The Caribbean of Italy, Puglia, the land of the olives, is a place where time appears to slow down and beauty is laid in layers, starting with the glitter of the olive trees in the infinite blue skies, and passing on to the whitewashed villages on the hills, which borders on the region’s two seas. …
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, …