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Puglia: Life on the heel. June 2017 National Geographic Traveller
Journalist Julia Buckley has written a marvelous article in NatGeo Traveller last summer, where she mentions Nardò in an original way. Here a quote, thanking her for being mentioned : “…I had thought there’d be little more to Nardò than the baroque architecture that makes it a mini Lecce. But the next morning, Niccolò introduces me to archaeologist Dr Filomena Ranaldo. She tells me about Porto Selvaggio, a nearby natural park whose eight cliffside caves were once home to prehistoric man. Excavations are ongoing and there are plans to open a museum in Nardò showcasing the findings later this year and to run guided tours of one of the caves in 2018. What’s been unearthed so far has been extraordinary. The 45,000-year-old teeth found here point to Porto Selvaggio being the earliest-known home of Homo sapiens in Europe. They weren’t the first to dwell here, though.
The excavations have confirmed that Neanderthals probably lived here as far back as 120,000 years ago. What’s also clear is that this land of canyons and ravines has been inhabited ever since. At Massafra, near Mottola, people still live in cave homes carved out of the limestone…”
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Proud and thankful to be mentioned in Lonely Planet
Proud and thankful to be mentioned in the acknowledgments by the award-winning travel journalist Sarah Barrell in Lonely Planet’s “Italy from the source” – authentic recipes from people that know them best.
Travel guide to…Gourmet Italy
In the Independent, in association with Lonely Planet, Sarah Barrell makes us discover a wonderful gastronomic journey in Italy, givings the honors also to the Salento and it’s “cucina povera”! Independent : “Travel guide to…Gourmet Italy”
Unspoilt Italy: fall head over heel for Puglia’s Salento region
A must read on Salento in The Guardian : “Unspoilt Italy: fall head over heel for Puglia’s Salento region”