Explore Puglia from Bari to Lecce with cave-city Matera, trulli stays in Alberobello, and tastings of bread, cheese, olive oil and wine along a sun-drenched coastline.
  • Taste Altamura bread, taralli, focaccia, and local wine.
  • Visit the octagonal UNESCO-listed Castel del Monte.
  • Explore Matera’s Sassi caves and rock-carved churches.
  • Walk among Alberobello’s whitewashed trulli and the Trullo Sovrano.
  • Descend into the Castellana Caves’ stalactites, stalagmites, and fossils.
  • Visit an underground olive press at Masseria Frantoio Ipogeo.
  • See Otranto Cathedral’s mosaic Tree of Life.
  • Discover Lecce’s Baroque Basilica di Santa Croce and Piazza del Duomo.
Stay in well-located hotels throughout: one night at Hotel Excelsior Bari near the station, two nights amid Matera’s atmospheric Sassi at Hotel Sassi, two nights in Alberobello’s traditional trulli at Hotel Trullidea, and two nights in Lecce at contemporary Hotel Eos; occasional split accommodations in Matera.