PUGLIA: Voyage of Discovery

We recently spent almost 2 weeks in Puglia, Italy. It is a phenomenal region of Italy's heel and is surrounded by two startlingly blue seas, the Adriatic and the Ionian.  The following photos are just a few of the first five days of our trip.  More to follow in due course.

We stayed in the small town of Mola di Bari where it was the annual 3-day Festa

Delicious figs and plums

Sweet little girls dressed in clothes worn by the Madonna Addolorata of Mola

Hand-crafted orecchiette made by ladies in the back streets of Bari

                                          This is how the mail gets delivered in Bari

Spaghetti All' Assassina (burnt spaghetti), a specialty of Bari

Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari

A bunch of table grapes which will soon be picked

                                                              Sunset over Gallipoli

Frescoes adorn the ceiling of the Basilica in Galatina

The massive Castello Aragonese in Otranto

                                                              The city of Locorotondo

                                                    Rose window in the Cathedral of Trani

Cathedral of San Nicola in Trani

Castello del Monte

Panoramic view from the top of hill where Castello del Monte is located

The extraordinary city of Matera on the border of Puglia and Basilicata

Glimpses of the Adriatic Sea from speeding car

The harbor in Trani

Interior of the Cathedral of Trani with reflected light from the sea

The "White City" of Ostuni

The Baroque Cathedral of Matera

The town square of Ostuni with the Column of St. Osterius in the foreground 

Dawn over the harbor of Mola di Bari