APULICA / DESTINATION GUIDES
A journey can begin with a loaf of bread, a museum, a winery or a landscape. These guides help you choose what to explore and how places connect, starting with Puglia and the territories of our incoming project.
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Basilicata brings a character of its own to Apulica. Matera opens the story without exhausting it: Vulture, Melfi, Venosa and Senise offer different perspectives on heritage, landscape and food.
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Northern Calabria changes perspective between mountains, small towns and coast. The journey begins inland: places to explore on foot, cultures to understand and flavours connected with their landscape. The sea can provide a concluding pause without taking over the story.
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In inland Campania, a journey can follow one theme at a time: wine, town history, seasonal food or mountain landscapes. Irpinia invites visitors to stop and understand the context of what they taste, devoting each day to a small number of places.
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Puglia is Apulica’s starting point. Inland landscapes, local knowledge and food are central to the journey; a day or two on the coast can complete it.
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The Sassi, Murgia and local bread: explore a city through architecture, nature and everyday life.
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Monticchio lakes, Rionero and wine culture: explore Vulture beyond a single tasting.
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Medieval heritage, archaeology and marroncino chestnuts: Melfi as a cultural chapter of Vulture.
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Venusia, the unfinished church and the castle: connect history and food in Vulture-Melfese.
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The town, Peperone di Senise IGP and the Sinni valley: understand a place through an ingredient.
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An abandoned town among clay hills: landscape and memory beyond the photograph.
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The Barons’ Conspiracy, Renaissance painting and the Bradano landscape.
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Viggiano: harp, devotion and Val d’Agri.
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Accettura: town and tree rituals.
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Metaponto: Magna Graecia on the plain.
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Palazzo San Gervasio: a collection in a small town.
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Lavello: Vulture and agricultural memory.
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Scanzano Jonico: farmland and coast.
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Potenza: archaeology in the regional capital.
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Castelmezzano: a town among the rocks.
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Pietrapertosa: the Arabata quarter.
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Rotonda: town and Pollino heritage.
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Terranova di Pollino: the Lucanian side.
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Viggianello: above the Mercure valley.
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Oliveto Lucano: wood, stone and Monte Croccia.
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Grumentum: reading a Roman town.
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A town to read through literature and landscape.
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Neighbourhoods, religious memory and cinema in the Noce Valley.
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San Biagio, heritage and the landscape opening Coast to Coast.
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An inland stop near Maratea, combining architecture and rural memory.
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A mountain landscape shared by Calabria and Basilicata, explored through walks, villages and a considered pace.
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A Pollino village whose architecture and Italo-Albanian culture give the visit a distinct character.
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A historic hill town to explore on foot and connect with the Pollino landscape.
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A Northern Calabria village where artistic heritage and bread culture can share a journey.
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Historic heritage, liquorice and coast: a connection to develop between inland Calabria and the Ionian Sea.
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An Irpinia village from which to develop a journey around wine, heritage and food, with encounters still to be selected.
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The city as an introduction to the territory: its old centre, Museo Irpino and a possible route towards wine country.
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Chestnuts, heritage and nature as threads of a rural journey, with experiences chosen for the season.
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A thread connecting village, mountains and truffles: a journey designed around the season rather than a single festival.
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A small village approached through archaeology and the history of water, with a visit to develop without forcing the route.
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Bread culture, the old town and the Murgia landscape as the starting point for a journey.
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Rock-cut neighbourhoods, pastoral history and the relationship between town and landscape.
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The old town, harbour and cooking shaped by farming and fishing traditions.
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Cathedral, castle and Jewish heritage for a coastal ending with cultural depth.
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Karst, caves and the town within a journey connected to the Itria Valley.
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Stone, pasture and farming to explore the landscape beyond the towns.
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Rural architecture, towns and food as parts of the same journey.
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Courtyards, megalithic heritage and Cistercian culture in Grecìa Salentina.
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Rainwater wells, courtyard houses and a partly underground olive mill: water and work in a small Grecìa Salentina town.
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Griko culture, rural memory and a connection with Athens in inland Salento.
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Grinding stones and presses beneath the town: the Granafei mill and historic centre tell the story of olive oil.
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Augustinian heritage and musical culture: Melpignano beyond the night of its major concert.
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Palazzo Bacile, religious heritage and olive-oil production history in southern Salento.
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Grottaglie: ceramics and rock.
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Crispiano: farm estates and the Ionian countryside.
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Gioia del Colle: castle and rural memory.
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Putignano: papier-mâché and town memory.
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Brindisi: reading the city from its harbour.
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Taranto: two seas and archaeology.
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The old town as a first encounter with Puglia.
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Romanesque architecture and karst landscape beyond the coast.
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From the La Chianca dolmen to the Romanesque town and harbour.
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A town worth exploring beyond its famous castle.
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Frederick’s architecture within the Murgia landscape.
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Trulli through their shape, space and everyday use.
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Cummerse roofs as a way to distinguish the Itria Valley’s towns.
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The town and a food craft connected to its landscape.
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Fornello pronto, bombette and a walk through the town.
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Houses, steps and agricultural landscape within one visit.
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An Adriatic conclusion connected to the rural landscape.
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Old town, viewpoints and a coffee as a travel pause.
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Baroque architecture, papier-mâché and Salento food: a city of telling details.
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The cathedral, Adriatic landscape and time to explore the historic centre.
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The bridge, churches and Ionian townscape beyond a beach holiday.
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The sanctuary, seafront architecture and the outline of the coast.
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Sea stacks, pine woodland and a contrast with Melendugno’s inland villages.
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The historic centre and Rudolph Valentino’s story in inland Puglia.
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Gargano: villages, woodland and coast.
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Vieste: old lanes and fishing structures.
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San Giovanni Rotondo: pilgrimage and town.
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Monte Sant’Angelo: the cave and Junno quarter.
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Tremiti: San Nicola and the island landscape.
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Foresta Umbra: Gargano beneath the beech trees.
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Peschici: the town above the cliff.
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Santeramo in Colle: details of the inhabited Murgia.
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