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PUGLIA, OR LE PUGLIE

PUGLIA, OR LE PUGLIE.

Across the Apulian territories among sea, countryside, historical cities and an important culinary tradition.

About 800 km of coastline distributed between the Ionian and Adriatic seas, give the traveler a colorful spectacle.

Because the color is the main character of Puglie, or better, of Puglia, with a thousand shades of blue and emerald sea green, yellow and white of the sandy beaches; gray coastlines that slope sometimes gently at times to peak in the deep waters.

For those who want to know and be surprised by the authenticity of the places, this region enjoys the wonders of the natural landscape that alternates between the spontaneity of the Mediterranean olive trees silver, the changing colors of the vineyards and gardens that alternate with deep red of the land.

Also charms with blinding white light of the fishing villages or Baroque buildings, it is to live the unique experience of places and hospitable people, conquer curious palate with intense flavors of simple ingredients that cause important dishes.

From north to south, Puglia is to discover!

Across apulian territories:

Murgia

The Murgia‘s Culture and Traditions. In addition to a lot of green and with some of the most beautiful landscapes of southern Italy, Murgia capture and it is to be appreciated for many activities, fot its scents and for the flavors of local gastronomy.

Bari’s land

The Bari area extends between the last step of Murgia and the coastline. It is a karst area, with altitudes almost constantly decreasing from 300-400 meters above sea level in the inner points to the sea.

Alberobello, Valle d’Itria and Costa Merlata

Alberobello, Valle d’Itria and the Costa Merlata welcome visitors with expanses of olive trees dotted with trulli … unparalleled, trees that dominate the red of the land and buildings that in the historic center of Alberobello became a UNESCO heritage created by the skilled hands of men and that make the scene around a succession of wonderful color effects, till the sea.

Ionian coast

The Ionian coast is characterized by wide beaches and a limpid water gently sloping into deepness. Karst hills just as an arch protects Taranto, known as the ‘city of two seas’, the capital of a region that got a strong tourist vocation and popular food and wine tradition.

Puglia Imperiale

Crossing the territory of Puglia Imperiale, from the plateau of the Murgia descend to the Adriatic coast between Barletta and Trani, with the feeling review the history of a land that is rich in evidence with a beautiful countryside that serves as a background to big farms, historical cities heart, cathedrals, castles .. with Castel del Monte that catches the eye throug all the way.

Gargano, Capitanata and Daunia

The territory extending from the Gargano to Daunia presents a variety of scenarios: sweet hills in Fortore river valley, Daunian Apennine area and Ofanto river valley, the plain of Tavoliere, the Gargano National Park area view on the untouched archipelago of the Tremiti Islands.

Salento

The sun, the sea, the wind … the Salento. It is the nature the first thing that strikes coming in this land stretch between two seas. The Salento has its heart in the province of Lecce and reaches the Adriatic to Brindisi and Taranto, on the Ionian sea.

Puglia, or Puglie

Puglie, or rather, Puglia has many qualities and if the lack of high mountains is compensated by the proximity to the Abruzzo and Basilicata, from Gargano to Salento there is really everything.

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2020-03-24
Biodiversity, arts and crafts show in Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi, Puglia). On October 27th and 28th at the ISA Bottega.
Biodiversity, arts and crafts show in Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi, Puglia). On October 27th and 28th at the ISA Bottega.

è un progetto inserito in Lab Dispensa dei Tipici – lab.dispensadeitipici.it

Thanks to the partnership between Dispensa dei Tipici and ISA Sustainable Business of Artisan women and thanks to their partners, in Ceglie Messapica will alternate cultural aperitifs, an exhibition of illustrated poems, creative showing for children and an exhibition on apulian biodiversity, workshops and demonstrations of crochet, knitting, 3d printing …

arcobaleno in Dispensa brings “Tastes of Biodiversity” to Ceglie Messapica on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October, as part of the Festival of Pumpkin and Autumn Flavors thanks to the partnership between Dispensa dei Tipici and ISA Sustainable Business of Artisan women and thanks to their partner.

