Puglia Gastronomy & Wine Tour

Arrival at Bari airport, meet your private driver that will take you to your accommodation in the Fasano area. Free time and welcome dinner in a traditional restaurant.

After breakfast, your driver will take you to a family-owned Salumi factory to learn how the famous capocollo di Martina Franca and other local salumi delicacies are produced. After a light lunch at the factory, you will be driven to a winery near Locorotondo where you will meet the owner that will take you around the vineyards, visit the winery and enjoy local wines in a cozy relaxed atmosphere. Visit Locorotondo at sunset, enjoying its white alleys and a breathtaking sunset over the Itria Valley. Back to your accommodation and dinner on your own. Overnight at your accommodation.

After breakfast, your driver will take you to Conversano to experience a cooking class in a local family-owned Masseria. Enjoy your time at the Masseria, learn how to cook Puglia delicacies and take your time to relax between the millenary olive trees. After lunch at the Masseria, you will be driven to Polignano to enjoy a walk in the pretty narrow streets of the village with its balconies overlooking the sea. Free time to enjoy a gelato, or the “caffè speciale” made only in Polignano a Mare. Back to your accommodation in the evening. Overnight at your accommodation.

After breakfast, your driver will take you to a renowned winery driving around the hills of Valle d’Itria, among olive trees, vineyards and white stone dry walls. Enjoy the visit to the winery and taste its famous award-winning wines and grapes. After lunch, you will be driven to Alberobello, the UNESCO site famous for its truly, white stone huts where people live and have shops. Meet our local guide Francesco that will take you around to visit the town and tell you a lot of secrets and insights about this unique place. After the visit and some photo shooting, your driver will take you to Cisternino, another gem of Itria Valley where you can visit the small old town, have a coffee or an aperitivo enjoying the amazing view of the Itria Valley from its public terrace. Back to your accommodation in the evening.

After breakfast, check-out and your driver will take you to the Ostuni countryside. You will visit a Masseria with an old underground olive press mill where you will taste a selection of different olive oils produced locally. A no to miss experience! Afterward, be driven to Ostuni town, the so-called “white city”. Go exploring Ostuni medieval old town, with alleys and whitewashed houses that unfold in a maze similar to that of a kasbah. Go up to the hill to view the amazing panorama of millinery olive trees and the Adriatic Sea. Your driver will take you to Lecce to check in at your accommodation. Dinner on your own.

After breakfast, spend the day in Lecce, plenty of free time to walk around, exploring the quaint alleys and streets of this Baroque town also known as the “Florence of the South”. Meet your guide to start a “Lecce food tour” to discover all the local food delicacies that the city has to offer and to know the history and secrets of the amazing architecture of Lecce. Back to your accommodation at night and dinner on your own.

Your driver will take you back to Bari to catch your flight back home. On the way to Bari, stop in one of the top wineries in the Salento area to indulge in another unforgettable wine tasting trying the local grapes that made Puglia and Salento famous for its wines.