Puglia travel & food magazine
At the end of the summer the Italian series Costanza brought back the name of Selvaggia of Staufen, Frederick II’s daughter. It was filmed between Verona and Vicenza, but the story begins in Puglia: Castelpagano, Castel del Monte, Lucera, Oria, Trani. The real places, and a three-day route.
Everyone knows the postcard Gargano — Vieste, Peschici, the Tremiti. But the national park covers more than 120,000 hectares. Five hidden places: a medieval village, the paths off the map in the Foresta Umbra, the Daunian stelae, the hermits of Pulsano and the coast you can only reach by boat.
Nardò, Melendugno, Otranto, Gallipoli and Vieste hold Legambiente’s Cinque Vele.
Emerald to deep turquoise, reachable only from the water. How to see them, and when the light is right.
