic products and dishes – Puglia is home to burrata, orecchiette (ear-shaped pasta), fave e cicoria, panzerotti and the bread of Altamura (on the left). We’re lucky to have Chef Luke Fetbroth putting it all together with a cooking class at Borgo Egnazia, and to be dining at masserie, and restaurants that take the best of Pugliese ingredients and make them even better.
We’ll walk in the steps of history, we’ll visit the octagonal 13th century Norman castle, Castel del Monte, a UNESCO Heritage site; explore Lecce’s Baroque beauty, and walk among the amazing conical houses around Alberobello and Locorotondo called Trulli. We’ll visit the UNESCO World Heritage city of Matera (actually in the next-door region of Basilicata) that features stone caves called Sassi.
If that’s not enough, we’ll be staying all week long at the spectacular Borgo Egnazia, the site of the 2024 G7 Summit. It’s a very special place, and we are really lucky to be able to offer a week-long stay at what Conde Nast Traveler says, “The dreamily beautiful Borgo Egnazia is one of the loveliest places to stay in all of Italy.”