Tag: Puglia
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Wine Tours
What better way to discover Puglia than through it’s wine! Come and learn about the history of Puglian wine with us. We’ll customise a tour that’s right for you. Maybe you just want to get down to the tasting of the wine or you’d like a tour of the vineyard and barrel room or maybe…
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The smallest village with the biggest party!
’The smallest village with the biggest party’. Diso ready to pay homage to the ‘Santi nosci’ Filippo and Giacomo After a year of fervent preparations, Diso is preparing to honor its Patron Saints Filippo and Giacomo, once again confirming itself as ‘the smallest town with the biggest party’. In Diso the preparations for the festival…
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Beautiful Boutique Vineyard
Discovering more Puglian vineyards. It was with much anticipation and elation after such a long time in lockdown, and living under strict government enforcement rules that limited our freedom, that we’re now finally able to breathe again, to live again and to experience new things again. So, one of the first things I wanted to…
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We’re Back!
Our lives have been put on hold for over 2 years, but now it’s time to take back control, time to live, to laugh and to create new memories. We’re relaunching our Pulgian Pleasures wines tours and this year we want to offer you more! New intriguing wineries, with interesting stories to tell, with like…
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Cisternino and Locorotondo
Cisternino and Locorotondo are two of the most beautiful whitewashed, hilltop cities in Puglia. Off the radar of many tourists, who generally head to Ostuni , theses two quaint little towns offer something Ostuni doesn’t. They offer serenity, authenticity and an old world charm that seems to warm your soul, even on the coldest of…
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Ostuni
Ostuni, la Città Bianca (The White City) is an absolute, must go to place if visiting Puglia. Its whitewashed windy streets are reminiscent of many Greek towns because it was once occupied by Greeks, along with many other countries which invaded this beautiful city due to its prominent position. Each country left their architecture mark…
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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’?…
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Day of the Dead
We’ve all heard of Halloween and the scary stories surrounding this day which takes place on 31st October. Kids (and some adults!) dress-up in fancy dress costumes, go trick-or-treating, carve lanterns out of pumpkins and traditional placed them outside their front door, to ward-off evil spirits. However, Halloween derived from the Catholic celebration which honours all…
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High life to paradise: From NYC a place that never sleeps to Puglia, a piccola paradise.
Here’s Martin Markovitz’s account of his life changing decision to move to Puglia. Thanks for sharing your story with Puglian Pleasures Martin. One year ago today, Jeanne and I stepped off the plane from New York. We haven’t looked back since. We traded in a noisy, overcrowded, polluted, gruff and impersonal situation for a life…