Puglia travel & food magazine
What is worth taking home from Puglia, and what is not: olive oil, taralli, pasta, preserves, wine, the pumo and Grottaglie ceramics, chosen by how you travel and who the present is for — plus the rule on cheese and cured meat if you fly back to Great Britain.
From 25 to 27 September 2026 the Red Bull Cliff Diving returns to Polignano a Mare for the thirteenth time: dives from 21 and 27 metres above Lama Monachile, in the last European round of the season. Dates, where to watch and how to get there.
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.
The September 2026 calendar in the Salento: village sagre, patron saints’ feasts and the oldest wine festival in Italy, each one marked with whether the date is confirmed. Plus where to swim once the beaches empty out.
Bari at 2,070 euros a square metre, Taranto at 931, Lecce climbing 7.8% while the region moves 0.8%. And on the other side, the Apulian towns selling houses for one euro.
What a sagra is, what you eat, what it costs – and how to tell whether the date you found online is this year’s or last year’s. Plus what is on in Puglia in September 2026, with the confirmation status marked.
The sea is at its warmest in September, prices fall by about 30%, and the towns go back to their own life.
Apulian food is vegetable-first, bread-obsessed and built on olive oil. Order the way people do here and the antipasti alone will be a meal.
In Puglia the Assumption is not one day but three. The procession that arrives by sea at Monopoli, the dawn concert at Ostuni, the village feasts, and the golden rule for the beaches.
Seven areas, one calendar. From the Negramaro in Lecce and Bari to the Concertone of the Notte della Taranta and the 20th Mediterranean Games at Taranto, week by week.
