Puglia, the so-called “Italy’s heel”, sublimates the essence of the South: from Gargano to Salento, a sunny, dry Mediterranean landscape opens up, where the silvery green of centuries-old olive groves and the rust-red earth meet the horizon of two seas, the Adriatic and the Ionian, alongside wide sandy beaches and rough rocky coasts, and where a millenary civilization, dating back far beyond the Greek presence, conveys a widespread and varied human fabric, with typically local architectural expressions, such as rural farms and trulli, and precious historic centers, from the most minute to those of cities like Bari, with its Norman-Swabian heart, and Lecce, baroque inlay of stone and light.