Tag: Culture

• Not your average ‘Wine Tour’

  

    What do you look for when visiting a foreign country? Do you want to get to know the local culture? Sample the local food? Taste the local wine? And meet local people who are passionate about all of the above? Then why not join us on our Puglian Pleasures, ‘Food, wine & cultural experience’? […]

  Valerie Knott

  06/05/2018

  Culture and Traditions, Events, Food and Wine, Tours

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• Pizzica in the Piazza: 22nd September 2016

  

  Come and join us for a fabulous evening at Corso Vittorio Veneto, San Michele Salentino for ‘Pizzica in the Piazza’ from 9pm onwards. Summer is drawing to an end but we’re not letting it go just yet! Let’s festeggiare insieme!!! Watch the ‘Senature’ Pizzica group perform live in the small piazza outside Corso Vittorio Veneto, vineria […]

  Valerie Knott

  20/09/2016

  Events

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• Step back in time to relax and unwind: Masseria Cappella

  

  Driving through the Valle D’Itria in Puglia, is always a pleasurable experience but this day was particularly beautiful. The bright blue sky was interspersed with fluffy white clouds, the rolling hills were scattered with old and new Trulli dwellings, and the  curvy, undulating road made the journey even more enjoyable. I was en-route to an […]

  Valerie Knott

  20/05/2016

  Cities, Culture and Traditions, Recommendations

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• What’s Happening in May 2016

  Here’s a few dates for your social calendar! 8th May Ostuni Street Music Festival Location: Ostuni Piazza & Centro Storico Time: 15:30-22:00 Price: Free! For more information, check out their Facebook page. 8th-12th May October Beer Festival in Spring! Plus live music. Location: Macondo, Ostuni. Time: 21:30 Price: Depends on how many beers your have! For […]

  Valerie Knott

  08/05/2016

  Culture and Traditions, Events

  Brindisi, Cortili Aperti, Culture, events, Events in Puglia, Italian Culture, Italy, Lecce, live music, music, Music Festivals, Open Courtyards, Ostuni, Puglia, Puglian Pleasures, Salento, wine, wine festival, Wine tasting

• Antichi Sapori: An antiquity of Salento delights

  

  Even on a cold, wintery day in Puglia, with a sprinkling of snow on the ground, there was still a very warm welcome from Antichi Sapori. Where Giusy was keen to welcome us into her store in Alberobello. This quintessential, coned shaped, 17th century trullo, was filled with an array of candy coloured pasta in […]

  Valerie Knott

  05/03/2016

  Cities, Culture and Traditions, Food and Wine

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• Judging an Advanced Culinary Art Course: Oh, what fun!

  

  It was a great honour to be invited to judge an advanced culinary art competition at the 4 Star Ostuni Palace Hotel, in Ostuni the other night. And it was a lot of fun to boot! The competition was the penultimate event in an advanced culinary art course, organised by Emilio Geri, of Todo Modo […]

  Valerie Knott

  25/02/2016

  Cooking like a local, Culture and Traditions, Events, Food and Wine

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• A Sneaky Peek into Puglia: January 2016

  

  Written by Richard Watkins Belated welcome to 2016! January is a fairly quiet month, after the extravagance of Christmas and New Year, which we spent with about thirty friends, at a local restaurant, eating drinking and generally being merry! In early January, Italy celebrates Befana, to quote from Wikipedia ‘In Italian folklore, Befana is an […]

  Valerie Knott

  03/02/2016

  Peek into Puglia

  Carabinieri, Culture, Happy New Year!, Italian blogs, Italian Culture, Italian Traditions, Italy, Puglia

• Olive Oil: It’s in their blood

  

  The once quite Puglian countryside, is now alive with the satisfying sounds of olives dropping to the ground (albeit with a little help!) and the sound of tractors up and down the lanes, transporting olives to the press, as the olive harvest season is well underway. This time of year I often remember, with fondness, […]

  Valerie Knott

  23/11/2015

  Culture and Traditions

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• Wine Travel Destination: Puglia, Italy

  This magical wine destination is a thin peninsula packed tight with stunning beauty and surrounded by some of the bluest waters in Europe. Flanked by two seas, magical Puglia is a thin peninsula packed tight with the same attributes that attracted us to Italy decades ago: It’s an undiscovered land with an enviable quality of […]

  Valerie Knott

  19/10/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Events, Food and Wine

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• Free Jazz Festival and much more! – Alberobello

  Alberobello will be celebrating two fantastic events back-to-back over 4 days, starting 30th April. The first event is to celebrate the 2nd edition of UNESCO IN JAZZ FESTIVAL, an international festival devoted to Jazz as part of UNESCO International Day. Alberobello trulli were recognised by UNESCO in 1996 for their unique architecture and outstanding beautiful. […]

  Valerie Knott

  29/04/2015

  Culture and Traditions, Events

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