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We spending a week in mid-April in Ostuni. We have not been to Puglia before and I would like some recommendations of things to do. I posted about my trip planning on this thread.
Amy wrote about her Ostuni trip her blog, so I am getting some advice there.
One place she went that I want to go to is the Dolmen of Montalbano. From Amy's blog: "A short drive from Ostuni is the town of Montalbano near Fasano (corrected), and the “blink and you’ll miss it” sign pointing to the Dolmen of Montalbano. The small road leads to an even smaller one, and finally you turn down a stone-walled track barely wider than a Fiat Panda. And just off the road, in an abandoned olive grove, is a bronze age dolmen."
Bronze Age, 2000 - 1500 BC. I like these prehistoric dolmen and have seen then in England, Ireland and France, but not in Italy (or in Portugal, although we must have been very near the one we were searching for but didn't find).
We will spend a few days in Ostuni and the nearby seaside.
Another day finding the Trulli, which are near Alberbello from what I read - where are the best places to go for them?
The city of Lecce is just an hour from Ostuni, so we will have a day there.
Galipoli is 1hr 15min, so we may go there too, either the same day as Lecce or a different day.
It would be nice to do a walk/hike somewhere, other than walking in towns.
Recommendations?
We are spending the night in Matera after our week in Ostuni and then a few days in Basilicata.
Amy wrote about her Ostuni trip her blog, so I am getting some advice there.
One place she went that I want to go to is the Dolmen of Montalbano. From Amy's blog: "A short drive from Ostuni is the town of Montalbano near Fasano (corrected), and the “blink and you’ll miss it” sign pointing to the Dolmen of Montalbano. The small road leads to an even smaller one, and finally you turn down a stone-walled track barely wider than a Fiat Panda. And just off the road, in an abandoned olive grove, is a bronze age dolmen."
Bronze Age, 2000 - 1500 BC. I like these prehistoric dolmen and have seen then in England, Ireland and France, but not in Italy (or in Portugal, although we must have been very near the one we were searching for but didn't find).
We will spend a few days in Ostuni and the nearby seaside.
Another day finding the Trulli, which are near Alberbello from what I read - where are the best places to go for them?
The city of Lecce is just an hour from Ostuni, so we will have a day there.
Galipoli is 1hr 15min, so we may go there too, either the same day as Lecce or a different day.
It would be nice to do a walk/hike somewhere, other than walking in towns.
Recommendations?
We are spending the night in Matera after our week in Ostuni and then a few days in Basilicata.
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