A region of cultural kaleidoscopy that is reflected in all its colors from the blue sea of its seas, to the shining white of its villages up to the silver of its olive trees ... a forbidden fruit of the desire between west and east that breathes passion and rebellious spirit ..
A land that has always been suspended between East and West, a real bridge (also geographic) between two worlds. A land that is many lands, a place that hides different souls left by the many dominations that have made it a kaleidoscopic culture. "Lu sule, lu mare e lu ientu" (the sun, the sea and the wind) of which Salento is its center and passionate and free soul that alternates the beaches of white and fine sand to a coast characterized by splendid and high cliffs interspersed with caves inside which the sea is tinged with magical colors and bridges the two Adriatic and Ionian seas, and for this forbidden fruit desired and disputed over the centuries by different populations of the Mediterranean, whose attacks soon determined the birth of defensive structures scattered throughout the territory and which still today testify to that ancestral fear of "Mamma Turchi". Our sea, once furrowed by enemy sails, resounds today with the cheerful voices of those who dive into its clear waters, immerse themselves in search of ancient treasures and to admire its submerged beauties, or simply let themselves be carried away by the wind in the hinterland where splendid expanses of ancient olive trees and vineyards whose borders, today as then, are marked by white dry stone walls, the ancient farms, the trulli and the pagghiare where you can still breathe the scents of ancient peasant memory inspiring our main traditions: festivals and patronal feasts where the profane is accompanied by the profane of local food and dances from a not too distant past. And if for the coast the color is lapis lazulo blue .. the hinterland is silver of the olive trees and white of the villages and cities .. which become its symbols ... and then Lecce, pearl that sparkles of Baroque .. "Florence of the South" ... Castel del Monte the paradigmatic octagonal medieval castle symbol of the Arab Puglia ... Alberobello and its trulli with a conical roof .. and the Tavoliere .. which, like a large table, is set up with old Masserie. .the dwellings used by the landowners and the farmers during the spring and summer season..which must taste all the best Mediterranean flavors of this generous land ... and finally the ancient Taras, Taranto, the capital of Magna Grecia, where the Doric temple of Poseidon stands out in the blue of the two seas ...
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APULIA FOR FUN FROM ZOO SAFARI TO THE WHITE TOWNS WITH PIC NIC
A journey of discovery in the Salento between Mediterranean atmospheres and white cities having fun, suspended between Africa and Greece, to taste the freedon soul with a pic nic for our Foodies pit stop
An experience with exotic flavors in Mediterranean scents will start us from the Zoo Safari park, the largest in Italy, where from the comfort of the car and on board a fantastic monorail above ground, it will be exciting to approach the five continents where, in a " semi-free ", lions, monkeys, zebras, tigers, bears, Indian elephants, giraffes, chimpanzees, reptiles, sea lions, hippos, rhinos and an infinite number of species of birds, enjoy themselves in the 140 hectares of Mediterranean park. A picnic will end the pleasant experience in the open air and then continue to stroll in miniature Puglia and the botanical park, before being enchanted with the visit of Ostuni, the charming white city where a walk, thanks to the special light of this limestone, between houses set in tiny alleys, will become a magical ending [...]
BRIGANTI'S TRAIL: WALKING WITH DONKEYS AND GRAVINE CAVES WITH LUNCH
A journey that will take us accompanied by donkeys, as in tradition, from the farms with a tasting with lunch dedicated to authenticity for our Foodies stop, up to the rock villages of the Gravine
It will be a slow journey in the authentic soul of the puglia of the farms to retrace the streets of the brigands and we would do it in the company of donkeys as locals !! On the cobbled streets of transhumance we would enter the Masserie for our foodies stop to taste the freshly milked donkey milk and for a country lunch dedicated to tradition with strictly organic and chain products. You can discover the Gravine, the karst rocks dug by the waters that since the neo-Palaeolithic era were a human settlement to become a refuge for brigands too where you can be surprised not only for the landscape show but for bizarre effigies still evident in these cave villages [...]
BRIGANTI'S TRAIL: WALKING WITH DONKEYS AND GRAVINE CAVES WITH LUNCH
