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Fascinating capital of the Puglia region and city with a great mercantile and entrepreneurial tradition, Bari is particularly famous in the Eastern and Orthodox world thanks to its numerous political-cultural contacts with the Middle East. In fact, the Basilica of San Nicola, which preserves the relics of the saint, has made the city a center of communication between different religious confessions.

Bruscoli is a small gemstone nestled between the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines: this small village of only 230 inhabitants, in fact, is located exactly halfway between Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany regions.

Small but spectacular city in Basilicata, Matera is mainly known for the extraordinary nature of its Sassi. Having become a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993, the first site in southern Italy to receive this honor, Matera is one of the oldest cities still inhabited in the world.

Santeramo in Colle is the highest-located municipality in the province of Bari. Its name in fact derives from the existence of a place of worship, probably a hermitage with a monastery.

Sasso Marconi is the first town we encounter in the hilly area of the Bolognese Apennines. Totally immersed in nature, surrounded by mountains and the Reno river, it owes its very particular name to Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel Prize winner for physics, father of the radiotelegraph.

Gravina di Puglia is a small town near Bari known mainly for being the main headquarters of the Alta Murgia National Park.

European Capital of Culture, city of music, seat of the oldest university in the world: Bologna is one of the main hubs between northern and southern Italy, but also the nerve centre of students from all over Italy and the world, making the city an extraordinary multicultural cradle.

Starting from Bari and continuing with the Cammino Materano you arrive at the characteristic city of Bitetto, a municipality of almost 12,000 inhabitants called the "city of Termite olives", precisely because of the particular quality of the olives that grow in these areas. 

Cassano delle Murge, also known as Cassano Murge, is a small town in the province of Bari, located in the highest area of Puglia on the Murge plateau. It's particularly known for its proximity to the Mercadante forest, a wonderful equipped pine forest built in 1928.

Altamura is a small town in the province of Bari that despite its small size is known throughout the country thanks to its bread Altamura PDO, the IGP lentil, and for the discovery of Homo neanderthalensis occurred in these areas.