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unusual facts about Puglia



Besana

Initially with almonds from Puglia and Sicily region (Italy) and in the early 60’s with Brazil nuts, Pecan nuts, dried fruit, seeds, pistachios, pine kernels, Macadamia nuts and finally the snack lines.

Bombino

Bombino nero, an Italian wine grape variety grown in Puglia, Basilicata, Lazio and Sardinia

Buffalo mozzarella

In Italy, the cheese is produced in almost all nation using Italian buffalo's milk and type with official name by Government Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP is produced in areas ranging from Rome in Lazio to Paestum near Salerno in Campania, and there are production areas in province of Foggia, Puglia and in Venafro, Molise.

Extra Virginity

Mueller's overview of the modern olive oil industry includes a visit to a Bertolli plant in Inveruno; family growers in Puglia, Cyprus, and California; and the monastery of New Norcia, Western Australia, founded by Spanish monks, which also produces olive oil.

Flavio Gioja

Flavio Gioia's birthplace is alternately given as Amalfi, Positano, Naples, or ultimately, Gioia, a town in Puglia, hence the derivation of the reputed surname.

Francesco Maria Brancaccio

Brancaccio was born on 15 April 1592, the son of Baron Muzio II Brancaccio, viceroy of Puglia and Zenobia.

Francesco Pio Tamburrino

Francesco Pio Tamburrino (born January 6, 1939 in Oppido Lucano) is the current Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Foggia-Bovino, and Vice President of the Episcopal Conference of Puglia, Italy.

Ghironda Festival

It was born in 1995 in Martina Franca with the intention of attracting the attention of the public and tourists to the historical sites of Puglia and facilitate exchanges of traditions, music and art from around the world.

House of Bona

The origins of the family remain largely unclear, but according to the two oldest traditions, they would have originated from Kotor in the Venetian Albania, whereas the second would be sourced from the town of Vieste in Puglia.

Iced coffee

In the Salento region of Puglia, this was perfected by brewing the espresso freshly, adding the desired amount of sugar and finally pouring it in a whiskey glass filled with ice cubes right before being served, known as Caffè in ghiaccio, coffee on the rocks.

Marittima

Located in the lowest part of Salento between Castro, Andrano and Diso, Marittima is about 48 km from Lecce.

There is no definite information on the origins of the town although it is assumed that Marittima was founded or inhabited by the Messapi and that it suffered the same fate as its neighbours, Vaste, Diso and Castro, which were overtaken first by the Romans and then by the Byzantines, the Normans and Angevins.

Mount Çika

On the peaks of Çika mountain there is a magnificent view of the northern Ionian Islands as well as the Italian coast of Puglia (Otranto).

Patience Gray

They embarked on a journey around the Mediterranean to Provence, Carrara, Catalonia, the Greek island of Naxos, and finally southern Italy, where they settled in 1970 in Puglia, in a farmhouse named Spigolizzi.

Rogerius

Rogerius of Apulia, in Italian Ruggero di Puglia, a thirteenth-century churchman who described the Tatar invasions in his work Carmen Miserabile

Rogerius of Apulia

Rogerius of Apulia (also Rogerios; Ruggero di Puglia in Italian) (c. 1205 – 1266) was a medieval Roman Catholic monk and chronicler, born in Torremaggiore, Apulia.

San Pancrazio Airfield

San Pancrazio Airfield is an abandoned World War II military airfield in Italy, which is located approximately 4 km northeast of San Pancrazio Salentino in the province of Brindisi in Puglia,on the south-east Italy coast.

Savoia-Marchetti SM.84

By 10 July 1943 43° Wing, flying from Gioia del Colle, Puglia, was the only unit still flying the SM.84.


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