Tourism Tattler Issue 2 of 2018

A southern region forming the heel of Italy’s
“boot,” Puglia is known for its distinctive
“trulli” conical roofstone huts.
Tourism Tattler correspondent
Adam Jacot de Boinod
explored the region.
The paradise of providence. That’s how I felt about Puglia in Spring. So fertile for its dry, hot
climate. So uplifting with its masseria, the whitewashed farmhouses with their singular but
solid shapes and spacious courtyards.
I first stayed at Masseria Le Carrube – the passionate project and personal philosophy of
Valentina De Luca and her cousin. Four years ago it was a run-down farmhouse but now
there are 19 guest rooms, a dining room featuring an olive press which once was pulled in a
circle by a horse and the ‘sala mangiatoia’, the room where horses were once fed, complete
with its original trough. All very life-enhancing and sensually stimulating.
A stay of five days in Puglia was long enough for me to visit many of the local attractions and
historic towns. On reaching Ostuni, ‘the white city’, from the west her citadel has a dramatic
precipice straight down from its whitewashed walls. The town is typical of the Mediterranean
with gesticular, animated spirits clapping hands and waving arms; laundry hanging out over
the streets and narrow ancient passageways.
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Issue 2 of 2018