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A Self guided walking tour of Puglia & Basilicata7 unique country walks to hike Southern Italy in10 days & 9 nights

A journey between Matera, Lecce and Otranto to experience, atyour own pace, southern Italy art, nature and people.

On this walking holiday between Puglia and Basilicata, hiking olivegroves, breathtaking costal trails, old villages and vineyards, youwill explore a corner of Southern italy through a series of new andextraordinary walks, completely off the beaten tracks.

Puglia and Basilicata offer all the excitement of a unique walkingadventure, and the opportunity to explore a past rich of history, artand traditions, offering breathtaking nature, walks along forests,extinct volcanos, lakes and ravines. A trip where history explains artand art tells you the history of these regions, where human tracesand art go back to the time when Puglia & Basilicata were emergedfrom the sea. Originally populated by ancient people coming fromAnatolia, and Crete, both important Roman districts, Basilicata &Puglia with their Natural and Archaeological Parks, Dolmen andcrypts, rural churches and frescos, food and gastronomy make thiswalking holidays in southern Italy both unique and unmissable.

Trip details

Start/End: Matera | OtrantoDuration: 10 Days | 9 nightsCasual/Luxury: from € 1890 to € 2490

Dates: Start any day fromApril to Novemberall departuresguaranteed

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A self guided tour to hike Puglia and Basilicata,sample program. All tours can be tailor made.

Day 1 & 2 MateraYour walking holiday starts in Matera with a welcome aperitivo, abriefing and the first guided walk just to get familiar with the town ofstones, UNESCO World Heritage whose inhabitants used to live incaves carved out of limestone. The second day, after breakfastyou'll take the first country walk enjoying a guided trek along theGravina of Matera, where more than 120 rupestrian churches withByzantine frescos make this place unique and spectacular.Afternoon rest and dinner in one of the many restaurant of Matera,will conclude our day.

Day 3 & 4 Alberobello and the Itria Valleyafter breakfast a short private transfer to Alberobello will let youenjoy your second country walk and discover the Itria valleycharacterized by a flourishing vegetation where olive trees, whitetrulli (dry-stone houses with conical roofs made of lapidary stones)and local stone fortresses are scattered around. Two days toexplore and walk along extremely narrow roads, with sharp bendsand dead ends, tall narrow houses painted in their classic whitecolour and handsome buildings in baroque style. A visit to the localwinery might add a gourmet touch to the day, for those interested intasting the "Locorotondo", the famous white wine, considered one ofthe most promising quality white wines in the region.

Day 5 Ostunibreakfast and one more short transfer before your next walk willtake you to Ostuni the white town. Ostuni's charm lies in thecharacteristic white walls of the houses in the old town. In fact, allthe houses in the historic centre are only painted using white limepaint. This feature led to the town being called "the white town", thequeen of the olive groves" and the "city of the crib".

Day 6 - 7 Lecce & Gallipolitwo days and two extraordinary walks to explore the Florence ofSouthern Italy Lecce, its beautiful surrounding country side andwineyards. Discovering the old town centre of Lecce, with yourprivate cultural walk will be an exciting adventure among the mostrefined Baroque-style items and palaces of Puglia, where thearchitecture of portals, monuments and clerical buildings ischaracterised by some of the finest stone lacework. The city wasbuilt on the site of the ancient Roman town of Lupiae, wascontested by the Byzantines, Lombards, and Saracens, elevated toa countship by the Normans and passed to the Aragonese kings ofNaples in the in 1463. With its cathedral, the Basilica of SantaCroce, Churches and fine Baroque buildings is well known as theFlorence of the south. A trek along the wineyrds surrounding Leccewith a private wine tasting tour will ensure some extra activity foryour second day.

Day 8 Otranto & the Adriatic coasttoday a short transfer by a typical local train will take you to thestarting point. After an optional visit to the local museun and cryptsto admire some unique wall paintings, this unique custom walktoward the adriatic coast will take you to the next hotel, not far from

Trip highlights

Unique country walks & trailsfine wine and local foodExtraordinary landscapes and sceneriesCultural tours

This trip includes

9 nights accommodation & breakfast2 dinner with wine24h support of local managermaps and instruction and use of a GPSall transfer as per itinerary1 private guided trekkingtutored wine tastinghands on cooking classluggage transfer during the tour2 private cultural walks (Lecce - Matera)

Not included

Flights & insuranceEverything not mentioned on the included listabove

Accommodation

Classic accommodation is provided by aselection of charming 3 star hotels, B&B &family run Masserie (traditional restored farmhouse).Luxury accommodation is provided by aselection of 4 & 5 star luxury hotels andMasserie.All rooms have en suite bathrooms, cost arecalculated on two sharing a double room, andincludes breakfast.

Please enquire for a detailed tour programor to tailor made your itinerary andinclusion.


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Day 9 Otranto old town and the adriatic coastafter breakfast you'll start the last trekking that will take you toOtranto. In the afternoon after a siesta, you might take a walk todiscover and admire the town center, the Aragonese Castello andthe Cathedral with the marvelous floor mosaic (1166) and its tree oflife. Otranto is one of the easterly city of Italy at Roman time, it wasmore important than Brindisium as a point of embarkation for theEast a charming pearl that give life to the words of RobertoCotroneo: Otranto is "a collapsed star which includes the entireuniverse, where there is daily life and history, where the years donot go by and everything seems to interpenetrate, where it is easyfor ghosts to speak to you in the streets, and where everyoneknows they are in an unusual place, where time curves back onitself, it is not a straight line, and curving it withdraws into itself".

Day 10 Departurebreakfast and transfer to Lecce for train or airport connections.

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