{"id":7446,"date":"2024-02-06T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T03:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=7446"},"modified":"2024-02-07T10:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T15:42:51","slug":"8-of-the-best-things-to-do-in-puglia-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/8-of-the-best-things-to-do-in-puglia-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"8 of the best things to do in Puglia, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/articles\/top-things-to-do-in-puglia\">Lonely Planet<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Puglia embodies everything that is seductive about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/southern-italy\">southern Italy<\/a>: rolling countryside blanketed in almond and olive groves, luridly turquoise beaches, snug whitewashed villages, and long, lazy lunches washed down with prized local vino.<\/p><p>Lapped by two seas and stretching 432km (268 miles) from north to south, the region&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/puglia\">Puglia<\/a>&nbsp;delivers an array of diverse landscapes, from the light-dappled woods of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/puglia\/promontorio-del-gargano\">Gargano promontory<\/a>&nbsp;to the Greek-speaking,&nbsp;<em>pizzica<\/em>-dancing towns of far-flung&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/puglia\/salento\">Salento<\/a>. Should you cycle between bougainvillea-draped towns in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/puglia\/valle-d-itria\">Valle d\u2019Itria<\/a>, snorkel the Tremiti Islands, or feast on&nbsp;<em>pasticciotti&nbsp;<\/em>(creamy pastry) in bombastically baroque&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/puglia\/lecce\">Lecce<\/a>?<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-1443455673-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7447\" width=\"840\" height=\"472\"\/><figcaption>Wirestock \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/articles\/top-things-to-do-in-puglia\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The list of great things to do is as long as Puglia itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[196,949,1183,1810],"class_list":{"0":"post-7446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-italy","9":"tag-puglia","10":"tag-travel","11":"tag-travel-advice"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GettyImages-1443455673.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7448,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/revisions\/7448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}