Over the sun-scorched plains and rocky shores of Puglia, castles lord it over, silent yet expressive monuments to centuries of empires, crusades, and cultural interaction. The glittering shores of the Adriatic, the windswept hills of the Murge, there is no fortress that doesn’t have at least one interesting story. These are not merely defensive works, …
The Dolomites are a scenery of opposites, towers of jagged limestone soaring out of smooth alpine meadows, lakes of turquoise lurking in trees, and expansive plateaus where the silence is over miles. Hiking here does not just mean any trail it is also an adventure into Ladin culture and mountain folklore as well as one …