Puglia travel & food magazine
In August in the Salento you do not plan, you cope. Sagre, luminarie, patron saints’ feasts and the Concertone at Melpignano: the calendar day by day, and the five to pick if time is short.
From 21 August to 3 September 2026, Taranto hosted the 20th Mediterranean Games: 4,000 athletes, 26 nations, 29 disciplines and 21 Apulian towns. Italy finished top of the medal table with 224 medals. The final table, the diary of every day, the sports and the venues.
Opera in the masserie of the Valle d’Itria, the light cathedrals of Scorrano, John Legend at Ostuni and the octopus festival at Mola di Bari. What a Puglian July looks like, with the 2026 calendar as the worked example.
