6 days tour

Puglia Culinary Safari - A Food & Wine Tasting Vacation

Puglia Culinary Safari - A Food & Wine Tasting Vacation

This tour includes:

Meals

all lunch

Guide

100% italian & 100% LOCAL guides Day time guided service guide is provided during the day to make sure all activities run smoothly. We donโ€™t just leave in italy or speak italian , we grew up in the villages we now discole to our clients and have walked and cycled every inch of this region, slept and eit inn each place is worth it trying and it is futured on our trips. We make our own olive oil, we are sommelier and food ad wine expert. + VAN support

Accommodation

6 nights accommodation & breakfast at luxury 4* hotels

Others

all lunch all trannsfer as per itinerary day time guide service Private winery tour and tasting Private mozzarella annd burrata making workshop Private extra virgi olive oil tour at local producers 1 Private hands on cooking class Private tour of Alberobello and MATERA Private food & wine tour of Lecce old town We are a OWNER OPERATED LOCAL company specialized in PRIVATE holidays operated directly by the people that have conceived, designed, developed and tested your vacation in Italy, If you are looking for creative trip planners and trusted travel advisors , born and bred between Sicily, Napoli and remote villages of Puglia, obsessed with authentic food, with a weakness for expensive Italian road bikes, that when are not cycling, cooking, or planning the next experience, are producing their own extra virgin olive oil in deep southern Puglia, listening to souljazzfunk, you are in the right place. WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT ? MADEinITALY exclusive trips handcrafted with love in southern Italy, and a support that saves you a whole slew of headaches, satisfying your needs and improving the overall quality of your vacation while experiencing authentic Italy and the local life; a real insight view and unique opportunities, to get under the sking of the country, experiences not available to the large groups and to the big companies; tours designed to suite, and developed for individual minded travellers and very small private groups; We DO NOT OUTSOURCE your trip and DO NOT pay other to do the job We design run and operate all tours. HOW DO YOU COMPETE WITH THE BIG GUYS? by offering LOCAL expertise. more quality, value for money, flexibility & creativity to craft sophisticated holidays; we do not outsource the running of your trip and we donโ€™t pay others to do the job; WHO TRAVEL WITH US? top travel luxury companies individual minded travelers; families seeking personalized service; groups of friends desirous of more authentic experiences;

Not included:

Optional

Flights

Others

Personal expenses city stay taxes airport pick up & drop off tips for guides, hotel and porters everything not included within inclusion list

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Itinerary of your trip Puglia Culinary Safari - A Food & Wine Tasting Vacation

  • Day 1 Day 1: Lecce: Food & Winne Tour Of Lecce Old Town
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 1: Lecce: Food & Winne Tour Of Lecce Old Town

      Check in at your hotel in the heart of the historic town, meet you guide and start to learn about the week ahead while discovering Lecce throught a guided food and wine walking tour of the old town. A friendly yet informative walking diner to unveil Lecceโ€™s history, products and culinary traditions, a leisure stroll between local delights and baroque extravaganzawith your local friends.

  • Day 2 Day 2: Lecce: Hands On Cooking Class With The Locals...Away From The Tourist Crowds
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 2: Lecce: Hands On Cooking Class With The Locals...Away From The Tourist Crowds

      Immerse yourself into the culinary tradition with an hands on cooking class, not held at a school for tourist, but hosted in our private house immersed in an acre of olive groves and typical fruit of Salento. Shop at the local market, harvest with the peaseants from village veg garden and visit the local stone oven for the best bread. Learn more about the local recipes and understand why the "Cucina povera" is now the base of the "Dieta Mediterranea" . Learn how to make the famous "orecchiette" ear shaped pasta together with other type of fresh pasta. Make the dressing and the second course together with traditional dessert. In the afternoon rest by the pool and dine at leisure at one of the many suggested restaurants.


