Accommodation holiday southern Italy in Puglia: Holiday home, holiday villas and trulli, farm holiday, bed & breakfast in Monopoli, Polignano a Mare, Castellana Grotte, Alberobello, Torre Canne.

Puglia is Italy's boot heel. This is a wonderful area to consider because it offers lots of reasons to have an holiday in Italy: at least one excellent archeological museum, a host of cathedrals dating back to the 10th century, Greek and Roman ruins, a gleaming necklace of lively fishing villages, one of Europe's largest forests, a chain of medieval hilltowns, and some of the very cleanest beaches and water in the Mediterranean.
Apulia produces one-tenth of the wine drunk in Europe; its olive oil is renowned.

There is one other attraction that you will see only in Apulia, and that is i trulli. Whitewashed cones made of stones held together without mortar, they are visible in almost every wheat field and olive grove, where they serve as miniature barns, they are at their most picturesque when clustered together in the hundreds, to form a town.
Along with the conical trulli, another of Puglia's characteristic buildings is the 'masserie'. They are a type of communal housing which allowed the rural community to live and work in autonomous groups. The Masserie were first constructed to protect the inhabitants from attacks by pirates and brigands over 200 years ago. Inside each masserie was a large courtyard surrounded by residential accommodation and functional rooms. In the 17th and 18th centuries they took on more elaborate forms as the need for protection decreased. Terraces, fountains and even monumental staircases were added. It was only in the 1970's a few started to open their doors to paying visitors. After many years of slow progress the last year or two has seen a relative boom time for everyone who has painstakingly invested in these historical structures. Many have wanted to preserve the original function of the masserie in some way and have created spaces to connect guests with the traditional activities, but at the same time offering then height of modern luxury.

Puglia is a land full of traditions and religious feasts, which bring together the main expression of its folklore. The patron saints' days are celebrated in each settlement with processions, torchlight parades, and fireworks, against a backdrop of market stalls.
Then there are particular rites and traditions whose roots are to be found in other historical moments and have significant historical-anthropological importance.
We suggest to have an holiday vacation in Italy and to enjoy the Folklore and local traditions that take place all over the year: the "Presepi Viventi" at Christmas the rites of the Holy Week in Taranto; the very long Carnevale of Putignano, the Carnevale in Massafra, the performance of the Disfida of Barletta, the historical parade of the "Torneo dei Rioni" in Oria, the sea parade on boats of San Cataldo in Taranto, the "la Caravella" Fair of S. Nicola in Bari, the summer village fairs. Among the main cultural events is worthy to mention the "Festival della Valle d'Itria" and the Annual "Meeting on Magna Graecia".