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 neophytes 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 territories surrounding, 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 successive 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.

La Città Bella, that kalè 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 disregard this symbiosis.

Castel del Monte possiede un valore universale eccezionale per la perfezione delle sue forme, l’armonia e la fusione di elementi culturali venuti dal Nord dell’Europa, dal mondo Musulmano e dall’antichità classica. È un capolavoro unico dell’architettura medievale, che riflette l’umanesimo del suo fondatore: Federico II di Svevia. Con questa motivazione, nel 1996, il Comitato del Patrimonio Mondiale UNESCO riunito a Mérida (Messico), ha inserito nella World Heritage List il castello, fatto realizzare da Federico II di Svevia intorno al 1240.

Tanta storia immersa in un mare blu che conta due litorali divisi da un porto che fu punto di partenza e arrivo di molti traffici con la Terra santa. Da una parte la riva di Ponente e dall’altra quella di Levante. Barletta deve tanto anche al suo mare e alle sue spiagge di sabbia finissima che ben si prestano ad attrarre moltissime famiglie nei periodi estivi.

Un tour guidato che vi offrirà l’opportunità di visitare e conoscere i principali punti d’interesse storico-culturale del borgo antico e di venire in contatto con la tradizione enogastronomica locale. Un percorso lungo le strade di Bari Vecchia ammirando il meglio dell’architettura medievale e soprattutto avere la possibilità di osservare le fortificazioni più importanti della città vecchia, costeggiando il lungomare affacciato sull’Adriatico per poi addentrarsi tra le stradine del borgo antico per raggiungere i luoghi simbolo quali la Basilica di San Nicola e il Castello Svevo.

Visita guidata a piedi nel centro storico e forno antico con degustazione pane e focaccia. La città di Altamura ha molte peculiarità che la rendono conosciuta e meta di visitatori. È nota soprattutto per il suo patrimonio archeologico e per le bellezze architettoniche del suo centro storico.