Articles about Puglia (0-33 of 33)

  • Welcome To Heaven On Earth ~ Salento
    By: ATarantino | - If you've decided Italy is the place to pay your holidays, Puglia (otherwise known as Apulia) will be the premiere destination. This delightful Southern Italy holiday destination includes the southern portion of the Adriatic coastline, to your east of Italy. It encompasses all of the southeaster peninsula which forms what exactly is sometimes called the heel with the boot.
    This peninsula, called Salento, hosts the most majestic stretch of Adriatic coastline to your east, and Ionic Coastli ...

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  • Highway Code And Eyesight Control
    By: Serena Rigato | - The news for this just-begun 2012 are a lot, both in the legislative field- because of the lasts decisions of the technical government- and in the Highway Code rules.
    It seems in fact that during this year there are some news on stage, in terms of work, security at work and also in terms of Highway Code, which will be more overbearing with the drivers who dont respect road laws, who drive under the effect of drugs or alcohol or who dont follow the specific medical prescriptions estab ...

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  • Puglia Is An Unforgettable Destination
    By: Jason Smith | - Puglia (or Apulia) is Located in the south of Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of tranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. The Puglia region is a long, narrow peninsula, mostly occupied by plains and hills, apart from some lower mountains of the Southern Apennine chain and the Gargano promontory, with high, steep cliffs. Puglia is a gem for visitors looking for relatively non commercialised regions of Europe to explore and holiday in ...
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  • A Wine Lover's Near Weekly Guide To $15 Wines - A Southern Italian Primitivo
    By: Levi Reiss | - Apulia, also called Puglia, situated on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy produces a huge quantity of wine. Along with Sicily and Veneto it contends for the dubious title of Italy's top wine producer, volume wise. This is an up and coming region, quality wise. While the region is flat, its soil tends to be good for winemaking. This particular wine comes from the region's center, not far south from Bari, the regional capital. It is named for a lovely small town whose name translates to Jewels ...
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  • Lake Garda From Verona By Bicycle To Discover Nature!
    By: Martinapp | -
    There are many possibilities in tour Lake Garda we can take, but certainly the most fascinating and that does not exclude any other is what draws the great literary figures who have passed through these places and were very fascinated by them. Starting from ancient times we cannot forget the great Roman poet Catullus, from which is also called the airport of Verona, ideal for those coming from further away and does not want to miss the lake. The presence of Catullus in these lands can be ...

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  • A Different Way To Discover Salento, The Heel Of Italy
    By: Francesca Tessarollo | - Salento is an area of the Puglia region with a character of its own, with specific traditions and a variety of places and products that make it a must-see destination for every lover of the sea, the food and, most of all, fine Italian wines.

    Land of the production of many varieties of wine, Salento is also known as the heel of Italy since it is positioned at the very edge of the boot shaped peninsula. It is in the southern part of Puglia, between the Ionic and the Adriatic Sea ...

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  • Italy Guide To Travel And Discover Places
    By: Yousef Edward | -
    Italy is a really very beautiful country. It is a place of olive oil, pasta, wine, mafia and sunshine, roman ruins and many beautiful palaces are in Italy, Here Italy tourists get full knowledge about the Italy .Some places are really amazing and interesting, that is only possible if you are coming here with us.. Italy is full of many interesting casual tourist and the educated tourist Here tourists are stay with us a week, more than a week. They can not feel bore here. In the north Italy ...

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  • Lucca ""an Exciting Tourist Hub!
    By: Michael | - Tired of your tight working schedule and you desperately need a break? Then, go ahead and plan for a short vacation trip to keep yourself away from the busy life! If youre in a fix on choosing the perfect spot for the perfect holiday, then here is a suggestion for you the magnificent country of Italy! Of all Italy tourist attractions, the hill town of Lucca in Tuscan can be given a try this time.

    Comparatively, Lucca is bigger than the other Tuscan towns and is favored as one of ...

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  • Italian Art Of Eating!
    By: Michael | - When planning for a vacation we get baffled with the various touring options. However, when you think of Italy, other places automatically fade out of your thoughts. However what you should know is that there is a lot more to Italy than the amazing places, such as Venice, Rome, Florence, and Naples - to name a few.

    Your vacation to Italy can become even memorable, provided you gel well with its culture. To start with, you get to know about the Italy food culture. Your mouth will start ...

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  • Cheap Holidays To Italy- Great Destination To Make Great Memories
    By: Faire Willson | - For a vacation jam-packed with adventure, culture and romance, book your cheap holidays to Italy. Italy offers a wide range of fabulous art and architecture and fascinating little towns. You can find some of the most glorious countryside and coastline and get to taste some of the finest food and wine in this country. Booking cheap holiday packages will let you save a lot of your hard earned money as well as let you make the most of your vacation.

    Whether you are a beach lover, a p ...

