Rural tourism in Puglia

Puglia is the ideal destination for experiential tourism in Italy, outside the mass flows that characterize other more wellknown destinations. It is a region known for its naturalistic and landscape beauties and for its food. A land where hospitality is sacred, where everyone is ready to open the door of their home to visitors from all over the world.

With its traditions and with this great sense of welcome, offers activities all year round, tempered by a mild climate.

The consortium company LeStagioni di Ostuni was born a few years ago, which with its homonymous project offers tourist packages and experiences that follow the seasonality of the products of the earth, the traditional uses and the culture that generated them. In all the initiatives, in fact, there are activities thanks to which guests can live like the locals, get to know the artisan shops and small producers of typical food and wine excellence.

The creation of tailor-made packages, which fully reflect the needs of the guest, who immediately becomes the protagonist and an integral part of the territory, in search of the most authentic emotions, of food and wine tours such as the one dedicated to the gold of Puglia (extra virgin olive oil ed. ) www.lestagionidiostuni.it

Tomatoes and preserves, almond, figs, artichokes, wine, dairy products, ancient wood-burning ovens with their sweet and savory delights, walks in the wheat fields and among the vegetables are some of the ingredients of these extraordinary experiences. Land where agriculture is practiced, sustainable, where it is possible to consume a fruit just picked from the tree, where the farmer is happy to tell and explain.

Being hugged means receiving on a psychological level everything we need to live: love, nourishment, warmth and protection. The hug is essential for the survival of the child but it is also essential for that of the adult. People who never receive hugs or who have received few in childhood are unmistakable, it is possible to recognize them among 1000 because of that hard shell they had to build around their soul. When we are not held in the arms of those we love, we experience an atrocious loneliness where the only possible solution is to strengthen our character to be able to do it alone.