You can appreciate Apulian hospitality in many ways: the spontaneous generosity and liveliness of its inhabitants, the intense colours of the landscape, the dazzling white of the little streets and houses, the wide valleys of vineyards and olive-groves and, first of all, the delicious specialities of the Apulian traditional cuisine.
Wheat, oil and wine: three simple and healthy elements which have caught the attention of all experienced nutritionists of the world, who believe that our cuisine is the healthiest in the world.
Home-made pasta, "focacce" and "pizzelle" made according to the traditional recipe, fresh cheeses such as "burrate" or "cacio", all sorts of season jams and preserves are only some of the delicacies we will discover in our tour among wine farms and "masserie".
We'll start from the Itria Valley, the land of young white grapes which change into the noble white wine of Locorotondo; then we'll move northward where we'll visit a famous wine farm and, finally, we'll discover the Apulian "masserie", where once farmers and landowners used to live together in a self-sufficient world: they lived on what they produced and only here it's still possible to find the genuine country products. The tour will stop only after visiting some wine farms of the Salentine
peninsula in which we'll taste some of the finest Apulian wines.

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ITINERARY
1st day Arrival and transfer to a hotel in the district of Brindisi
2nd day Visit of a wine farm and of a dairy in Locorotondo - visit of a wine farm in Martina Franca - Cisternino
3rd day Bari - visit of a wine farm in Andria - Castel del Monte
4th day Tour of masserie (Apulian farmhouses)
5th day Cooking lesson in a masseria - Castellana Grotte - Alberobello - Ostuni
6th day Lecce - Tour of some wine farms in Salento
7th day Visit of a famous Apulian bakery in Altamura - Visit of a wine farm in Gravina
8th day Transfer to Bari or Brindisi airport

GENERAL INFO
Stay of 8 days / 7 nights
Minimum 14 maximum 17 people
Accomodation in a 4-stars hotel in double/single rooms

The package includes:
accomodation in 4-stars hotel in double room with private bathroom; 5 x halfboard and 2 x B&B; 8 meals in restaurants;1 cooking lesson in a masseria; 6 full-day excursions with foreign language speaking guide; entrance tickets as in programme; private bus for excursions and transfer service from/to airport.
The package does not include:
flight from/to Bari or Brindisi airport, all extra charges.

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