– registrati all’evento Facebook > http://bit.ly/ddt00008

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At the ISA’s workshop in via Garibaldi 73 and at the Bar Magia in via G.Elia 9, there will be: cultural aperitifs, an exhibition of illustrated poems, creative sowing for children and an exhibition on apulian biodiversity, workshops and demonstrations of crochet, knitting, 3d printing …

Arcobaleno in Dispensa was born from the will of Alessio Magistro and Nico Paulangelo. The want is to activate contaminations between crafts, food and art, three of the sectors on which the relaunch of Puglia and Basilicata is being founded. The idea is to set up temporary spaces in which the distances are canceled between producer / artist and user / consumer.

Dispensa dei Tipici is a Territorial Marketing project, something more than just e-commerce. Starting with the love for the Murgia, Puglia and Basilicata – in southern Italy – the idea is to increase awarenes of Typical Products, inviting consumers to travel the production area and to discover companies, culture and traditions.

ISA – Sustainable Business of Artisan women is a group of young women who bring values, experiences and resources together to establish themselves as a women’s craft enterprise based on innovation, reuse, creativity and relationship. ISA is an innovative company that, in addition to creating social value and opportunities for growth for itself and for its territory, convert waste materials or unused objects into new design objects and green products. ISA contributes to reducing the waste of business and to give value to waste materials.

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At the ISA’s workshop, in Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi, Puglia) address via Garibaldi, 73.

GPS> 40.647070, 17.516124 > http://bit.ly/ddt00009

━━━ INFO ━━━

Free Entry.

Daniela Trisolino – area Marketing&Comunicazione ISA
+39 3890817431 – info@isaartigiane.it

Nico Paulangelo – area Marketing&Comunicazione Dispensa dei Tipici
+39 3934628548 – info@dispensadeitipici.it

━━━ PROGRAM OF ACTIVITIES ━━━

saturday 27th october

at the ISA’s workshop (via Garibaldi 73, Ceglie Messapica)

h 18-23:
fruit exhibition about apulian biodiversity with CRSFA Basile Caramia and ITS Fondazione Agroalimentare Puglia

h 18-23:
Illustrated Poems exhibit

h 17-19:
“intrecci” crochet techniques and knitting demonstration

h 19-21:
“creative sowing” – educational workshop for children, creation of a jar with recovery material and sowing of pumpkin seeds to educate to the art of recycling and to the environment care

h 21-23:
“the many faces of creative craftsmanship” 3D printer and creation demonstration; ex-tempore painting with natural elements and recycled materials

at the bar Magia (via G.Elia 9, Ceglie Messapica)

h 18-23:
Illustrated Poems exhibit and talking about the “Casa della Poesia” project

h 22:00:
Presentation and reading with La Befana Stralunata of Alessio Magistro

sunday 28th october

at the bar Magia (via G.Elia 9, Ceglie Messapica)

ore 12:00:
cultural aperitif with Alessio Magistro and its book La Befana Stralunata

at the ISA’s workshop (via Garibaldi 73, Ceglie Messapica)

h 18-23:
fruit exhibition about apulian biodiversity with CRSFA Basile Caramia and ITS Fondazione Agroalimentare Puglia

h 18-23:
Illustrated Poems exhibit

h 17-19:
“intrecci” crochet techniques and knitting demonstration

h 19-21:
“creative sowing” – educational workshop for children, creation of a jar with recovery material and sowing of pumpkin seeds to educate to the art of recycling and to the environment care

h 21-23:
“the many faces of creative craftsmanship” 3D printer and creation demonstration; ex-tempore painting with natural elements and recycled materials

More info about activities:

– on website http://lab.dispensadeitipici.it

━━━ PARTNER ━━━

– Alessio Magistro
– Caffè Letterario bar Magia
– Festa del goloso
– Ex terra srl- società benefit
– Casa della Poesia
– ITS Fondazione Agroalimentare Puglia
– Centro di Ricerca, Sperimentazione e Formazione in Agricoltura Basile Caramia

More info about partner:

– on website http://lab.dispensadeitipici.it

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2018-10-18
The golden triangle – part two

The golden triangle – part two.

it is an article by Città Meridiane – cittameridiane.it

The rock settlements between Monopoli and Fasano.