  • Day 3 Day 3: Lecce: Otranto & Gallipoli A Coast To Coast Discovery
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 3: Lecce: Otranto & Gallipoli A Coast To Coast Discovery

      your culinary tour of Puglia continues withy a day trip to the fishing town of Gallipoli for a visit of its amazing fish market and old town. Gallipoli is located by the Ionian Sea, on the west coast of the Salentina Peninsula. The town is divided into two parts, the modern and the old city located on a limestone island, linked to the mainland by a bridge built in the 16th century. Of great interest in Gallipoli are the Cattedrale di Santโ€™ Agata along via Antonietta de Pace, together with the Church of Santa Maria della Puritaโ€™ (1661). The richly decorated interior houses, at the marble high altar, a canvas by Luca Giordano. Not to be missed also the imposing Angevine-Aragonese Castle, built in the 13th century by the Byzantines, largely remade under the Angevines and the Aragonese, who added a polygonal wall fortified with round towers.

      According to a legend, the city was founded in ancient times by Idomeneus of Crete, while Pliny the Elder attributes the foundation to the Senones Gauls, but more likely, it was a Messapic settlement. Lunch is booked at local farm a formet ROMAN post office were horse-drawn mail carts were ensuring a "letter perfect" service in the second century Roman Empire. En route to Otranto stop at local pasta factory to learnn more about the local traditon of making pasta using only "grani antichi" old varieties of local wheat . Strolll Otranto old town and admire its cathedral and floor mosaic and die at local suggested restaurant overlooking the azurre sea.

  • Day 4 Day 4: Ostuni: & The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Producers
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 4: Ostuni: & The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Producers

      Contiue exploring as we travel from the Salento to the Itria Valley to visit a local farm specialized in the production of the finest extravirgine olive oil. Visit uncient underground olive mill and walk olive groves with trees more than 2000 years old for a complete introduction to the olive oil production from the romans to the modern days. Enjoy lunch in Ostuni and get lost in the inccredible maze of alleys of the "White town" before movig to your next hotel a beaufil farm house, your home for the ext 2 days. 

      Lunch in Ostuni at our favorite trattoria and enjoy a digestive walk through its amazing maze of alleys.

      In the evening explore Monnopoli old town and dine at leisure.

      Meals: B, L Activitie: olive oil tour + Mozzarella demo Overight: Monopoli

  • Day 5 Day 5: Monopoli: Mozzarella Master & The Trulli From The Outer Space...
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 5: Monopoli: Mozzarella Master & The Trulli From The Outer Space...

      Travel the Itria Valley dotted with vineyards and almond orchards continue with a stop to the Unesco site of ALBEROBELLO for a guided tour of the trulli monumental area. The Rione Monti and Aiai Piccola host over 1000 traditional trulli houses, making of Alberobello the most unique and fascinating town of the Itria Valley. Lunch will be at local cheese maker were you can test your skill in making Mozzarella while enjoying a pic nic lunch based on the freshest ricotta cheese and "Burrata cheese" you have ever tasted.


  • Day 6 Day 6: Matera: The Wines, The Bread & The Stones
    • 12:00 am - 11:59 pm

      Day 6: Matera: The Wines, The Bread & The Stones

      Sharp your knowledg on the winnes of Puglia and meet the real people behind the finest Primitivo and negroamaro wine.

      Stroll the charming Polignano a Mare, enjpy lunch overlooking the azurre sea and transfer to Matera, the town of stones for more food discovery in the old Sassi district.

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Experience Style

Experience Style

Mixed

There will be challenging activities such as hiking, biking, canyoning and trekking, but youโ€™re also going to have other means of transportation and relaxed moments to just chill.

Accomodation level

Accomodation level

Medium

This accommodation includes essential services like a hot shower, electricity, and a nice and comfy bed.

Experience Type

Experience Type

Small Group

Youโ€™ll be accompanied by a small group of travelers just like you.

Physical Rating

Physical Rating

Basic

Almost everyone is fit for these activities. Every hike or physical exercise last less than 30 minutes, such as paragliding and horseback riding. Please ask about specific conditions.

Age range

Age range

Min: 12 / Max: 85

Age range allowed for this experience.

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