• Italy Guide

  • Introduction to Italy
  • Weather
  • Things not to miss
  • Getting around
  • Entry requirements
  • Money
  • Public holidays

• Explore Italy

  • Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta
  • Liguria
  • Lombardy and the lakes
  • Trentino-Alto Adige
  • The Veneto
  • Friuli-Venezia Giulia
  • Emilia-Romagna
  • Tuscany
  • Umbria
  • Marche
  • Lazio
  • Abruzzo and Molise
  • Campania
  • Puglia
  • Basilicata and Calabria
  • Sicily
  • Sardinia

• Cities

  • Bari
    
  • Bologna
    
  • Bolzano (Bozen)
    
  • Florence & the best of Tuscany
    
  • Genoa
    
  • Lecce
    
  • Milan
    
  • Naples
    
  • Pésaro
    
  • Palermo
    
  • Pisa
    
  • Pompeii
    
  • Reggio Calabria
    
  • Rome
    
  • Siena
    
  • Sulmona
    
  • Trieste
    
  • Turin (Torino)
    
  • Udine
    
  • Verona
    
  • Vicenza
    

Italy Guide

Puglia

Fóggia

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• Eating

The Tavoliere's main town, FÓGGIA, looms out of the plain unexpectedly, a fine starting point for exploring northern Puglia and the Gargano promontory, though not an encouraging stop in itself. Although Fóggia flourished under Frederick II, who declared it an imperial residence and built a palace here, the town was devastated in turn by the French in 1528, an earthquake in 1731 and Allied bombs during World War II. Today the city's streets are all reassuringly earthquake-proof, wide and low-built, a modern layout that is handsome enough, but you're going to have to search hard in between the tree-lined boulevards for what is left of the old town.