Puglia is Italy’s largest olive oil producing region
Puglia holidays provide the perfect opportunity to explore the southern area or ‘heel’ of Italy. This beautiful part of the country has been slightly ignored by British tourists in favour of more northern resorts, so now is an excellent time to visit this unspoilt, traditional part of the world.
Puglia is a major producer of olive oil and fine wine, with olive groves and vineyards covering vast parts of the sun baked countryside. Puglia’s history is colourful and fascinating with influences brought over with Norman, Saracen, Greek and Spanish invasions and there are many historic monuments left to symbolize these events.
Cathedrals and Castles show off the variety of architectural interests, while villages interpret the Greek and Spanish trends in their own characteristic ways. No holidays in Puglia would be complete without a visit to a traditional trulli, these stone igloo shaped houses with conical roofs were built without mortar so they could easily be dismantled to fool the tax man, some are still lived in today, others have been transformed into quirky shops and restaurants, with a trip to Alberobello shows a very pretty street of terraced trulli.