Articles and magazines about Puglia (Apulia) in Italy.
Rick Stein travels to Sicily and Puglia – BBC TV
Rick Stein travelled through the Mediterranean sampling traditional recipes and local delicacies, and was inspired to create a few dishes of his own. Rick continued his travels in Sicily and enjoyed the colors and ambience of Catania's busy fish market. He then travelled to Puglia on Italy's mainland where the local dishes have been influenced by centuries of poverty. Rick cooked Peas with onions, parma ham and olive oil, then gave his take on a fennel sausage recipe he had tasted at a local restaurant...(read more).
BBC TV
August 2007
Les Pouilles, ancore un secret bien gardé
La region des Pouilles (Puglia, en italien) est facile à localiser sur une carte. L’Italie a la forme d’une botte. Les Pouilles, c’est le talon. Cette partie de l’Italie méridionale a une qualité secrète – chut on y trouve peu de touristes………Locorotondo est un village construit en rond. Tout est blanc, à l’exception de taches rouge vif que font les fleurs qui ornent les balcons de fer forgé. Le village de Ostuni est encore plus éblouissant, quoique une brise océane vous poursuit partout tandis que vous montez et descendez ses rues fortement inclinées en admirant les portails baroques de ses maisons impeccablement blanches. ……(read more).
Le Journal de Montreal
Juin 2007
The Heel Is Rising
Apulia, at the bottom of the Italian boot, has farmhouses turned into luxury hotels, compelling Baroque churches and a cuisine worth savoring. Just don't call it the next Tuscany….(read more).
New York Times
May 2007
Italy's heel has it all, except tourists
Puglia has some of the brightest seas, most diverse art and architecture, most mouthwatering peasant cuisine and kindest people in all of Italy -- including strangers who will go out of their way to lead you to one after another stunning beach on impossibly lapis-lazuli waters. Puglia is the heel to Italy's boot, and after two weeks spent touring the region, I felt grateful that charter airlines don't disgorge hordes of tourists here….(read more).
USA Today/Associated Press
April 2007
Talk about travel
"Done" Italy: I bet you've never been to the deep south. Puglia is one of the most romantic places there is. Peschici (or all of the Gargano Penninsula) is one of the most beautiful towns I've ever been in--whitewashed Greek-style with little twisting cobblestoned streets, perched on a cliff overlooking the turquoise sea. And it's cheap, as most of southern Italy is. The journey is gorgeous--a little train that twists its way through stark landscape covered in vines and ancient olive trees and oxen wandering by the side of the road. And don't even get me started on the food, which outshines anything northern Italy has to offer by far.
The Washington Post Travel
March 2007
At least I found my place in the Sun
For the past six years, Amanda Lamb has been singing the praises of owning a place in the sun. The presenter of A Place in the Sun has at last made a purchase abroad. And it’s not in Bulgaria, or Cape Verde, or Croatia, but Puglia in Southern Italy. “I just love Italy and the Italian way of life” says Amanda. “Puglia is becoming increasingly fashionable with Italians as well as British people”. “Sophia Loren stays here in the summer, Robert Johnson, the US editor of the stylish design and lifestyle magazine Wallpaper” is building a boutique hotel”.
The Mail on Sunday
March 2007
Southern spring is ripening
The good weather is arriving in Puglia, the foodie mecca – but not yet the crowds, says Rosanna de Lisle. Spring comes early to the Mediterranean and in Puglia, the heel of Italy’s boot, the wild flowers and blossom are out and the crowds are still months away. It’s already warm enough, on a fine day, to have lunch outside. Food is one of Puglia’s main draws. All of Puglia is too much for a short break, so stick to the Salentine Peninsula for sea air, good food and the baroque architecture of Lecce….(read more).
The Telegraph
February 2007
Something New Under The Sun
Look out, Tuscany, here comes Puglia. Down in Italy's heel, a rich and ancient culture is taking on a high-stepping style.
Brits have just now started to arrive after hearing that farmhouses and large tracts of land can be had for a fraction of the cost of those in Tuscany, and they have discovered that they like this part of Italy just as much....(read more).
Condé Nast Traveler
May 2006
In Italy, Coppola raises the profile of Rocky Basilicata
Instead of returning to the jungles of Guatemala, where Mr. Coppola built his last eco-chic retreat, he is going back to his roots in Basilicata, the Coppola ancestral home in southern Italy.