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  • Up And Down Through Italy Searching The Carnival"s Tastes!
    By: Martinapp | - In addition to the products themselves there are also numerous recipes that can be found in the Italian tradition, a different proposal for every occasion, many kind of cakes that in every region are related to a particular years period. Just thinking to the panettone and pandoro, typical cakes of the Christmas period, specialties exported all over the world. But not only in especial occasion there are cakes but also all over the year, just think to nougat that is appreciated ever ...
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  • Efectiva Cassano
    By: Vansci110 | - The day before the transfer window closed last year, AC Milan with the Wholesale Football Shirt Shop, eating one after another center of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden, and Brazil's Robinho, told media the form of Ronaldinho and Pato a terrorist attack "Cuatro large. " Half of the season in the past because the state of deterioration on the bench and refused to choose Ronaldinho and AC Milan to promote peace break high efficiency, taking advantage Milan AC Sampdoria Antonio Cassano and epidemic Garr ...
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  • Traveling Cheap With Your Children To Italy
    By: Jack Bulker | - If you are considering taking your holidays to Italy with your entire family you need to be ready for some big time price tags. The costs of eating, staying somewhere, your transportation as well as souvenirs has increased immensely over the past few years. But if you plan your trip well and do your homework you should be able to cut down on some of the cost for this family trip.

    There are some tips that you can try to follow to help make your travel in Italy a bit cheaper and shoul ...

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  • "trulli": One Of The Incomparable Beauty In Italy
    By: Martinapp | - In addition, virtually all regions allow both to enjoy the natural beauty is to explore the historical memory of the place where we are.

    An example that may be worth for all is surely the one of the trulli in Puglia, in the south of Italy. The trulli are located mainly in the area of Bari, especially in the city of Alberobello and are precisely the construction that maintain their appeal over time and their usefulness.

    Trulli are stone buildings, speci ...

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  • Property In Puglia - The Situation Of Its Real Estate Market
    By: Simone Rossi | - Puglia is the wonderful region located at the heel of Italy and it has been attracting loads of home investors both from Italy and from overseas. Its red soil, gorgeous olive groves, tourquois seas and blu skys keep fashinating its visitors. However, the financial crisis that hist world's property markets has passed by here too, and how has Puglia reacted?

    Well, the tourist locations on the coast saw a slight price decrease by 3.8% in the second half of 2009, but overall the region ...

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  • The Event Of The South Italy: Fiera Del Levante
    By: AndreaPP | - As from 1936 the international trade fair will be held in the stand of the city of Bari Italian The Fiera del Levante is the major Italian event which has international importance for the European and Mediterranean areas. The fair is into the district called Festa an Saint Jerome and the main entrance is on the Baris seafront. The last edition has hosted more than a million visitors and about two thousand exhibitors from all around the world.


    Inside the fair you can find ...

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  • Travel Safe: Check The Tires!
    By: Michele de Capitani | - According to an estimate realized by Federpneus, the Italian association of specialist tire dealers, this summer about 25 millions Italians will be traveling by car. This high number is made even more significant by another interesting datum: the average distance traveled by Italian people is increasing in comparison to last summer, from 390 to 402 kilometers. The trend to use the car more and more, also for quite long travels, should result in a greater care of ones car, motor home or motorb ...
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  • I Love Wine And Italy - Wine Touring In Apulia
    By: Levi Reiss | - So you have decided to go to Apulia, the heel of the Italian boot surrounded by the Adriatic Sea and the Gulf of Taronto. This is part of the south, in many ways the real, unspoiled Italy. The boot's spur is the beautiful Promontorio del Gargano (Gargano Promontory). You may want to visit the Foresta Umbra (Shady Forest), a real ecological delight bursting with animal and plant life. There's the mysterious eight-sided Castel del Monte. Don't miss the unique Apulian habitations, Trulli, that look ...
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  • Why Buy Property In Le Marche
    By: Simone Rossi | - Le Marche region reflects all the charm and the beauty of Central Italy. Located on the east side of the country, this wonderful territory raises with hills in central areas, up to the Appennini Mountains.

    Lots of tourists visit Le Marche for its natural beauty and most of the spectacular mountains and country-side remain untouched by the excesses of the last Century. Its unique landscapes, mixed with the hospitality of its people, create a temptation to anybody visiting this area.< ...

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  • Men's Fashion Trend-setters Of The Millennia
    By: Jackie Loftis | - Men's fashion is constantly evolving; designers come and go, styles are invented and reinvented, textile science constantly generating new fabrics and the whole cycle is never-ending.

    Men's fashion as we know it today has been greatly influenced by a number of fashion/style icons going way back to the 18th century; these people who possessed remarkable sense of style became very popular during their time that they were the equivalent of sex symbols in our modern society. One perso ...

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  • A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines - A Basic Red From Southern Italy
    By: Levi Reiss | - I am quite a fan of fine Italian wine, and have managed to taste and review at least one wine from each of Italy's twenty regions. This column has examined several bargain Italian wines. Today we look at a red wine from Apulia, also known as Puglia. This mostly flat region is second in Italian wine production to Sicily. Both regions have made major efforts to upgrade their wine quality; in general, Sicily has been more successful.

