Travel Puglia

The Best Gelato in Lecce

What's your biggest weakness when you go to Italy? I bet it's gelato. Travelers often have joked to me that their favorite "meals" in Italy have been gelato. When I rented an apartment by myself for 3 weeks in Lecce (region of Puglia, Italy's "heel") this past spring, I didn't have anyone showing me around the city and suggesting the best gelato near me. Before I looked any

What to do in Gallipoli

"Era considerato l'oro verde," (It was considered green gold,) Marco says as we leave the whitewashed light of the via, and take a tunnel-like stairway down to a cave under the street. I'm in Gallipoli, on the Ionian coast of Puglia, with Italian friends. This area was once part of Magna Grecia (greater Greece,) and Gallipoli's Greek name was Kallí Pólis (beautiful