I’ve just collaborated with local historian and tour guide Michele Miccoli to produce this short film about the history of Ceglie Messapica. The local towns in the Valle d’Itria are babies in comparison to Ceglie Messapica… even Herodotus name checks the white walled town. It is known as ‘città d’arte …
At the beginning of the season I took a drone over, hoping to get views of Ceglie Messapica from the air. But after checking the local regs I decided not to risk it… though I did manage to get airborne over the trullo. If you are wondering about the location …
Mino is well known chef in the region and lives about 20 minutes from Trullo Adagio on the outskirts of a town called Locorotondo. And if you’ve been late getting up today (Saturday) and were eating your cornflakes whilst watching Saturday Kitchen, you will have seen Rick Stein chatting with …
A lot of guests comment on how lovely ‘Ceglie Messapica’ is. And to be honest I’ve quite neglected the town on this website. But I’m about to correct that! With its 14th-century Piazza Vecchia, tattered Baroque balconies, and lordly medieval castles, the little whitewashed town of Ceglie Messapica is a …
Ricci are a pugliese delicacy. Very seasonal, spring is the time when crowds of locals gather around Pescherias on the coast. I met a friend further south near Galipolli called Lido Conchilie. Sunday lunch… and it was absolutely heaving. We qued for well over half an hour to grab a …
The full article can be found here Go to southern Puglia and use one of the rich variety of towns as a base to make easy trips to the others. See Alberobello in the early evening when the crowds have left, visiting the region’s famous, distinctive cone-roofed trulli in …