The Apulia or Puglia region of Southern Italy has much to offer artists – a coastline that alternates between glistening limestone precipices and long stretches of sandy beaches, and amazing white towns clinging to dramtic cliffs as well as a fertile interior and the idyllic Valle d’Itria where you’ll find almond and olive groves, vineyards, drystone walls, winding country lanes and conical bee-hive trulli and troglodyte dwellings, pretty hill top villages and beautiful baroque towns. Tourism is still small scale in Southern Italy and in September most visitors will have left, adding to its appeal for artists.
Paint in Southern Italy with Richard Pikesley
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There will be four days with transport to visit different towns in Puglia.
In the heart of trulli country is the lovely town of Locorotondo with its pedestrianized whisper-quiet centre of shimmering white houses with colourful window boxes. This little hill top town is rated one of the most beautiful towns in Italy.
Alberobello is the most visited trulli town in the region, where you’ll find a dense mass of 1500 trulli houses, but there are trulli houses dotted throughout the area.
In the town of Matera you’ll see the troglodyte /semi-rock dwellings known as sassi. The lower town is a labyrinth of tiny white-washed houses and stairways that overlap and overhang one another. There are 130 churches hewn out of the rock in the formidable landscape around Matera, some of which date from 8 BC.
Travel arrangements
Everything is included except lunches and drinks. An accompanying travel escort will be looking after you and all the arrangements. Flights are from London Gatwick to Bari and accommodation is in a very comfortable 4-star hotel on the outskirts of Polignano a Mare with wonderful coastal and town views.
Price per person : £2,995.00
Single supplement: £ 400.00
Number of students : 8 – 12