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A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982, Florence is universally known as the City of Art, thanks to the many prominent figures who created works here that are known and admired all over the world.

Fascinating capital of the Puglia region and a city with a long mercantile and entrepreneurial tradition, Bari is particularly famous in the Eastern and Orthodox world thanks to its numerous political and cultural ties with the Middle East. The Basilica of San Nicola, which houses the saint's relics, has helped make the city a centre of communication between different religious denominations.

Bruscoli is a small gem nestled among the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines: this small hamlet of just 230 inhabitants is located exactly halfway between Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany.

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 in the province of Bari, best known for being home to the main site of the Alta Murgia National Park.

European Capital of Culture, city of music, home to the oldest university in the world: the wonderful Bologna is a city that represents one of the main crossroads between northern and southern Italy, as well as a vibrant hub for students from all over the world, making it an extraordinary multicultural centre.

Starting from Bari and continuing along the Cammino Materano, you reach the charming town of Bitetto, a municipality of almost 12,000 inhabitants known as the “city of Termite olives”, named after the particular quality of the olives that grow in this area.

Cassano delle Murge, or Cassano Murge, is a small town in the province of Bari, located in the highest part of Puglia, on the Murge plateau. It is particularly well known for its proximity to the Mercadante Forest, a wonderful equipped pine forest established in 1928.