APULIA TOUR 2016 8
DAYS 7 NIGHTS
€ 1.560
First class Hotels Bari area: Nicotel Bisceglie or similar Alberobello area: Hotel Ramapendula or similar Lecce area: Hotel President or similar
DAY 1: Arrival at Bari airport and private transfer to the hotel. Dinner and overnight stay. DAY 2: Breakfast. Morning guided visit to the Old Town of Bari: the Basilica of Saint Nicholas and its monumental crypt, where the relics of Saint Nicholas are kept, the Romanesque Cathedral of San Sabino and the nineteenth-century “Murat” district. Lunch at your leisure. Departure for the guided excursion to Castel del Monte - Frederick II’s hunting lodge - in the early afternoon. Return to the hotel. Dinner and overnight stay. DAY 3: Breakfast and departure for Matera. Guided tour of the cave districts, a UNESCO Worlds Heritage Site, walking through the old town centre and its narrow streets, admiring the rupestrian churches and the fascinating landscapes on the ravines. Lunch at your leisure. Departure for Valle d’Itria in the afternoon. Accommodation, dinner and overnight stay. DAY 4: Breakfast. Guided walking tour of Alberobello - a UNESCO Worlds Heritage Site, famous for its traditional dry stone huts with a conical roof, known as “Trulli” - and Locorotondo, a lovely circular hilltop town, overlooking the Valle dell’Itria. Lunch at your leisure. In the afternoon, departure for the Salento Peninsula. Arrival in the evening, dinner and overnight stay.
DAY5: Breakfast. Morning visit to the city of Lecce, the capital of the Baroque: Piazza Duomo, the church of Santa Croce, the most significant representation of local Baroque style, The Roman Amphitheatre, Piazza Sant’Oronzo, with one of the columns that once marked the end of the Appian Way. Lunch at your leisure and free afternoon exploring the streets of the inner city. Free dinner and overnight stay. DAY 6: Breakfast. Departure for Otranto: guided tour of the town and of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata, with its floor mosaic dating back to 1163 and representing the Tree of Life. Lunch at your leisure. Transfer to Gallipoli: guided tour of the old town island, connected to the land by a sixteenthcentury bridge. Stop at a winery for a tasting on the way back. Dinner in Lecce and overnight stay. DAY 7: Breakfast. Tour of the Grecìa Salentina (Salentinian Greece, an area in the peninsula of Salento which is inhabited by the Griko people, an ethnic Greek minority in southern Italy who speaks Griko, a variant of Greek), with tasting of olive oil, light lunch and pizzica show (pizzica is a popular Apulian folk dance). “Arrivederci” dinner in a typical restaurant. DAY 8: Breakfast and transfer to Bari airport.
The price includes: • 7 nights with bed & breakfast in first class hotels as per program • Transfers on arrival and departure day from and to Bari airport • Meals as per program
Price per person in double/twin bedded room:
€ 1.560,00 Single room supplement: € 221,00
• Tasting of typical local products where indicated • Tour escort • Motorcoach as per program
Tour Tour Start Date End Date
Price does not include:
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• Tourist tax where due • Drinks with meals • Entrances to parks, monuments and museums (unless otherwise specified in the section “The price includes”) • Porter services • Tips, extras and personal expenses • Anything else not included in section “The price
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