It’s more than appropriate. The raw ancient landscape is dotted with cinema-ready hilltop cities like ancient Matera, a maze of stone cave dwellings that dates back to the Paleolithic period. Indeed, it has been the setting for almost two dozen films, from “King David” starring Richard Gere to Mel Gibson’s “Passion of Christ. ”Two years ago, Mr. Coppola bought a 19th-century palazzo close to Matera in the smaller town of Bernalda and is converting it into a 10-suite boutique hotel to open as early as early as next year.
The New York Times
The first hotel and spa by Alessandro Agrati, designer for fashion label Culti, is further proof that Puglia is Italy’s hottest region for exclusive retreats. He bought a stunning 15th-century castle, perched above the ancient town of Ostuni and made each of the nine rooms unique. With the spa and a private beach, every indulgence is catered for.
Wallpaper Magazine
Puglia’s Prime
Culture, cooking, miles of coastline. . . No wonder this is Italy's newest 'next' place. Just don't call it Tuscany! Glossy travel magazines have already labeled Puglia "the next Tuscany" - a ridiculous tag that makes people in both places laugh or cringe. "The main difference" between the two regions, explained Alberto Giordano who left his retirement project of a restaurant in Tuscany to join an architectural firm doing big things in his parents' birthplace in Matera, "is the people"…..(read more).
The Washington Post
May 2005
Feeling Sassi? Go Explore Matera in Basilicata
Today, Matera is a small, lively city with a university, and the sassi are a growing tourist attraction -- a must-see on any tour of Puglia. Matera, historically part of Puglia and now just over the border in Basilicata, is about an hour inland by car from Alberobello…….About 20 films have been made here, the last being Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," which borrowed most of the locations from Pier Paolo Pasolini's 1964 film "The Gospel According to St. Matthew." Gibson scouted the world for a place that resembled ancient Jerusalem and found it in this once-neglected corner of Italy……..(read more).
The Washington Post
May 2005
Puglia: Italy's Next Great Escape
I was sipping walnut liqueur at an old café in the obscure Italian town of Altamura when I realized that, in the middle of nowhere, I'd just had one of the best food days of my life. And I had figured out why stylish Romans are spending their weekends in Puglia, the formerly destitute but agriculturally rich region in southern Italy. My friend and I saw the region's most enchanting towns, best restaurants and loveliest whitewashed hotels—and made sure to leave plenty of time to eat….(read more).
Food & Wine Magazine
March 2004
This Southern tip of Italy is destined to be the new Tuscany
The Times
It won't be long before chiese rupestre,
masserie and trulli become part of every serious Italophile's vocabulary. ...the weather is sublime. The food is superb...the sea is a translucent turquoise and the towns have lovely old centres with beautiful churches.
Condé Nast Traveler
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. 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.
Condé Nast Traveler
Why go to Puglia?
Well, for its 200 miles of sun-bleached coast - the longest coastline of any Italian region, which looks across the turquoise Adriatic, its beautiful beaches and unspoilt rural feel.
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Overview of Alberobello and the Trulli District
These curious structures, called trulli, were built at least as early as the 13th century. Their whitewashed limestone walls and conical fieldstone roofs utilize the materials available in the area in such a way that mortar isn't needed to keep the pieces together…..(read more).
Frommer’s
Highs in Italy's heel
The trulli traditional, rustic cupolas that tuft the countryside of Puglia along the heel of Italy's boot might seem more fitting to the Land of Oz than an industrialised country….(read more)
Financial times
Apulia: the heel of the boot
Apulia produces more wine than any other Italian region usually making up around 17% of the national total. Pugliese vintners pursue wines that effectively balance sweetness, acid, alcohol content and density. Apulia counts 25 DOC wines including the Primitivo di Manduria, a red named after the grape that has the same DNA as the American Zinfandel. The Accademia dei Racemi, an association that brings together vintners, agronomists and oenologists is dedicated to promoting and enhancing the quality of wine production in the region. Under the leadership of Mr. Gregory Polucci, it produces an excellent Primitivo and is experimenting with Zinfandel grapes imported from the USA. A special mention should be made of Salice Salentino, a powerful red produced in the Lecce province. It is made primarily with Negro Amaro and has gained an enthusiastic following abroad because of the excellent ratio quality-price…..
The Negro Amaro, which means "Bitter Black", produces deeply-colored and brawny wines with strong hints of tropical spices. It is among the most planted red grapes in Italy and notably, it is the base for the Salice Salentino DOC and other flavorful reds produced in the Salentine peninsula.
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