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Love Puglia | Ceglie Messapica Guide - the Puglia Guys With an attractive historic centre that feels less curated Ceglie Messapicaknown for excellent gastronomy, is authentic, hospitable, and full of character.

Ceglia Messapica is recognised as one of Italy’s gastronomic hubs. Our guide explains why Ceglie is different from Puglia’s other Valley d’Itria towns.

#TravelAddicts #Travel

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10.03.2026 05:19 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Essential Puglia Itinerary and Day Trips | the Puglia Guys You found the perfect base. Now we strip down essential Puglia destinations so you can fit together the pieces and plan a Puglia itinerary to suit your needs.

Visiting Puglia in 2026? Choose a smart base - one that works for your travel circumstances (time of year, whether you have your own transport, vs public transport). Switch between surf and turf, central Puglia and Salento.

Then plan the perfect Puglia itinerary.

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09.03.2026 18:27 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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It’s mac and cheese, but probably not as you know it.

Traditional southern Italian maccheroni al formaggio cooked for Sunday lunch in our Puglia kitchen - maccarruna 'ncaciati. Macaroni and cheese, the classic way.

#italianfood #macandcheese #foodie #foodsky

08.03.2026 17:35 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
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Bari Vecchia City Guide - the Puglia Guys Explore Bari Vecchia, Puglia - a detailed city guide to the old town’s history, churches, walking routes, local food, and authentic places to eat and explore.

Bari has become Puglia’s top destination - with good reason. Even five years ago, most visitors to Puglia just transited through, on their way somewhere else. Now it’s a definite must visit stop.

The food plays a big part, but it has an interesting old town.

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08.03.2026 17:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Ingredients for our traditional, southern Italian macaroni and cheese. Maccheroni al formaggio. With polpette, salami, primosale, pomodori pelati, pecorino and melanzane.

This is the traditional recipe before there was the cheesy sauce version.

Sunday lunch in our Puglia Kitchen.

#Italy #foodie

08.03.2026 14:54 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Today’s Puglia Kitchen lunch is a traditional southern Italian macaroni and cheese. Maccheroni al formaggio - maccarruna ’ncaciati

Though this classic recipe is far removed from international standard Mac and Cheese.

Here’s how it starts.

#italy #italianfood #recipe #foodsky

08.03.2026 10:58 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The Best of Bari Eating Out Guide - the Puglia Guys From epic street food to traditional dishes respectful of Puglia’s cooking traditions, these dishes best represent Bari - and where to find the best of them.

Back from eating out in Bari, we’ve updated our guide with some new restaurant choices for 2026.

There’s a wide range of authentic, traditional dishes. Restaurants are often well known for a few specific dishes.

#Puglia #Italy #ItalianFood #foodsky #foodie

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08.03.2026 07:22 👍 48 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
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Top! But did you know one of the biggest arguments we have in Puglia over food is whether this dish is called riso, patate e cozze (rice, potatoes and mussels) OR patate, riso e cozze (potatoes rice and mussels)

07.03.2026 06:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Complete Guide to Locorotondo, Puglia - the Puglia Guys Discover Locorotondo year-round: where to eat, walking tips, festive highlights, and insider advice for exploring this whitewashed gem of the Valle d’Itria.

Locorotondo is one of our favourite towns in Puglia’s Valle d’Itria. Whether you are staying over, or passing through, here are our favourite things to do, see and places to eat!

#Puglia #Italy #TravelAddicts

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07.03.2026 06:48 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Ahah! You must feel like you know Puglia very well.

06.03.2026 07:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, it’s exactly there in our guide.

05.03.2026 21:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Love Puglia | Ostuni Guide - the Puglia Guys The ultimate Ostuni guide. Discover Ostuni’s best bars, restaurants and nearby beaches. Insider tips to Puglia’s città bianca.

Nice, Ostuni. Puglia.

We don’t tell, only suggest.

