Transfer from the airport to the hotel.

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Beauty Beach Villa

This morning you will meet your personal driver to reach Alberobello. On the way you will take a guided tour of Alberobello, the UNESCO World Heritage Site, you will get to see a concentration of over 1,000 Trulli houses. After lunch, you will stop in Locorotondo where you will meet your personal guide. Locorotondo is one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, in the heart of Valle d’Itria. Its name reveals the round shape of the old town, made of small, sloping-roof houses called “Cummerse”. Locorotondo is the most beautiful balcony of the Murgia dei Trulli and from its “belvedere”, you can admire an extraordinary territory rich in vineyards, dry-stone walls, Mediterranean woods, olive tree groves, farms, and so many trulloes. Your walking tour begins from Piazza Vittorio Emanuele then head to the Palazzo Morelli, a wonderful example of Baroque architecture.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Beauty Beach Villa

This morning, your personal driver will eascort you to Monopoli and Polignano a Mare to enjoy a guided visit. This small town is built on the edge of a craggy ravine pockmarked with caves. The town is thought to be one of the most important ancient settlements in Puglia and was later inhabited by successive invaders ranging from the Huns to the Normans.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Beauty Beach Villa

You will reach a Masseria, in the Valle d’Itria, heart of Puglia surrounded by trulli and ancient olive trees, where you will meet your chef to learn how prepare some local dishes. You will prepare with your hands “orecchiette pugliese” and taste it! After the lesson and food preparation, you will taste the recipes prepared during the cooking class, all accompanied by an excellent local wine.

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Beauty Beach Villa

Private transfer from Fasano to Matera. Today you will discover the ancient white art of Matera, the typical bread. An experience in one of the city's historic ovens, to discover Matera's bread and traditional baked goods. Smell, hearing, sight and touch will be activated by the colors, sounds and scents. A laboratory where you will learn about the history of Matera through bread and the expert will reveal the secret of its recipe. It will be an opportunity to literally put your hands in the dough in a real traditional and modern bakery at the same time. You will discover how in Matera tradition and innovation have mixed together in the art of baking. Today you will reach Matera. After checking in at the hotel, you will enjoy a visit of the city. Matera, Basilicata's jewel, may be the world's third-longest continuously inhabited human settlement. Natural caves in the tufa limestone, exposed as the Gravina cut its gorge, attracted the first inhabitants perhaps 7000 years ago. More elaborate structures were built atop them. Today, looking across the gorge to Matera’s huddled sassi (cave dwellings) it seems you've been transported back to the ancient Holy Land. In 1993 the town was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for being "the most outstanding, intact example of a troglodyte settlement in the Mediterranean region, perfectly adapted to its terrain and ecosystem".

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Aquatio Cave Luxury Hotel & Spa

Private transfer from Matera to Lecce with a stop in Grottaglie. This early morning, before leaving Matera, you will enjoy a hot air balloon ride ( Grouped or Private ). You will fly above the rocks of Matera at the early hours of the morning. Enjoy a unique experience in the uncharted sky of Southern Italy. A rare gem, a city within a city, a cross-sectional landscape, a tangle of houses, crypts and places of worship dug into the rock. This is Matera, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993, and the 2019 European Capital of Culture. See the city from above on a hot air balloon ride that will leave you breathless. During your 1-hour flight, you will sail at heights varying from 500 feet to 3000 feet, depending on the wind of that day. Upon landing, toast your experience with Apulian typical products and light breakfast. Flight routes and taking off locations are subject to flying conditions

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Suite Hotel Santa Chiara

Today you will enjoy a walking guided tour of Lecce. Also called “The Florence of Southern Italy”, Lecce is the city of Baroque churches and old palaces located among small alleys surrounded by the three old entrances: Porta Rudiae, Porta San Biagio and Porta Napoli. Visit the magnificent cathedral with its 70 meters high campanile, the Basilica of Santa Croce (the best example of Baroque style in Italy), Piazza Sant’Oronzo where the Via Appia ends and the Roman amphitheater.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Suite Hotel Santa Chiara

Galatina has a very rich historical and cultural heritage that winds among churches with undisputed charm, some of which still today remain unique jewels at national and international level, such as the Basilica of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria: one of the most characteristic churches of southern Italy, both for its architecture and for its frescoes, consists of a rare mixture of different elements of the Romanesque and Gothic style. The city also has a historical center that from the heart of Galatina opens its streets of basolato towards squares, courtyards and palaces that tell the story of an active Salento, where the activities of the peasants were intertwined with the lives of noblewomen and noblemen. A must for anyone in Galatina is a visit to the oldest pastry shop in the city, the same pastry shop where the famous "Pasticciotto" was born in 1740 and where still today they are produced with the same ancient recipe. Be sure to try some “Pasticciotto Galatinese”! Enjoy a visit of Gallipoli. The city welcomes every visitor with the sculptures of Biblide, Dirce and Salmace scratched in the Greek fountain at the entrance of the old town. It connects to the mainland through a 20th century arch bridge. The walls, the ramparts and the towers, which once protected the city from invaders, today shelter it from the storms, giving it an old-time charm. At the end of the visit, you will have an apéritif by the sea, in a café like in a postcard with the typical warm colors of the Mediterranean and surrounded by the intense blue of the Ionian Sea.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Suite Hotel Santa Chiara

Your private driver will take you to reach Otranto, a charming seaside town known as the jewel of Salento. Otranto is Italy’s most eastern city, which old town was named “Sito messaggero di pace”by UNESCO. Enjoy a walking guided tour of the labyrinthine streets of the mosaics in the world. After wandering around the city, you will enjoy a lunch with a fantastic sea view. (Lunch not included). In the afternoon, you will enjoy a breathtaking trekking along a path surrounded by unspoiled nature, a site of immense archaeological importance. The route will start from Porto Badisco, from the square we will go down to the bay where we will discover the magnificent beach with the source of fresh water that flows into the sea. You will walk from here on the Path of the Fossil Lagoon, to discover the petrified coral reef, we will continue with an exciting Trekking going up inside the Canyon of Porto Badisco. Then explore some karst caves until we reach Sant’Emiliano. You will have the opportunity to take a bath in the sea.

Guide: Included for the day

Meals: Breakfast

Accommodation:

• High-end Accommodation: Suite Hotel Santa Chiara

It is time to say goodbye to Puglia. Today your private driver will take you to the airport to take the flight back home.

Meals: Breakfast