Puglia is with no doubt among the most attractive and wonderous of Italy's famous regions. Stretching for 400 km from north to south, Puglia’s long, narrow peninsula forms the heel of Italy, a diverse and bubbling with history stripe of heaven.
 
For centuries it was a strategic province, colonized, invaded and conquered by just about every major power of the day – from the ancient Greeks through to the Spanish. These days clean seas and reliable sunshine are the draws for holidaymakers both Italian and foreign, and acres of campsite- and-bungalow-type tourist villages stud the shoreline, though there are still quiet spots to be found.
 
Everything the Italophile craves is there in abundance: ancient towns heavy with the tangible past; extravagant churches dreamt up by Europe's finest architects; the footprints of an endless procession of conquerors and cultures, stamped in immaculate stone, gold and marble; seas of olives; olive-green seas; and food the equal of none in Italy.
 
Tourists have been buying trulli – ancient storehouses – and masserie (farm estates) as holiday accommodation. Many farm estates were converted into new top-of-the-range spa hotels, places where you can holiday among olive groves and orchards.
 
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