Actividayz offers outdoor adventures, cooking classes, and other one-day activities in Puglia and throughout Italy. Our activities allow travelers to immerse themselves in Italian culture and daily life.
Puglia beach resorts along the Adriatic and Ionican coasts. Most of the beaches are wide and sandy, giving way to attractive rocky coves, some with magnificent sea caves, in a few parts of Gargano and the Salentino peninsula. Beginning at the Gargano promontory, the most important centres are Rodi Garganico, Peschici, Vieste, the elegant Pugnochiuso and Baia delle Zagare. Someday we hope to add a calendar of events in Puglia.
Farther south lie Bisceglie, Polignano a Mare, Torre Canne, Marina di Ostuni, Roca Vecchia, Castro Marina and Leuca, at the tip of Salento. If you like Italian food, you should consider cooking classes in Puglia. Along the Ionican coastline, Gallipoli is followed by S. Mari al Bagno, Porto Cesareo, Marina di Pulsano, Riva dei Tessali and Marina di Ginosa. Unforgettable is the rocky little Tremiti archipelago, off the Gargano coast.
Barletta, famous for the Disfida with a statue of the Colosso; Trani, with a fine Romanesque cathedral (12th century); Monopoli, near the ruins of of the pre-Roman city of Egnazia; and Otranto. In the immediate Bari hinterland lies Bitonto, a fine example of Pugliese architecture.
The visitor would do well to see the villages of Monte St. Angelo in the Gargano hills, Lucera in Capitanata, with the remains of a Roman amphitheatre, Troia. To see this area, you may want to consider one of numerous Puglia tours. In the Murges area, lie Canosa with its cathedral Castel del Monte. Alberobello, with its trulli; Gioia del Colle; Altamura, Grottaglie; Manduria (megalithic walls and necropolis).