A Self guided walking tour of Puglia & Basilicata 7 unique country walks to hike Southern Italy in 10 days & 9 nights A journey between Matera, Lecce and Otranto to experience, at your own pace, southern Italy art, nature and people. On this self guided walking holiday between Puglia and Basilicata, hiking olive groves, breathtaking costal trails, old villages and vineyards, you will explore a corner of Southern italy through a series of new and extraordinary walks, completely off the beaten tracks.

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A Self guided walking tour of Puglia & Basilicata
7 unique country walks to hike Southern Italy in
10 days & 9 nights
A journey between Matera, Lecce and Otranto to experience, at
your own pace, southern Italy art, nature and people.
On this walking holiday between Puglia and Basilicata, hiking olive
groves, breathtaking costal trails, old villages and vineyards, you
will explore a corner of Southern italy through a series of new and
extraordinary walks, completely off the beaten tracks.
Trip details
Puglia and Basilicata offer all the excitement of a unique walking
Start/End: Matera | Otranto
adventure, and the opportunity to explore a past rich of history, art
Duration: 10 Days | 9 nights
and traditions, offering breathtaking nature, walks along forests,
extinct volcanos, lakes and ravines. A trip where history explains art Casual/Luxury: from € 1890 to € 2490
and art tells you the history of these regions, where human traces
and art go back to the time when Puglia & Basilicata were emerged Dates: Start any day from
from the sea. Originally populated by ancient people coming from April to November
Anatolia, and Crete, both important Roman districts, Basilicata & all departures
Puglia with their Natural and Archaeological Parks, Dolmen and guaranteed
crypts, rural churches and frescos, food and gastronomy make this
walking holidays in southern Italy both unique and unmissable.
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walks sample tour program
A self guided tour to hike Puglia and Basilicata,
sample program. All tours can be tailor made.
Day 1 & 2 Matera
Your walking holiday starts in Matera with a welcome aperitivo, a
briefing and the first guided walk just to get familiar with the town of Trip highlights
stones, UNESCO World Heritage whose inhabitants used to live in Unique country walks & trails
caves carved out of limestone. The second day, after breakfast fine wine and local food
you'll take the first country walk enjoying a guided trek along the Extraordinary landscapes and sceneries
Gravina of Matera, where more than 120 rupestrian churches with Cultural tours
Byzantine frescos make this place unique and spectacular.
Afternoon rest and dinner in one of the many restaurant of Matera,
This trip includes
will conclude our day.
9 nights accommodation & breakfast
Day 3 & 4 Alberobello and the Itria Valley 2 dinner with wine
after breakfast a short private transfer to Alberobello will let you 24h support of local manager
enjoy your second country walk and discover the Itria valley maps and instruction and use of a GPS
characterized by a flourishing vegetation where olive trees, white all transfer as per itinerary
trulli (dry-stone houses with conical roofs made of lapidary stones) 1 private guided trekking
and local stone fortresses are scattered around. Two days to tutored wine tasting
explore and walk along extremely narrow roads, with sharp bends hands on cooking class
and dead ends, tall narrow houses painted in their classic white luggage transfer during the tour
colour and handsome buildings in baroque style. A visit to the local 2 private cultural walks (Lecce - Matera)
winery might add a gourmet touch to the day, for those interested in
tasting the "Locorotondo", the famous white wine, considered one of Not included
the most promising quality white wines in the region.
Flights & insurance
Everything not mentioned on the included list
Day 5 Ostuni
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breakfast and one more short transfer before your next walk will
take you to Ostuni the white town. Ostuni's charm lies in the
characteristic white walls of the houses in the old town. In fact, all
the houses in the historic centre are only painted using white lime
paint. This feature led to the town being called "the white town", the
queen of the olive groves" and the "city of the crib".
Day 6 - 7 Lecce & Gallipoli
two days and two extraordinary walks to explore the Florence of
Southern Italy Lecce, its beautiful surrounding country side and
wineyards. Discovering the old town centre of Lecce, with your
private cultural walk will be an exciting adventure among the most
refined Baroque-style items and palaces of Puglia, where the
Accommodation
architecture of portals, monuments and clerical buildings is
characterised by some of the finest stone lacework. The city was Classic accommodation is provided by a
built on the site of the ancient Roman town of Lupiae, was selection of charming 3 star hotels, B&B &
contested by the Byzantines, Lombards, and Saracens, elevated to family run Masserie (traditional restored farm
a countship by the Normans and passed to the Aragonese kings of house).
Naples in the in 1463. With its cathedral, the Basilica of Santa Luxury accommodation is provided by a
Croce, Churches and fine Baroque buildings is well known as the selection of 4 & 5 star luxury hotels and
Florence of the south. A trek along the wineyrds surrounding Lecce Masserie.
with a private wine tasting tour will ensure some extra activity for All rooms have en suite bathrooms, cost are
your second day. calculated on two sharing a double room, and
includes breakfast.
Day 8 Otranto & the Adriatic coast
today a short transfer by a typical local train will take you to the Please enquire for a detailed tour program
starting point. After an optional visit to the local museun and crypts or to tailor made your itinerary and
to admire some unique wall paintings, this unique custom walk inclusion.
toward the adriatic coast will take you to the next hotel, not far from
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where Enea shored and where some of the oldest graffiti of Europe
where found.
Day 9 Otranto old town and the adriatic coast
after breakfast you'll start the last trekking that will take you to
Otranto. In the afternoon after a siesta, you might take a walk to
discover and admire the town center, the Aragonese Castello and
the Cathedral with the marvelous floor mosaic (1166) and its tree of
life. Otranto is one of the easterly city of Italy at Roman time, it was
more important than Brindisium as a point of embarkation for the
East a charming pearl that give life to the words of Roberto
Cotroneo: Otranto is "a collapsed star which includes the entire www.flickr.com
universe, where there is daily life and history, where the years do
not go by and everything seems to interpenetrate, where it is easy
for ghosts to speak to you in the streets, and where everyone
knows they are in an unusual place, where time curves back on
itself, it is not a straight line, and curving it withdraws into itself".
Day 10 Departure
breakfast and transfer to Lecce for train or airport connections.
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