• 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

Lucera

• Accommodation
• Eating

Just 18km west, within easy reach of Fóggia (regular buses), LUCERA (pronounced Loosh-airer) makes a wonderful and charming introduction to Puglia. A small town with a bright, bustling centre and a lively passeggiata on summer evenings, it was once the capital of the Tavoliere – a thriving Saracen (North African Arab colonizer) hub. Frederick II, having forced the Arabs out of Sicily, resettled 20,000 of them here, on the site of an abandoned Roman town, allowing them complete freedom in religious worship – an almost unheard act of liberalism for the early thirteenth century.