Puglia isn’t just any other region in southern Italy. Puglia is a feeling. It’s the morning light reflecting on gentle waves lapping onto the shore line. The quiet rhythm of hands shaping fresh pasta. The songs that echo through village piazzas during local festivals. If you want to discover Puglia off the beaten path, you’ll discover that the Italian lifestyle is alive in every corner of the region.

Traveling through this corner of southern Italy means slowing down. This is a place where stone farmhouses sit quietly among ancient olive groves, where meals are hour-long affairs, and where strangers quickly become friends over a glass of local wine.