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05.03.2026 21:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Just saying. Wow on top of wow. This was top ossobuco. In Ostuni, Puglia.

#italy #italianfood #visititaly #foodsky

05.03.2026 20:03 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Yes. We started there. Poor Dodo. If only Jackie were alive it would surely be she who appeared in the memory Tardis with Steven instead of Vicki (accident of alive actors).

05.03.2026 19:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ahah! Don’t even ask why Sara Kingdom went upstairs and then downstairs.

05.03.2026 18:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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When you are all alone in a restaurant. In our home base too. The life of the Puglia Guys. Review (or not).

05.03.2026 18:54 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Ahah! We thought she might have gone into psychiatric care before her death (from syphilis). Though that might be someone’s twisted revenge for causing death and genetic mutation from the cold!

05.03.2026 18:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Whatever happened to Dodo, aka Dorothea Anne Chaplet, is a never ending fascinating journey. Can you explain it in brief? We notice Stephen reconnected with Vicki. Time has no limits, but our time stream does, it seems.

05.03.2026 17:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

No problem with honey! Top. Grazie

05.03.2026 16:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Since posting about our GeminiAI review in French, thank you to the follower who pointer out that we are “opinionated”.

But widely considered the most reliable and trustworthy of Puglia travel resources we will take.

#Italy #VisitPuglia #TravelSky

05.03.2026 16:25 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We love Italian food. But somethings we crave other. For this recipe our challenges will be rice syrup (and golden syrup).

05.03.2026 16:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What was troubling was that Scottish nonna overcooked the spaghetti and added a packet of Schwartz bolognaise seasoning to fried mince with a tin of tomatoes.

And this was that - but not in a negative way! Not at all.

05.03.2026 15:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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There was something extremely nostalgic about this tagliatelle al ragù. If you were to swap the tagliatelle for spaghetti it’s just like Scottish nonna would make at her home. I’ve never eaten a dish that made me think of her British “spaghetti bolognaise” as this!

05.03.2026 13:13 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Ahah! It’s not a pool for all seasons though. Best enjoyed in summer - and by the cats!

05.03.2026 06:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A mellow misty morning as the sun is obscured by morning mist, hovering over olive trees in a Puglia olive grove. Photo by the Puglia Guys.

A mellow misty morning as the sun is obscured by morning mist, hovering over olive trees in a Puglia olive grove. Photo by the Puglia Guys.

A mellow misty morning as the sun is obscured by morning mist, hovering over olive trees in a Puglia olive grove. Photo by the Puglia Guys.

A mellow misty morning as the sun is obscured by morning mist, hovering over olive trees in a Puglia olive grove. Photo by the Puglia Guys.

It’s a mellow misty morning at our Puglia Guys countryside HQ, as the sun hovers over the olive trees.

#Spring #Seasons #TravelSky

05.03.2026 06:00 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Thanks to a French reader for sending this. The Puglia Guys, “sans doute” the most comprehensive (?) resource [for Puglia].

BUT - in English!

#ItalyTravel #TravelAddicts #GeminiAI

04.03.2026 19:09 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Is there the wet plimsoll perfect pairing with negroamaro this time? We clicked to look, but the recommendations are hidden behind a paywall subscription service - we are left anticipating

04.03.2026 18:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We might just have time travelled!

04.03.2026 16:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spotted on the streets of Taranto. Some street art featuring one of us. And it wasn’t even put there by one of us.

Taranto - Città Vecchia - Borgo

#Puglia #PugliaGuys #StreetArt

04.03.2026 15:33 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Bari Vecchia Walking Tour and City Guide - Part 2 Podcast Episode · The Puglia Podcast · 4 March · 34m

New Puglia Podcast episode.

Bari Vecchia walking guide part 2 - As you explore Bari Vecchia we encourage you to take in its everyday architecture. The street food traditions. The devotional details. The way space is shared.

#Italy #TravelAddicts #TravelSky

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04.03.2026 05:58 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0