There Pugliawith its thousand beauties, its villages and the splendid sea, has always won everyone’s hearts. A region so special that the famous and authoritative English newspaper, The Times, wrote in one of its latest articles a list of the lesser-known and most beautiful villages in Puglia, underlining authenticity and pure beauty, even beyond the places, albeit wonderful, most famous and popular with tourists in Puglia, such as Alberobello. L’Times article in fact it focuses on the pure essence that the villages such as Altamura Trani and Conversano transmit, among ancient beauties and traditions, electing also the special and small village, with its stone houses, of Gravina in Puglia. In doing so, The Times with its article crowned the pearls of Puglia less known, leading to making the region known in all its facets and highlighting villages that deserve, like other more famous parts of Puglia, to be discovered in all their majesty.
Gravina in Puglia: the village carved into the rock praised in the Times
The ranking, drawn up on the article of “travel journalist” Charlotte Eggleston-Johnstone and published in the online version of the English newspaper “The Times”see bro the top ten lesser-known cities Gravina in Puglia an authentic reality which, according to the journalist, must be visited even though it is not beaten by the national and international tourist flow. In the heart of the Alta Murgia, this town in the province of Bari is located right on a crack in the earth’s crust from which it takes its name: the Canyon of the Gravine. The history of Gravina in Puglia is very ancient and dates back to the 17th century BC. During the barbarian invasions, the populations took refuge in caves which then became their rock dwellings, in which many of the town’s churches were also built. Among these, the real protagonists are the rock churches: San Michele delle Grotte of the 18th century, the Church of the Madonna della Stella and the Church of the Sepulcret or Santa Maria degli Angeli.
Altamura: the part of Puglia to discover for the Times
Altamura famous throughout the world for its excellent DOP bread and the PGI lentil is found to be part of the Times list of boroughs less known but special and worth visiting in Pugliasuch as Oria, Mola di Bari, Gravina in Puglia, Conversano, Putignano, Trani, Castro, Maglie and Canosa of Puglia. A village where, in the Lamalunga cavediscovered in 1193, was the only skeleton of a 150,000 year old man has been foundjokingly called Ciccillo. In Lamalunga Cave, the football formations were compared by the Times as similar to “popcorny”. Of equal beauty, also praised by the Times journalist, is the Romanesque Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta to the city center. But to make a complete journey to discover what Altamura has been over time, the ancient sites of Altamurathe Dinosaur Quarry, the Caves, the Megalithic Walls and the Pulo of Altamura, among the most famous.
Trani: the pearl of Puglia
Trani ddefined by the Times away from the masses and complete with everything with the blue sea, the splendid historic center and the limestone buildings. The beautiful cathedral and the Swabian castle mean that the English correspondent defines it as the pearl of Puglia. Here, where you live in a serene and peaceful atmosphere, surrounded by all the beauties of this well-kept and incomparable town, walking along its tourist port, discovering the municipal villa, the theater and loving the historic center. Of remarkable beauty the Cathedral of Trani which dates back to 1100; its peculiarity is certainly the position which gives it that unique appearance, between the sea and the sky north of the Port. No less important is the Swabian Castle of Tranibuilt by Frederick II of Swabia, entering inside, you can perceive and discover all the events and the different dynasties that inhabited itthe ideal way to find out more about history of the castle and the territory of Trani.
Conversano with its Aragonese castle built by the Normans
They conversein the province of Bari, won the heart of the English journalist with its Aragonese Castle, its countless shops with windows full of splendid jewels, and its culinary delicacies served in the rooms with tables positioned along the staircases, which surround the walls of the ancient city of Norba. This splendid town, where life flows slowly through its white streets, offers the interesting Piazza Castello, meeting place and main point of Conversano. Worth visiting are the cathedral dedicated to San Benedetto, also famous as the cathedral of Conversano and the church of Cosma and Damiano. But we must not forget, even though it is 6 km from the centre, the Marchione Castle who for a long time were the lords of this place.
