For decades, tourists failed to notice Puglia. The sun-drenched heel of Italy remained in the shadows of Tuscany, the Amalfi Coast, Rome and Venice... That's the trouble with being the poor ...

The journey begins above Alberobello, where hundreds of whitewashed trulli with their distinctive stone cone roofs create one ...

Today, the trulli of Alberobello are a Unesco World Heritage site, although many people have never heard of these ingenious structures. Fifty-six kilometres south of the Puglian port city of Bari, on ...

Alberobello, or 'the land of dwarf houses', is a small town in Southern Italy, and has long been hailed as one of the most beautiful villages in the country. In a thread posted on 'X' (formerly ...

"Puglia? Where's that?" My friend Vicki furrowed her brow, trying in vain to pinpoint Puglia on her mental map. Now, Vicki is one of the most adventurous explorers I know, having once driven across ...

My first trullo was above Fasano. I'd just climbed 990 feet from the Puglian coastal plain with its large box-like masserias and suddenly there it was, a round whitewashed structure with a circular ...