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The tours we propose at Slow Active Tours are one of the best ways to explore the enchanting places of Southern Italy: discovering the Heel of Italy through a walking hoiliday is a unique opportunity.

Hiking along the Amalfi Coast is one of the most exciting experience that one can do during an Italian holiday.

Puglia is a land which offers typical flavours that can delight every palate; this applies both to the dishes of ancient rural tradition and maritime tradition.

The Via Francigena is a route which dates back to the Middle Ages and connects Canterbury to Puglia: nowadays it allows to live exciting experiences between the sacred and the profane.

Over the centuries, Apulian masserie have represented the main core of farm life and still today they are a symbol of the Apulian rural tradition.

In recent years slow travels have been finally revalued, to discover new places and cultures.

If you are going to visit Sorrento, stay ready to discover a fascinating, polite and elegant city, which offers to the visitors breathtaking panoramas.

Matera is a real jewel, which is absolutely worth a visit. For a while you feel like you are in another era, where everything is still and almost unreal.

The small Apulian town of Acaya is a hamlet of the Municipality of Vernole, around 10 km far away from Lecce. Built in 1500, Acaya is the only example of fortified Renaissance town in South Italy.

One of the most beautiful walks on the south-eastern coast of Puglia photographed by an experienced walker

A Puglia Walking Holiday: pictures from the Salento peninsula.