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Wonders of Apulia and Matera
Price per person from 2.663 €

Wonders of Apulia and Matera

price starting from
2.663 €
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price starting from
2.663 €
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Description

Eight days in Bari, Lecce and Matera to connect with art, unspoilt landscapes and millenary traditions: a complete immersion in beauty.

Overnight stays in 4-star hotels or in typical country farmhouses amidst architectural masterpieces and locations chosen for international film sets.

A journey that from Bari turns south, the Itria Valley, the trulli, the grottoes of Castellana and then the Salento with Ostuni and Lecce, until returning to its origins with the stone Sassi of Matera.

Discoveries and wonders at every turn. Bari is like a mermaid: it has an entrepreneurial body and a beauty that lives off the sea.

The avenues facing the seafront are the driving force behind an astonishing tourist revival, the small streets of the old city, dense and narrow like an Arab souk, reflect the Mediterranean heart of this industrious city, often called 'the Milan of the South'.

The Itria Valley is the latest fashionable destination for top-end tourism, much loved by Hollywood stars.

Yet the beauty of this stretch of Apulia is very ancient: along thirty kilometres there are towns, each one more evocative than the next, such as Alberobello, Locorotondo, Cisternino, Martina Franca and Ostuni.

The landscape reveals expanses of olive trees that colour the rocky sides of the valleys with green, alternating with the neat rows of vineyards that make it possible to bottle robust red wines or delicate rosés.

Stretching between the Adriatic and Ionian seas, the Salento is a peninsula shaped by wind and white light.

A paradise of crystal-clear waters, caves to explore and sun-drenched shores.

An open-air museum with baroque churches and palaces, watchtowers and the ancient cities of Magna Graecia. 

Finally, Matera is the timeless city, suspended in a dimension that has preserved it from the onslaught of modernity.

It is the spectacle of the Sassi, the quarters inhabited for millennia where everything is carved out of stone: the dwellings, the stables, the craftsmen's workshops.

At every stage, a journey into absolute beauty, without forgetting the tastes and products of the territory such as the unrivalled extra virgin olive oil, the emblematic bread, the red and rosé wines, which combine robustness with refined aromas in a land where hospitality is a religion.

Visiting

Guide languages

English
Italiano
Nederlands
Day 1: Bari, Bari (Province)
Day 2: Bari (Province), Alberobello, Locorotondo, Martina Franca, Bari (Province)
Day 3: Bari (Province)
Day 4: Bari (Province), Altamura, Lecce
Day 5: Lecce, Ostuni, Apulia, Lecce
Day 6: Lecce, Matera
Day 7: Matera
Day 8: Matera, Bari

DAY 1

  • Car rental pick-up from Bari airport. Rental car for the duration of the tour, from day 1 to day 8 inclusive (basic rental).
  • Overnight stay in a 4-star hotel/masseria in the Bari countryside, in a double room


DAY 2

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Rental car

Experience: Bike tour in Itria Valley amid nature and taste (unguided tour)

  • Bicycle
  • Map with route to follow
  • Visit to an underground oil mill and extra virgin olive oil tasting
  • Liability insurance
  • Overnight stay in a 4-star hotel/masseria in the Bari countryside, in a double room


DAY 3

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Rental car

Experience: Apulia's wonders amid art and taste

  • Licensed guide in Italian, English or German
  • Pick-up and drop-off at hotel if located within 40km of Castellana Caves
  • Castellana Caves Entry Ticket
  • Tasting of typical products
  • Visit inside a Trullo
  • Liability insurance
  • Overnight stay in a 4-star hotel/masseria in the Bari countryside, in a double room


DAY 4

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Rental car

Experience: A lesson in bread and focaccia between tradition and taste

  • Expert baker and assistant in Italian, English or German
  • Bread making course
  • Tasting
  • Liability insurance
  • Overnight stay in a 4-starhotel in the centre of Lecce, in a double room


DAY 5

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Rental car

Experience: Tour of Lecce and Ostuni amid history and taste

  • Licensed guide in Italian, English or German
  • Pick-up and drop-off at hotel if located within 40km of Lecce
  • Extra virgin olive oil specialist
  • Tasting of typical local products
  • Liability insurance
  • Assistance
  • Overnight stay in a 4-starhotel in the centre of Lecce, in a double room


DAY 6

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Rental car

Experience: Tour Caveoso in Matera amid history and beauty

  • Private guide in Italian, English or German
  • Entry to Rock Church and Cave House 
  • Tasting of typical products
  • Overnight stay in a 4-star hotel/masseria in the Matera countryside, in a double room


DAY 7

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Rental car

Experience: In the Murgia Materana Park amid nature and history

  • Licensed private guide in Italian, English or German
  • Return shuttle to the park
  • Overnight stay in a 4-star hotel/masseria in the Matera countryside, in a double room


DAY 8

  • Breakfast at the hotel
  • Rental car to drop-off at Bari airport


Extra notes: the rental car is a basic car, for 2 persons. Any extras (higher category cars, mileage, fuel, various insurances, extra driver) must be paid directly at the time of rental

  • Anything not specified in the 'Included' section
  • Tips
  • Meals except where expressly provided for in the programme
  • Drinks
  • Tourist tax for the hotel
  • Medical and luggage insurance
  • Any personal extras 

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