Mysteries of the Mezzogiorno

About

From the towering mountains of the Abruzzo - perhaps Italy’s last frontier with it’s inaccessible hilltowns and forests still providing refuge to wolves and bears, to the flatlands of Puglia with thousand year old olive trees and magical clusters of the strange conical houses known as ‘trulli’, through the fascinating area of Matera known as the ‘sassi’ where the population lived in caves

At a glance

• Typical visit: about 3 hours