Top Puglia Arts & Design

Pair a walking tour of Bari with a cooking class on this two-in-one, small-group tour. With a guide, you’ll make your way around the enticing Old Town lanes, discovering landmarks such as the Basilica of St. Nicholas and hearing the city’s history. After a visit to the city’s waterfront, you’ll visit the home of a Bari resident to make fresh pasta and enjoy it alongside local wine.

See the highlights of Bari on a rickshaw driven by a local guide. Visit the Basilica of Saint Nicholas, Bari Cathedral, Swabian Castle, the Fish Market, and other notable landmarks. Navigate the narrow streets of the old town and discover local history and culture. The tour concludes with a tasting of homemade Italian gelato.

WITH THIS TOUR YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THE BEST OF PUGLIA IN A SINGLE TOUR. THE GUIDE THAT WILL ACCOMPANY YOU 'SPIEGHERA AND WILL TAKE YOU TO TRY ALSO THE TRADITIONS OF THE VISITED PLACES.

Explore Puglia's gems—including Lecce and Gallipoli—on this full-day tour with wine tastings. See ancient architecture in Lecce and visit Gallipoli's Old Town, built on an island now connected to the mainland by a bridge. Taste wines such as Primitivo, Negromaro, Sussumaniello, Aglianico and Bombino Bianco at several vineyard stops.

The tour of the medieval village is a unique, cultural and exciting experience. We will let you know the whole history of our beautiful white city.

Our unique tours because in addition to discovering the wonders of Puglia, they give you the opportunity to experience all the experiences that characterize the places you visit, try the most authentic flavors.

The Bari tour is personalized. The customer can decide whether to take a tour with external or internal visits to the monuments. Usually the guide recommends the places not to be missed and ensures that the customer can have a 360 degree view of the city, in the sense that, even at the end of the tour, the customer can always contact the guide again in case he needs further information, for example if you need a restaurant, rather than having directions on other neighboring cities to visit.

See Puglia’s Locorotondo on a walking tour, and discover the highlights of one of Italy’s most pretty villages. Loved for its whitewashed and cone-roofed trulli houses, hilltop Locorotondo is a maze of lanes, and the best way to see it is with a private guide. You’ll enjoy a tour that’s personalized to you, and have the flexibility to see the sights that interest you most.

Alberobello’s UNESCO-listed “trullo” dwellings are among the most unique sights in Puglia, and the Trullo Sovrano is the town’s crown jewel. With this advance ticket, visit the only trullo built on two levels and experience what is was like to live here as you take in the re-created period living area, kitchen, and bedroom. Stand beneath the conical roof that reaches 45 feet (14 meters) and admire the charming architecture.

PlacenPeople.com, the largest local community of organizers in Puglia, presents this new tour "Hunt for Treasures of Bari". A new way to get to know the city: a journey organized in stages, in each of which you can discover a cultural treasure, solving an enigma with the help of the Organizers, and starting with some clues that will be found along the way. You will discover while having fun the cultural treasures of Bari. A "Dan Brown" style adventure, in which the entire path was conceived by PlacenPeople with the collaboration of famous scholars of the history of Puglia, and well-known names, so that everything you will experience is historically founded, and in the end you will know the true soul of this city. Attention: the service provided via Viator or Tripadvisor consists of the search for an organizer available on PlacenPeople.com. Once this research has been carried out, the service is concluded, and does not include physical participation in the tour, for which a specific reservation is required.

PEARLS OF MEMORY. FROM OBJECTS TO GESTURES OF TRADITION it is an interactive exhibition-museum, dedicated to the enhancement of ancient crafts and traditional knowledge. Inside the Sant'Anna di Renna complex, traditional gestures take shape through a wise use of technology, in an attempt to give back to memory and dignity the trades of the past such as the shoemaker, the trullaro and the towing just to name a few . The museum displays antique objects, traditional country and artisan utensils, photographic and audiovisual evidence. Nothing immobile, objects come to life through the most advanced techniques with sounds, videos and rooms that open when the visitor passes by. Not only the sight but also the hearing and the sense of smell become the protagonists thanks to the installation designed to involve and totally envelop the visitor.

Let's visit together the wonderful Art & Nature of Lecce, noticed as the Capital of Baroque. Lecce is a fascinating town that you will always remember for the luxurious private palaces, with their courtyards and gardens, that we will admire inside, as well as for the precious symbols represented on the facade of many of the magnificent churches, that I will describe you. Passing together through its hidden streets, we will explore the labyrinthine old town, feeling the air of "slow life", typical of southern Italy, enjoying the authentic atmosphere of everyday life. We will discover together the amazing collection of sacred art, visiting the most ancient workshops of ceramic and papier-mache. Of course, you could not miss tasting the best local food like "puccia" (local bread with vegetables), or "pasticciotto" (sweet with custards), in one of the most traditional pastry shops in the town that I will suggest to you!

Walking tour of the historic center of Bari, the so-called old Bari. Discover the narrow streets, with its approximately 50 arches and 100 churches. Our guide will take you to know the Cathedral of S. Sabino, the Basilica of S. Nicola, the narrow street of orecchiette, Largo Apricot beating heart of the historic center, the main squares, remains of the Church of Buon Consiglio, the Norman Swabian Aragonese Castle the city walls. At the end of the walking tour, relax with a short musical experience with typical music of our territory, in the company of a local artist who will involve you like no one else can. And as a reward for your collaboration, you will receive a small gadget to remember this day spent together! Why you'll love this travel experience: Taste the traditional life of old Bari Experience the history, art and religious spirit of the city Musical break traditional songs and handcrafted musical gadgets

Troia was the ancient Aece, a Roman city on the Appian-Trajan Way. The tour will take you to know the historic center with a magnificent view on the Dauni mountains and its splendid cathedral. The tour will make you visit the heart of the town with a visit to the church of St. Vincent the Martyr, Basilica of St. Basil and St. Francis in Baroque art and major palaces such as the palace of the princes D'Avalos, Palazzo Varo and Palazzo Siliceo . The tour ends with a visit to the cathedral dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Assumption built in the twelfth century and in the Apulian Romanesque style on a church of Byzantine origins. Certainly the most beautiful part is its rose window composed of 11 stone columns and twenty-two different decorations obtained exclusively with the technique of the fretwork, making the rose appear as a laced embroidery. The most beautiful rose window in Puglia. Also worthy of note is the bronze portal with its 2 wonderful dragon-shaped knockers.

The tour of Mesagne, with a licensed guide, starts from the castle, the most representative monument of the town, with a height of about 20 meters. The original nucleus consisted of a fortified encampment dating back to the eleventh or twelfth century and was then enlarged in the following centuries until it lost its function as a fortified fortress and took over that of a baronial residence. The tour will go on to make known important findings of the Messapian civilization kept in the Museum of the Territory "U. Granafei ". Following will visit the ancient village of the town and the main church dedicated to All Saints, built between 1649 and 1660. The facade is embellished with elegant architectural elements with vaulted stone and majestic colonnade placed in support of the massive roofing. The interiors decorated with fine stucco and a superb high altar, all in marble, contain paintings by local artists