A Halloween night in the cave: the big event at Castellana Grotte

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Halloween 2014 is coming and the big party is almost ready. But what if you join  a different kind of event this year? In a small village of Apulia, in south Italy, called Castellana Grotte, goes on stage a unique show in an incredibly realistic scenery: inside a natural cave.

But not any cave. 3,348 meters long, 122 meters deep, 330 meters above sea level. These are the numbers of the Grottoes of Castellana, one of the most amazing complexes of karst caves in Italy. And if these numbers were not enough to awaken the spirit of adventure that is necessary to delve into this impressive underground world, the 15 million visitors who have explored it since the opening to the public could be enough to whet the curiosity to discover a place that, over the decades, has managed to win travelers from all over the world.

Relax on the beach, give it all in Lecce

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There are so many cities full of art in Italy that it’s impossible to take in consideration all the smaller towns when planning a travel… But if you are looking for a new destination  to discover there’s one that you don’t have to discard. Above all if you are planning to spend good time on the beach in south Italy, far from the renowned Rome, Florence, etc. but still you want to make an excursion to a nice city where there’s a bit more of action at night  than in your relaxing seaside resort… This place is named Lecce. In the south of Puglia, the heel of the boot, Lecce is a city that no one expects.

Italy is so fashion because of its precious heel: Puglia

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Here we go again with our blog’s travel around Italy! We decided to pass over all the Easter weekend in fantastic Apulia region, the heel of the boot! And after the magnificent beaches of its southern side, the two next gadders destinations are an incredible natural spot in the middle of the countryside, Castellana Grotte, and a beach resort in Gargano, the northern part of Apulia, with its romantic caves: Vieste.

Castellana Grotte

Castellana Grotte is a resort on the edge of a karst depression in the Apulian hinterland where there are the famous homonymous caves, the grandest and most beautiful in the whole Italian territory, explored in 1938 for the first time.

Travel to Italy’s boot’s heel, cool like a high fashion brand

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Summer is already in our thoughts. So, after Sardinia, Sicily and Calabria, our next stop in this travel to the discovery of Italy can’t be other than Puglia, to pass through all the southern regions of the Bel Paese, in search of sunny and seductive beaches…

And the boot’s heel offers destinations just as gorgeus as the toe, with pearls like centenary Otranto on the Adriatic sea and lively Gallipoli on the Ionic side.

Gallipoli

The old medieval centre of Gallipoli (meaning ’beautiful town’ in Greek) fills an island in the Ionian Sea and is connected by a bridge to the mainland and modern city.