Below Fasano, on the coast, sleeps Egnazia: the Messapian and Roman city excavated by the sea, its harbour cut into rock and a museum telling two thousand years of Adriatic trade. Above, the Selva di Fasano is the cool hill of Art Nouveau villas where Puglia's gentry have summered for a century.
In between stand the plain's monumental olive trees and the fortified masserie turned into some of Italy's most celebrated resorts. The Zoosafari, among Europe's largest wildlife parks, is the family draw. All ten minutes from Alberobello and Ostuni: a director's position.
Near Fasano
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
