A practical guide to the Italian regions of Puglia, Basilicata, and Calabria with suggested itineraries, advice, addresses, and tips.
Between the spur and the heel of Italy, far from Tuscany and the Veneto, emerges an ancient land whose vocation is undoubtedly to remind us that tourism does not stop below Naples. Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria remain in fact places in southern Europe where one is still caught by a wind of authenticity almost intact. The Normans of the Middle Ages understood this well before us, the French, by leaving indelible architectural traces there.