Puglia offers the best of Italy with fewer crowds—at least in the off-season.

At a hotel like Le Alcove in Alberobello, you can sleep in a trullo, a cozy, cocoon-like conical dwelling. Sample orecchiette, Puglia’s signature ear-shaped pasta, at a traditional eatery like Osteria ...

The most important decision you’ll make each day. Puglia is culinarily self-sustainable, and known for using exclusively local products; it’s common that a restaurant or hotel even makes their own ...

There’s a French-Italian film by Marco Ferreri called La Grand Bouffe about a group of friends that decide to eat themselves to death. While the point of the movie is to satire consumerism, you ...

White city … Ostuni, Puglia. Photograph: Alamy Beyond Puglia’s crowded hotspots, there are nature reserves, dramatic caves, medieval quarters and several hundred ...

Roll out of Bari or Brindisi airport on to the autostrada and you could be forgiven for feeling a little disappointed by the landscape that lies before you – flat, parched and blighted by poor civic ...

This sun-drenched southern region offers the best of Italy with fewer crowds—at least in the off-season. At a hotel like Le Alcove in Alberobello, you can sleep in a trullo, a cozy, cocoon-like ...