Returning to Lama d’Antico, it was certainly one of the largest and inhabited settlements where nothing was missing: houses into the rock with chambers and cisterns for collecting rainwater, shelters for animals, mills for the milling of olives, spaces to host work environments and the magnificent church, completely painted with frescoes.

It is a true cathedral with a central dome, one of the largest cave churches all aroung Puglia. Inside you enter through a monumental entrance that leads into a distinct environment in two apsed naves. Originally the church was completely frescoed but today most of the paintings are faded. A Maiestas Domini is still visible on the lunette of the central apse and on the left wall there is the figure of the apostle Giovanni Evangelista who blesses.

Also in the Archeological Park of Lama d’Antico, the church of San Lorenzo is included, in which a particular iconostasis is conserved and strongly linked to the Greek-Orthodox religious services. And it is precisely here that we find the two Holy Fathers: St. Basil of the Orthodox Church and St. Benedict of the Latin Church. Remarkable are the other wall paintings that are painted with pictorial ability and accuracy for the use of colors and the intensely expressive features of the faces that make this church one of the most fascinating examples of Byzantine art in the canyons of Fasano.

Among the most interesting houses there is Sant’Andrea and San Procopio, in the territory of Monopoli, which can be reached from Masseria Rosati. In the Assunta’s canyon there are numerous cave-dwellings, a mill, an oil mill and other rooms for handicraft use, and the crypt church with a sculpted front with great care and skill. Very interesting is the long inscription engraved in Latin above the lunette that dates the church to 1073.

Also the bema of this church is unusual in the area, as it has a double separation in stone 50 cm high with two openings in the direction of the apses. With regard to the wall paintings, a Saint George on horseback, the saint of the Crusades, is still visible. In the paintings of San Procopio one can perceive the passage from the Byzantine tradition to a new pictorial current of western inspiration with Norman-Swabian matrix.

Angevins paintings are present in the depiction of Sant’Eligio painted with bright colors and the symbols attributed to him by tradition as patron of the farriers: two nails, a hammer, a pincer, a horseshoe and a small black mule.

Our tour ends in the canyon near the Masseria Ottava Grande (Provincial Road 10, Contrada Ottava, Montalbano di Fasano – phone +39 320 6844285 – www.masseriaottavagrande.it – info@masseriaottavagrande.it), a ravine with high walls rocky with a system of large caves of which some used as a oil mill consisting of three large rooms and other small rooms and equipped with millstone working until the ’50s. In front of the farm, the oldest example of a fortified tower, the church of San Pietro from the 12th century which – as explained by the archaeologist Roberta Mussardo, who in the meantime has been added to us – is a typical example of a domed building in axis, whose scheme spread widely in Puglia from the 8th to the 13th century.

The church is a small jewel in which the simple exterior architecture does not predict the extent and the internal richness.

Impressing are the pillars that extend upwards and support the arches of the three domes made with cross vaults.

Subsequently, San Pietro was decorated with elegant floral motifs.

It should be noted that the building has returned to being usable thanks to the Indelli family that owns it, after a long period of neglect. Together with the church the rural house has also been recovered, which is located in the canyon next to which stands an ancient style and a fragrant citrus grove closed by high walls covered in cocciopesto and equipped with stone channels to bring the water from the cistern.

read also THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE – PART ONE

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2018-01-06
Alberobello and the Valle d’Itria

Alberobello and the Valle d’Itria.

it’s an article by Italia.it – italia.it

The Valle d’Itria welcome the visitor with unmatched olive tree groves, trees born from a red soil that perfume and makes the landscape around a succession of wonderful chromatic effects.

