Eat burrata in Puglia

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

Eat dinner inside a limestone sea cave in Puglia, the Adriatic glowing below your table

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

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

Three thousand years of art, twenty regions of cooking, and a coastline that never quits — Italy is Europe's greatest hits

A city built on water with no cars — gondolas, Byzantine mosaics, and getting happily lost in the back canals

The 50,000-seat amphitheatre where Rome staged its bloodiest spectacles for 2,000 years

Eat properly handmade pasta — egg-rich tagliatelle in the north, bronze-cut durum in the south