Living in Puglia
Famous as the ‘high heel of Italy’, Puglia sticks out from the bottom of the Italian mainland to be embraced by the sea on both sides. It has the longest coastline of any Italian region, with about 500 miles of seaside – ranging from chalk-white or golden sands to dramatic rocky cliffs.
With all that coast basking in warm southern weather, Puglia has long been loved by holidaymakers from northern Italy. It burst onto the international scene in the early 2000s when budget airlines put it within easy reach, and since then it’s never looked back, becoming hugely loved by foreign visitors and homebuyers – especially as its properties have remained such excellent value for money.
Puglia is very distinctive in terms of its look and feel, cuisine and culture. It can seem almost a little country of its own. There are unique building roofs which give a fairytale air to little teapot cottages, the square white cottages which resemble giant sugar cubes, and large elegant farmhouses that stand serene amidst vast olive groves. Old towns of cubic whitewashed buildings make you think you could be on a Greek Cycladic island.
