Puglia travel & food magazine
From 18 to 20 September 2026 Gravina in Puglia hosts the 24th edition of Historia, the gathering of historical pageants: the Orsini on Friday, Frederick II and Dario Fo on Saturday, Charles II of Anjou and the great procession on Sunday. The programme with times and squares.
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.
At the end of August, in Puglia, the ones who came home go back. How that car was packed, what went into it and why – and a date that should not be forgotten: on 8 August 1956, 22 miners from Puglia died at Marcinelle.
Crates of tomatoes, the hand-cranked mill, the fizzy-drink bottles washed since January and the method called alla manta, which takes its name from the blankets: what the last Sunday of August looked like in an Apulian courtyard.
White stone against blue, with nothing between the church and the sea.
A Neanderthal skeleton fused into the rock of a cave, and still exactly where it fell.
A collapsed sea cave forming a natural pool — swimming banned since 2019 — with over 3,000 ancient inscriptions on its walls.
In Puglia the presents came on the night of 5 December, not at Christmas.
Pietra leccese is soft enough to carve like wood and hardens in the air. That is why the city looks like this.
A form of Greek that evolved in isolation for two thousand years. UNESCO lists it as endangered.
