Puglia, Italy
Lecce audio walking tour
$4.99A self-guided audio tour through Lecce's Roman remains, Baroque churches, carved limestone, and Adriatic defenses.
9 stops · 2.3 km (1.4 mi) · about 115 min
Region · Italy · 5 tours
Audio walking tours in Puglia and Basilicata
The heel of Italy long faced east. Otranto, the easternmost town in the country, looked across a seventy kilometer strait to Byzantium and the Balkans rather than to Rome. Bari spent a thousand years being handed back and forth across the Adriatic and made a saint of the traffic.
The stone tells the rest. Lecce carved its Baroque churches from a pale local limestone that made deep carving possible. Alberobello built an old town of trulli, dry limestone houses laid without mortar so they could be pulled apart before a royal inspector arrived. Over the border in Basilicata, the Sassi of Matera are cave houses cut into a ravine wall, lived in from prehistory and emptied by law in the 1950s.
Each tour takes about 90 to 120 minutes over 8 to 9 stops. Stop 1 of every tour is free to hear before you buy.
Basilicata, Italy
Matera audio walking tour
$4.99Matera's Sassi are two hollows of cave-houses carved into a ravine wall, inhabited from prehistory, emptied by law in the 1950s, and now the first UNESCO World Heritage site in southern Italy.
9 stops · 2.3 km (1.4 mi) · about 120 min
Puglia, Italy
Bari audio walking tour
$4.99Bari spent a thousand years being handed back and forth across the Adriatic — Byzantine capital, Saracen emirate, Norman duchy — and made a saint of the traffic.
9 stops · 2 km (1.2 mi) · about 110 min
Puglia, Italy
Alberobello audio walking tour
$4.99Alberobello's old town is built almost entirely of trulli — conical houses of dry limestone, laid without a drop of mortar.
9 stops · 1.9 km (1.2 mi) · about 95 min
Puglia, Italy
Otranto audio walking tour
$4.99Otranto is the easternmost town in Italy — a whitewashed, walled port that for a thousand years faced Byzantium and the Balkans across a seventy- kilometre strait, not Rome.
8 stops · 1.5 km (0.9 mi) · about 90 min