Cycling Puglia, a tour for active gourmets

A classic bike tour transformed into an extraordinary gourmet experience, a bicycle trip of Southern Puglia to enjoy the best local food, wine and traditions of this unspoiled corner of Southern Italy.

Discovering a country throughout its finest wine and food its surely one of the most enjoyable way to experience a culture. Apulian culinary heritage offers endless possibility of gastronomical explorations to enjoy and get to know the local culture and tradition in a new, unique and epicurean way.
Our guided or self guided bike and gourmet tours are a marvelous combination of field trips & gastronomic excursions, gourmet meals, hands on cookery lessons & practical demonstrations of how the local dishes are crafted, enriched by guided tasting sessions of selected local products with our expert somelier, chefs and confectioners.

All our biking tours in Puglia will let you enjoy peaceful and leasure rides along back roads (except for some itineraries along the coast), no cars, no smog, just a cycling holiday among ancient olive groves, roman roads and Trulli, rural churches, dolmens and crypts that not all bicycle tours will let you see.

On this trip you will tour southern Puglia cycling trough charming old villages and stone walls, sleeping in luxury Masserie (old farm house) and tasting the best food and wine that Puglia can offer. You will meet the local and understand more about the Apulian culture and heritage. Professional sommeliers, chefs and artisan will follow you in this extraordinary discovery making this tour an unforgettable gourmet experience .

Day 1, 2 & 3 | Valle d'Itria

The valle d'Itria offers suggestive itineraries and views, with green strips of green land with oaks, almonds, carobs and cherries, where the old towns are like white sheets spread out to dry. From here we'll start our marvellous journey through archaeology, history, art and food throughout a land of artists, shepherds, farmers and sailors.

Day 4, 5 | Lecce & Southern Salento
Lecce and its Boroque architecture with the Castles and Palaces that make this region unique and fashinating will astonish your view and delight your sense with the local exquisite delicacies. Leasure walks and rides through old and charming villages, fashinating landscapes, the local food & wine with the people that craft it will doo the rest .

Day 6 & 7 | Otranto & Santa Maria di Leuca
Cristalline water, amazing rocky gardens and eclectic villas, intimate wine tastings and more epicurean adventure will disclose the eastern strip of Italy.

Please ask for a detailed itinerary and program.