| WHY GO |
| Puglia, the remote heel of Italy's boot, dramatically combines fairytale cottages, Baroque churches and Pagan dances. This captivating region is served by two airports in the towns of Bari and Brindisi, but the area is not an obvious destination for foreign visitors. Italian families return every year in July and August to the half-board hotels, campsites and tourist villages that proliferate the coast. But handsome Baroque towns such as Martina Franca and the engaging Lecce - the 'Florence of the Baroque', see only a handful of visitors each day. And if you decide to explore some of the area's more remote Basilian chapels or prehistoric dolmens, you will be gloriously alone. |
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