A Small Guide to Bari

Bari / Puglia · Visited and curated by André

Please find my recommendations for a few wonderful days in and around Bari below.

Look

Bari Vecchia Arco Basso

GO ’26
Walk the narrow streets of the old town and its kitchen is out in the open: women at their doorsteps shaping orecchiette by hand, the little ears drying on wooden boards, made this way for generations and sold to take home.

Porto Antico Bari Vecchia

GO ’26
The old harbour at the edge of the old town; fishing boats, sea air, and Bari opening toward the Adriatic.

Eat

Ristorante Biancofiore Murat

GO ’26
Contemporary Puglian cooking with particular attention to fish and the ingredients of the Adriatic coast.

Beyond

Polignano a Mare Adriatic coast

GO ’26
A whitewashed old town perched on cliffs straight above the Adriatic, a cove wedged between the rocks and sea caves below; also the birthplace of Domenico Modugno, who gave the world “Volare”.

Monopoli Adriatic coast

GO ’26
A working port and whitewashed centro storico just down the coast; fishing boats in the old harbour, a baroque cathedral, and less of a crowd than its famous neighbour.

Alberobello Valle d’Itria

GO ’26
The trulli town; whole districts of conical drystone houses, UNESCO-listed and busy, but those roofs exist nowhere else.

Ostuni Valle d’Itria

GO ’26
La Città Bianca; a hilltop maze of lime-washed lanes inland, with the walls, the whitewash, and olive plains rolling down to the sea.

Matera Basilicata

GO ’26 ◎
Across the border into Basilicata: the Sassi, a labyrinth of cave dwellings and rock churches carved into a ravine and lived in for millennia; cleared in shame in the 1950s, now one of the most extraordinary places in the south.