Puglia, land of smells, colors and flavors...

On this blog I will talk about a part of southern Italy, a land full of colors, smells and flavors, but also a land of sea, plains and mountains: Puglia
This land, both for it's position and for it's shape, is called "The heel of Italy's boot".
A region bathed by the Ionian and the Adriatic, with about 800 km of coasts starting from the Gargano, in the north, to Salento, in the south, offering an immensity of pristine seas, long sandy beaches, space to wander, and full of places where you can savor the delicious rustic cuisine.
It's sea to be seen, to swim and relax in the light breeze of late afternoon and evening, giving wonderful sunsets by the sea.

Puglia is also a land of mountains, with the fantastic Subappennino that is located in the province of Foggia, full of uncontaminated hills and mountains. 

Last but not least, Puglia is a land of endless plains, whose expanses of wheat offer to our sight a spectacle of quite wonderful shapes and colors.

The expanses of wheat, open-air vegetable gardens and up in the best pasta quality of Italy, shepherds of mountains and plains, farms that prefer quality and tradition instead of quantity, the fishermen who go the sea at night, then in the morning sell everything that they have fished.

There are all these things that make this wonderful land, a region based on a genuine, unique cuisine, varied and full of typical products with incomparable flavors: caciovalli, cans (from scamorza to delicious mozzarella,), hams, fragrant and full-bodied bread, and much more, are absolutely not to be missed.
In Puglia, without a many words, you eat well and a lot. You can prepare yourself for the rehaersed costume but once you are there you forget it, you can not avoid going home with a few extra pounds 😃 
Panzerotti, bombette it is a slice of rolled meat stuffed with cheese and covered with breadcrumbs; orecchiette with turnip tops; rice potatoes and mussels, and then the puccia a panini made with pizza dough which you can fill up with anything, and the pasticciotto, and then much more!!!!

Thanks to the different influences of ancient cultures such as the Roman, Christian, Byzantine, Norman, Angevin, Bourbon, Aragonese and Swabian, the cities and towns of Puglia offer their tourists an immensity of destinations and routes to visit.
Churches, monuments and palaces are characterized mostly by the Baroque architectural, which developed between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in the south of the region.

"White" is the color that dominates in many Apulian city, but also the farms that are born among the olive trees of the Valle d'Itria, the whitewashed houses are another distinctive trait of Puglia.
But your tour in Puglia will be accompanied by a lot of beautiful music, especially during the summer, it will be very easy to find yourself to watch, dance and applaud some traditional music concert, such as "the Pizzica", many of the concerts are free, organized in the squares of one of the many villages where there are parties and festival of all kind.

The food, art, culture, landscapes are the main reasons that pushes tourists to choose Puglia as their holiday destination, but another and not a little reason in the unique warmth of the Apulians and the welcome that they reserve for the stranger who is for any reason in Puglia.
it is very easy for an Apulian to give you the information you have asked to accompany you even as a guide for free, or even if you have had occasional chatter offers you something to drink in one of the many bars in the city...

Is not this a good reason to go for a ride in this fantastic land??