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Sep 9, 2026
Scott MaxwellHOST
Puglia is none of these things.
Scott MaxwellHOST
Puglia is an entire Italian region, running roughly 400 kilometres, that's about 250 miles, from the Gargano promontory in the north down to Santa Maria dell'Iuca, at the very tip of its heel.
Scott MaxwellHOST
Now for scale, that's a longer drive than New York to Boston, which comes in, as I understand it, around 215 miles.
Scott MaxwellHOST
So Northern Puglia to its southern point involves genuinely more road than the classic American northeast half-day trip most readers will have done themselves.
Scott MaxwellHOST
It looks like a fast direct route on a map, but it can slow dramatically in peak season, turning what GPS estimates as an hour into something closer to two.
Scott MaxwellHOST
This is precisely why the smart bases thinking, something I'll come on to in the itinerary section in this episode, matters as much as it does.
Scott MaxwellHOST
The mistake isn't wanting to see a lot of Puglia, it's assuming the whole region operates on Amalfi Coast distances and building an itinerary that tries to touch the Gargano, the Itria Valley and deep inside Salento in a single week from one hotel or from multi-stops.
Scott MaxwellHOST
The complaint that follows the distances were so much bigger than we expected is really a complaint about the planning assumption, not about Puglia itself.
Paola BacchiaGUEST
And I researched things like I looked for slow food prosidiums, like the salt mines of Charnia, which is near, is in Emilia-Romagna.
Paola BacchiaGUEST
the citrus fruits in the Gargano, which is part of Puglia.
Paola BacchiaGUEST
And so I'd done quite a bit of research in that.
MelHOST
Can you tell me... out of all the travel you've done in Italy and around Europe, is there a place, a meal or a moment
Paola BacchiaGUEST
It was, it was so special.
Paola BacchiaGUEST
I'd stay a week in a place that I wanted to research really well, and I researched things like I looked for slow food presidiums, like the salt mines of, um, of Cervia, which is near, uh, is in Emilia-Romagna, the citrus fruits in, um, the Gargano, which is part of Puglia, and so I'd done quite a bit of, of research in that.
MelHOST
Can you tell me- Out of all the travel you've done in Italy and around Europe, is there a place, a meal, or a moment that's a core memory for you?
Paola BacchiaGUEST
There are, yeah, there are a lot of, um-
Joseph WalkerGUEST
But that is another place.
Joseph WalkerGUEST
I also like places like on the Gargano Peninsula in northern Puglia.
Joseph WalkerGUEST
There's the grotto of the Archangel Michael, where the archangel appeared, according to Local lore, at least two times.
Joseph WalkerGUEST
That place became so famous, it was one of the most visited places for pilgrims in the Middle Ages, especially for the Crusader period.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's also island gigantism.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's another wonderful story of that in the book on the island of Gargano.
Edward CutlerGUEST
But dwarfism, when a giant animal finds itself marooned on an island with different resources and things like that, then evolution changes.
Edward CutlerGUEST
kicks in and succeeding generations get smaller in response to their new surroundings.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's also island gigantism.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's another wonderful story of that in the book on the island of Gargano.
Edward CutlerGUEST
But dwarfism, when a giant animal finds itself marooned on an island with different resources and things like that, then evolution dies.
Edward CutlerGUEST
kicks in and succeeding generations get smaller in response to their new surroundings.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's also island gigantism.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's another wonderful story of that in the book on the island of Gargano.
Edward CutlerGUEST
But dwarfism, when a giant animal finds itself marooned on an island with different resources and things like that, then evolution changes.
Edward CutlerGUEST
kicks in and succeeding generations get smaller in response to their new surroundings.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's also island gigantism.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's another wonderful story of that in the book on the island of Gargano.
Edward CutlerGUEST
But dwarfism, when a giant animal finds itself marooned on an island with different resources and things like that, then evolution changes.
Edward CutlerGUEST
kicks in and succeeding generations get smaller in response to their new surroundings.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's also island gigantism.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's another wonderful story of that in the book on the island of Gargano.
Edward CutlerGUEST
But dwarfism, when a giant animal finds itself marooned on an island with different resources and things like that, then evolution dies.
Edward CutlerGUEST
kicks in and succeeding generations get smaller in response to their new surroundings.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's also island gigantism.
Edward CutlerGUEST
There's another wonderful story of that in the book on the island of Gargano.
Edward CutlerGUEST
But dwarfism, when a giant animal finds itself marooned on an island with different resources and things like that, then evolution dies.
Edward CutlerGUEST
kicks in and succeeding generations get smaller in response to their new surroundings.
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