Excursions

Spreading the oenological culture, telling its millenary and fascinating history, providing tourists with a warm welcome, typical of these latitudes. These are some of the objectives we constantly achieve by promoting wine routes, guaranteeing tourists and visitors from all over the world an experience of growing their knowledge on the subject, without ever neglecting the playful aspect. Short courses, insights and tastings for novices and finest palates. The itineraries are numerous and cover the entire region. Prices vary according to the chosen cellars and the type of experience.

From the Gargano to the Salento the olive tree, with its silvery foliage, accompanies the eye in every corner of Puglia. Young or millennia, thin or bent by the wind, this is the symbol of the region, which boasts a patrimony of 60 million olive trees, as many as the inhabitants of the entire nation. A real museum under the sky. It is a heritage that for thousands of years has marked the productive life of the region, thanks to its ancient origins evidenced by the fossil traces of spontaneous olive trees found on the territory and which still survive with 13 native cultivars of the region, among which the most renowned are the Cima di Bitonto and Mola, Coratina, Ogliarola, Cellina and Peranzana. And, like wine, extra-virgin olive oil is the witness of a thousand-year-old culture that binds the Pugliese close to its land, to be discovered at the table, visiting museums and companies, and in the many underground oil mills. The itineraries are numerous and cover the entire region. Prices vary according to the chosen cellars and the type of experience. In some periods of the year such as autumn it is possible to take part in the olive harvest and follow the whole production chain, led by experts who will provide practical lessons to combine with food and dishes of the different qualities of Evo.

Matera is also known as the city of the Sassi, because of the uniqueness and uniqueness of its historic center. Excavated and built near the Gravina di Matera, a deep gorge that divides the territory into two, the Sassi of Matera, the districts that make up the ancient part of the city, lie in two little valleys, looking to the east, slightly subdued compared to the surrounding territories, separated from each other by the rocky spur of the Civita.

The Sassi of Matera are an urban settlement deriving from the various forms of civilization and anthropization that have occurred over time. From the prehistoric ones of the entrenched villages of the Neolithic period, to the habitat of the rock civilization (IX-XI century), which constitutes the urban substratum of the Sassi, with its neighborhoods, walkways, canalizations, cisterns; from the civitas of Norman-Swabian matrix (XI-XIII century), with its fortifications, to the subsequent Renaissance expansions (XV-XVI century) and Baroque urban settlements (XVII-XVIII century); and finally from the social and sanitary degradation of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century to the displacement laid out by national law in the fifties, up to the current recovery started from the 1986 law.

Lecce preserves in its rich architectural heritage numerous churches, renowned for their Baroque style, so much so that the city has been called The Capital of the Baroque or the Florence of the South. The churches of maximum splendor are all located in the Historical Center. An artistic and cultural itinerary between the baroque churches of Lecce and its most important palaces.

The Beautiful City, that kale polis of the Greeks that opens to the sea in which it is set and to which it owes its history, is a city that welcomes and defends at the same time, is the port that from its bay has seen loads of oil that have illuminated the great European capitals, is the island that gave shelter and protection to those fleeing the raids on the mainland, is the proud city that has flanked Taranto and has opposed the Roman legions. Gallipoli has the smell of the sea and those who visit it can not ignore this symbiosis.

Castel del Monte has an exceptional universal value for the perfection of its forms, the harmony and the fusion of cultural elements from Northern Europe, the Muslim world and classical antiquity. It is a unique masterpiece of medieval architecture, which reflects the humanism of its founder: Frederick II of Swabia. With this motivation, in 1996, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Mérida (Mexico), included the castle, built by Frederick II of Swabia around 1240, in the World Heritage List.

So much history immersed in a blue sea that has two coastlines divided by a port that was the point of departure and arrival of many trades with the Holy Land. On one side the western shore and on the other the eastern shore. Barletta also owes a lot to its sea and its beaches of fine sand that are well suited to attracting many families in the summer months.

A guided tour that will offer you the opportunity to visit and learn about the main points of historical and cultural interest of the ancient village and to come into contact with the local food and wine tradition. A route along the streets of Bari Vecchia admiring the best of medieval architecture and above all having the opportunity to observe the most important fortifications of the old city, along the seafront overlooking the Adriatic and then entering the streets of the ancient village to reach symbolic places such as the Basilica of San Nicola and the Castello Svevo.

Guided walking tour in the historic center and ancient oven with bread and focaccia tasting. The city of Altamura has many peculiarities that make it known and a destination for visitors. It is known above all for its archaeological heritage and for the architectural beauties of its historic center.