Puglia

Name: Puglia
Brand: Exodus
Rating: 4.6 (186 reviews)

Puglia Trips

Located in the heel of Italy’s boot, Puglia will surprise you with its picturesque landscape, ancient hilltop towns, emerald waters, and lush farmlands dotted by ancient olive trees and distinctive conical shepherd huts known as ‘trulli’. After a day of walking, sightseeing or cycling, enjoy the legendary regional cuisine that includes outstanding seafood and melt-in-the-mouth burrata cheese.

Highlights of Puglia tours include Matera, an area famous for its cave-and-stone Sassi houses, and Alberobello, where white cone-roofed trulli houses still stand after 500 years – on some of our Puglia holidays you can even stay in them. Strolling through the old narrow streets of Ostuni and Locorotondo will transport you back in time, allowing you to discover Puglia’s distinct identity. The whole region is a food lovers’ paradise and local produce includes durum wheat pasta, vegetables grown just a few steps from the sea, and olives, broad beans and chicory – all used to prepare simple, tasty dishes such as orecchiette pasta served with a sauce of turnip-tops or fresh tomato and sheep’s-milk ricotta cheese.

Puglia Adventure Holidays

8 Days from 2 340 €

Guided Group (Excl. Flights)

Cycle from the UNESCO town of Matera through Italy's heel to Lecce

Cycling

8 Days from 1 855 €

Guided Group (Excl. Flights)

Fairytale trulli houses, picturesque farmland, and quaint villages

Walking & Trekking

8 Days from 2 155 €

Guided Group (Excl. Flights)

Discover Puglia's traditional farmland, coastline and Baroque cities

Culture

8 Days from 1 140 €

Self-Guided Holidays (Excl. Flights)

Journey from the sweeping coastline of Puglia to UNESCO Alberobello and onto the ancient city of Matera.

Culture

8 Days from 3 480 €

Guided Group (Excl. Flights)

Cycle by e-bike through the heart of southern Italy from Puglia to the Amalfi Coast

Cycling

Explore the picturesque landscapes of Puglia and ancient history of Matera in style

Walking & Trekking

12 Days from 1 680 €

Self-Guided Holidays (Excl. Flights)

Starting in Matera, the city of 'Sassi' and a UNESCO world heritage site, and through the local canyons, the 'gravine', you will enter Puglia, a unique landscape sandwiched between the Adriatic and Ionian seas.

Cycling

Explore Puglia's unspoilt villages, gently rolling hills with a backdrop of the clear, emerald Adriatic

Cycling

Explore Puglia's unspoilt villages, gently rolling hills with a backdrop of the clear, emerald Adriatic

Cycling

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I loved the itinerary! Saw so much in a week and at the same time did not feel rushed. I felt there was enough time to explore the highlights of the region. I enjoyed exploring Matera and Polignano a Mare. The lunch on day 5 was delicious – one of the best meals I have had in Italy. The coastal walk was lovely as well in Otranto. The places we stayed were so unique. I loved the Trulli house in Alberobello. I also loved the group and sharing the experience with like-minded people.

Erica Kaplan Puglia: Discover the Heel of Italy

A week of varied walking. The Trulli houses are very interesting. And the cave dwellings in Matera are amazing. Some walks are more interesting than others. All at a moderate pace.

Chris Nixon Walking in Puglia & Matera

I’ve done a few cycling trips over the years with Exodus and loved them all, but this one left me just a little flat. It started well enough, Matera is beautiful and as we cycled out of Matera the scenery was lovely and the sun was shining. But the days that followed were just a little frustrating really. We stayed in a farmhouse for two nights (not the one advertised) and both were lovely, but we arrived each day at around 3:30 and then you have nothing to do for the rest of the day because you’re literally in the middle of nowhere. I wish we had stayed in Ostuni for one of these nights. This also meant we were limited to eating from a basic set menu each night we were in the farmhouses, which was a bit disappointing as the food in this part of Italy can be amazing.

On the plus side we did cycle every day but lots of it felt like it was on busy roads, I wish we could have spent more time on the coast. I also felt we often cycled through a lovely village or town but then stopped for lunch in some very random and not great places. Would have been nice to have a bit more information on some of the towns we stopped in, on previous trips there’s been a little walking tour but not on this one. This could have been so much better, but it just wasn’t. For the first time if someone asked me if they should go on this trip I would say no…..

Steven Phillips Cycling Puglia & Matera

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