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Apulia Region
Puglia region
Region of southern Italy, bordering on the Adriatic and Ionian seas
The land is prevalently flat. Apulia is Italy's least mountainous
region, and the most easterly.
The battle dates back to the year 216 b.C., when the Carthaginians, led by
Annibale, defeated the Romans, thereby taking over southern Italy. Canne della
Battaglia, a locality in the vicinity of the river Ofanto, southwest of
Barretta, has over the centuries been the scene of a long series of events,
from the Neolithic to the Medieval age. In support of this affirmation are the
many remains and findings still visible today in the archeological area of
Canne, where fragments of various periods are inevitably mixed together:
columns walls and stone memorials from the Roman period, a castle likely of
Norman origin, and basilicas with tombs dating back to the Paleochristian
period.
Sights:
Puglia is a truly fascinating region in every sense, in
traditions, taste and spirituality, worth visiting all its nature, history,
year round.
Those looking for a holiday providing a blazing hot sun and unspoiled
beaches are faced with an embarrassment of riches in Apulia as they can opt
for the "Pearls of the Gargano", in Vieste and Peschici; the "Gem of Salento"
in Gallipoli; Santa Maria di Leuca, where the Ionian and Adriatic seas come
together; Otranto or the Tremiti Islands "
Nature is the dominant player, both at the Grotte di Castellana (Bari), the
site of a marvellous subterranean world marked by stalactites and stalagmites,
and at the safari zoo at Fasano (Brindisi), Italy's largest animal park, where
the giraffes, monkeys, zebras, tigers and lions live and roam around in
absolute freedom.
For a full immersion in tradition, on the other hand, Alberobello is a must
stop, the home of the "trulli" (ancient stone dwellings with characteristic
conical roofs, rigorously built by hand and without the aid of cement);
whereas the area of Salento is the capital of the "taranta" and "pizzica",
(dances whose rhythm articulates the "purification,, rite after a tarantula bite.
For the more devote, an inevitable stop is at san Giovanni Rotondo (Foggia),
for a visit to the locality of San Pio da Pietralcina: with the convent of the
capuchin friars of Santa Maria delle Grazie and the new church.
Food and drink
"Troccoli", "strascinati", "mignuicchie", "chiancarelle", "fenescecchie" and "pestaluzze",
The shapes and inflections of hornemade pasta are endless, produced with both
hard and soft wheat flours, Of all these shapes, however, the regional crown
undoubtedly goes, in conbination with exquisite broccoli shoots, to the
mythical "orecchietta" pasta, so-called for its rounded form so simiral to that of an
ear.
Among other local specialities: "gnemeridde" (lanb entrails cut up ínto strips
and spun into a spoor) and "hare with capers", as well as a myriad of seafood
dishes, featuring mussels oysters, lobster from the Tremiti, sea-urchins
(among the very best in the Mediterranean), and fish dishes including
amber-fish, mullet, sea-bass and angler-fish.
Still more excellencies include: prosciutti and dairy products from Faeto,
"Lanpascioni" (tiny bitter tasting wild onions), "cardoncelli" and "paparuli"
mushrooms (with their peppery fragrance) . Not to mention the bread of
Altamura, the focacce and "taralli" cookies in white wine.
Finally, among desserts, the "cauciuni" (dough pouches with a chickpea,
chocolate, candied fruit and cooked wine fillinq), "gelato caldo" (ice cream,
candied and dried fruit inserted between two slices of genoise cake and
quickly passed in a hot oven) and carteddate (sweets made with a flaky pastry dough favored with honey and cinnamon).
In the heart of Alberobello, a delightful town in theprovince of Bari, is the most unusual sort of lodging. A strange stone construction with a circular base, on which rests a conocal shaped cupola. These unique dwellings, both in their shape and size, appear to be shrouded in a veil of mystery for their symbols (both sacred and pagan) drawn on the rooftops with the intent, it is said, of driving away the evil eye and bringing in good fortune to those who enter.
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