Try cave dining in Italy

A whole town of trulli — conical drystone houses found nowhere else, white and strange in the Puglian sun

Puglia's lively port capital — a tangle of old-town alleys, orecchiette drying in doorways, and San Nicola's bones

The "Florence of the South" — honey-coloured Baroque churches carved from soft Lecce stone

Split open a pouch of mozzarella to spill its molten stracciatella-and-cream centre

Drift by boat beneath a cave ceiling lit by thousands of glowworms.

Waterfall dropping through three natural bridges into a cave shaft.

Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.

Vivid 5,000-year-old cave paintings.