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Calabria and Puglia 2019

Europe » Italy » Apulia » Cisternino October 28th 2019

Calabria and Puglia (Apulia) 2019 This is our 9th trip to Puglia and Calabria since 2008 and at least 5 visits before that. If you are reading this blog with plans to visit either area, I would suggest that you check my blog entries of 2015 and 2014, where I give detailed addresses, phone numbers and GPS locations for all of the places that we have stayed at. There are also entries dating back to 2009 that include different b&bs as well as the regions of Basilicata and Abruzzo. My blog contains the following titles as well. Calabria, Puglia & Basilicata (2008) Puglia & Abruzzo (2010) Calabria & Puglia (2012) Calabria & Puglia 2013 Calabria & Puglia 2014 ... read more

Calabria and Puglia 2014

Europe » Italy » Apulia » Cisternino October 4th 2014

Torre dell Orso 07

Ursa Major

Calabria and Puglia -- 2014 If you are reading this with a plan to visit Southern Italy, I suggest that you check out the other 3 entries in this blog of our previous trips to, primarily Calabria and Puglia and a bit of Basilicata and Abruzzo. We have been to Puglia and Calabria 7-10 times. Since this is our 4thstraight trip most of the details are in the previous blogs – but there is some new information here. Over the years we have got to know some families and some agriturismos really well so for this year 24 out of our 30 nights were to places that we have visited 2 – 5 times before. On this trip we added 2 new lodgings. This year we were once again able to fly direct from Toronto to ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis...more history

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