    This red wine is based on Apulia's most popular gra ...

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  • A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines - A Carton Of Organic Sangiovese
    By: Levi Reiss | - Sangiovese. When I hear that word, I feel obliged to tell a story. During the final semester of my wine steward course at one of our wine dinners we were served, unknown to us, a Brunello di Montalcino wine. This is one of Tuscany's great wines that for obvious reasons will never be reviewed in this column. I was sitting across from our teacher. When the first drops of this noble liquid reached my lips I uttered a single word, pronounced more slowly than usual, Sangiovese. Twenty wine students, ...
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  • I Love Touring Italy - Springtime In Apulia
    By: Levi Reiss | - Apulia, also known as Puglia, is a long thin region of southern Italy facing on the Adriatic Sea. Because it is a southern region, spring comes here fairly early. On March 19 the town of Cisternino located about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of Brindisi hosts the Festival of the Gnemerlidde held in honor of its patron San Giuseppe. In case you don't know, gnemerlidde are lamb giblets cut into strips and rolled up before they are skewered and grilled. Enjoy them with other local specialties ...
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  • Italian Wine Regions
    By: Louise Truswell | - Wine is massively important for Italy. The country is said to be the second largest wine producer in the world and boasts a myriad of winemaking regions, each producing a diverse array of wines. With reports of 900,000 registered vineyards (enough for one vineyard for every seven people) and more native grapes than any other wine country, any newcomer to the wine-world would be forgiven for getting a little overwhelmed when choosing Italian wine. But dont let that turn you off. In th ...
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  • Five Things To Do In Puglia
    By: Andrew Gibson | - Puglia is popularly referred as the "heel of Italy's boot" and is the fine assortment of baroque churches, pagan dances and fairytale cottages. This captivating terrain is full of picturesque locations that are very popular with families staying in holiday homes.

    Puglia boasts about its long history and has a wide range of travel attractions that are well worth a visit. Puglia is divided into six provinces making it more interesting when renting holiday villas.

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  • What Are The Origins Of The Trulli Houses
    By: Priya Singh | - According to tradition, in 1620 the trulli houses became urban residences; for the first time Alberobello experimented a serious population increase, tanks to Giangirolamo (Jean Jerome) Acquaviva of Aragon, also known as the Apulian "guercio" (cross-eyed), who inherited the title of Earl of Conversano. He encouraged the peasants to settle near Silva Arboris, by granting them a piece of land and occasionally some tax relief. The Earl wanted to enlarge his domain without falling under the King of ...
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  • Historical City Of Apulia
    By: Priya Singh | - Apulia is situated between the Adriatic and the Ionian sea in the East of Southern Italy. Rich in cultural treasures the long-stretched region offers an azure blue ocean, grottos and bays, white sandy beaches and 300 sunny days a year.

    Considering the long drawn-out history of Apulia the diversity of the land is not surprising. Due to its strategically vital point on the Italian peninsula being also the gate to the eastern Mediterranean it early became one of the centers of Magn ...

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  • Legal Translations In Real Estate Transactions
    By: Priya Singh | - All binding legal documents relating to an Italian real estate transaction must be written in Italian, independently from the nationality of the parties.
    Italian legal writing is highly technical, ritualistic and often archaic due to the close links with Roman law.
    Ultimately it can appear to be obscure for people lacking a solid legal background in Italian law.
    All this is further complicated by the profound differences between legal systems, more specifically between the E ...

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  • Trulli Of Alberobello Information
    By: Priya Singh | - Alberobello, in the heart of the Itria Valley in southern Italy, is the only town in the world that was founded and grew as a land of trulli. The Trulli of Alberobello are an example of human ingenuity and the ability to adapt. The only plentiful construction material was stone and the trulli were the solution found by the first peasants who arrived to colonize the ancient forest some 500 years ago. At that time, anyone who built a dwelling on the King's land was heavily taxed. With this in mind ...
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  • Basilicata The Last Undiscovered Region Of Italy
    By: R. Ritchie | - The southern Italian region of Basilicata borders on Campania to the west, Puglia (Apulia) to the east, and Calabria to the south, and has a short coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea and another on the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea to the southeast. While it's not the first place you might think of for a holiday in Italy, the region has a special charm that is slowly being discovered by visitors who are keen to get away from the more touristy parts of Italy.

    Basilicata offers stun ...

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  • The Bread That Ran Big Mac Out Of Town
    By: Steven Elliott | - We continue our lifestyle updates about Puglia.

    A recent Times newspaper article came to mind that says a lot about Puglia and how people view their food in this part of the world.

    AFTER a five-year battle, the fast-food giant McDonald's has retreated from a southern Italian town, defeated by the sheer wholesomeness of a local baker's bread.
    The closure of McDonald's in Altamura, Puglia, was hailed yesterday as a victory for European cuisine against globalis ...

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