Here is Gareth Huw Davies's must-see-and-do list in this tucked-away region... Puglia (Apulia in Italian) is a land of vivid colours and rustic charm - all low hills and broad red plains smothered ...

See pugliaandculture.com While most of Puglia subsisted in a state of scraping poverty, Lecce took the high road. A major settlement since Roman times, the soft, honey-coloured Lecce limestone ...

From southern Sicily to Puglia, Italy is full of villages and small towns where Baroque art has left a spectacular mark. Here is a must-see selection of historic villages for lovers of ...

Old Italian traditions die hard in Puglia, a region scattered with pre-historic caves, ancient Greco-Roman settlements, Biblical olive groves, medieval forts and theatrical Baroque cities.