SALENTO-MATERA, A VIBRANT CULTURAL BRIDGE BETWEEN PUGLIA AND BASILICATA

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6 days (5 nights)
Italy

  1. 1Day 1 Milano / Bari / Lecce

    Meals included: dinner

    Meeting at Bari airport. Arriving and loading your luggage onto the private bus and free time for lunch. In the afternoon guided visit of the city passing by San Sabino cathedral and the Basilica of San Nicola in the ancient part of Bari. These churches are among the most representative examples of apulian romanic art. Moving to Lecce and check-in at the hotel, accommodation in rooms, dinner and overnight is planned.

  2. 2Day 2 Lecce

    Meals included: breakfast, lunch and dinner

    After a breakfast in the hotel, meeting the guide and visit the city of Lecce, the baroque one par excellence. Its historic center is full of architectural beauties and monuments such as Sant’Oronzo church, Santa Croce church, the Amphitheatre and the Roman Theatre. Lunch at restaurant is planned during visits. Return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

  3. 3Day 3 Galatina / Gallipoli / Lecce

    Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner

    After a breakfast in the hotel, visiting Galatina and Gallipoli. Galatina is an important site of Salento peninsula because is full of churches: among them is the beautiful Basilica of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria, which was declared national heritage site in 1870. Then visit Gallipoli, whose name had been forced by colonists and comes from the greek “Kalé pòlis” that in Italian means “beautiful city”. At the end of the trip, return to the hotel, have dinner and overnight.

  4. 4Day 4 Acaya Castle / Otranto

    Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner

    After a breakfast in the hotel, moving to Acaya Castle and visit this sixteenth-century fortress built by the military architect Gian Giacomo from Acaya, son of Alfonso who planned the most ancient part of the Castle. Then moving to Otranto, called “Door to the East” because of its position in the eastern part of Italy. There, visiting the Cathedral with a priceless paving mosaic and the Aragona Castle with its towers, bastions and walls. Lunch at restaurant is planned during visits. Return to the hotel, have dinner and overnight

  5. 5Day 5 Matera

    Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner

    After a breakfast in the hotel, moving to Matera, the “City of Culture” in 2019. Meeting with the guide and visit the most unique city center in the world: a belvedere on the Barisano stone, the Cathedral, the numerous places dug into the tuff that once were farmer houses and currently workshops for terracotta manufacturing. Lunch at restaurant is planned during visits. Return to the hotel, have dinner and overnight.

  6. 6Day 6 Lecce / Bari

    Meals included: breakfast

    After a breakfast in the hotel, loading your luggage onto the private bus and moving to Bari.

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