Also known as the Trulli’s Valley, the Valle d’Itria is collocated between the Apulian provinces of Bari, Brindisi and Taranto (Puglia, Italy) and includes many towns including Alberobello, Carovigno, Castellana Grotte, Ceglie Messapica, Cisternino, Fasano, Locorotondo, Martina Franca, Walnuts, Ostuni, Putignano, San Michele Salentino, San Vito dei Normanni and Villa Castelli.

Perhaps due to the white of the buildings or due to the vegetation that frames them, every town and every village of the valley, is wrapped in a magical, almost fairy-tale atmosphere.

In the heart of the Itria Valley, Alberobello is a must-place to visit with its trulli, a UNESCO site listed in the World Heritage List in 1996. It is impossible not to be fascinated by a walk along the streets of Monti and Aja Piccola.

In the valley there is not only Alberobello. The country sourrounding is scattered about beautiful villages with typical buildings: just think about Cisternino, which rises in this area called “Murgia of the Trulli” counted, together with the nearby Locorotondo, among the most beautiful villages in Italy. Mentioned until the mid-eighteenth century “Luogorotondo” for the characteristic roundabouts of the historical centre.

Between Bari and Taranto is located Martina Franca, the most populated town in the Itria Valley, well-known for its beautiful Baroque architecture and the same musical festival.

Then, there is the White City, the only one in the valley with a balcony on the sea: Ostuni. Called White city due to its characteristic old town, once entirely painted with white. Ostuni is together with Taranto and Santa Maria di Leuca, one of the ideal vertices of the Salento peninsula.

Absolutely to do a “trip to the center of the earth”, to the Caves of Castellana (in the municipality of Castellana Grotte), where Grave, the first and largest cave as well as the only one connected to the outside, and then the White Cave will leave speechless words to any visitor.

In Alberobello, among the trulli, local association organize in a spectacular scenery the Living Nativity, in December, and the Living Passion during the Easter period.

In Martina Franca, in July, since 1975, you find the Festival of the Itria Valley.

On the hill overlooking the elegant village of Fasano, you find the homonymous selva “Selva di Fasano” inside which you find the Zoo Safari, a park suitable for children and old people who offers the visitor a truly amazing experience; Over 40 animal species to discover into the wild.

Walking, workshops and tastings at the several educational farms, farms distributed throughout the territory that propose for schools, but not only, direct observation and study experiences, and then manipulations, fruit harvest, participation in the various stages of transformation Of agricultural products, creation of small objects in clay, tasting of typical products.
For example “Sporcamussi”: you can not get up from the table without the dirty mouth of cream and sugar. They are the typical desserts of Bari and Itria Valley, and they got that name because they are so good that, eating them in a single bite, they delight the palate but also they leave traces!

2017-02-25
Ostuni the white town

Ostuni the white town.

Article taken from solobuonoblog.wordpress.com

Ostuni goes up and down, then descends and ascends, in a labyrinth of bright streets both day and night.

To create that light is the white, widespread white that gives to Ostuni, in fact, the name of Ostuni the white town.

Located in the province of Brindisi (Puglia, Italy) near the Murge, Ostuni overlooks the Adriatic Sea, in one of the most beautiful and clean parts of the entire coast. Seventeen kilometers of coastline offer great and sunny beaches, suitable for all types of tourism, and the respective tourists needs.

The city is entertaining especially in summer, which is full of tourists who, throughout the maze of narrow streets, alleys with its characteristic whitewashed color, enjoy the summer, and a light that only Ostuni can offer. So much art, numerous churches, various civilizations have alternated, make Ostuni one of the most beautiful towns in Italy, able to really offer everything to tourists: not only the sealife.

Ostuni is one of the most elegant ever city views, landscape, even at night, even with the moon, gives emotions never felt before.

Do not wait for the summer: go for it!

photo by Comune di Ostuni

2017-02-11