Travel without Limits

Bari, Polignano, Castellana Grotte, Alberobello, Taranto, Corfù, Benitses This itinerary was conceived to satisfy the legitimate desire to travel and to get to know each other. In order for the travel to be an inclusive and stimulating experience and for us to enjoy its magic to the full, we have designed a path that is as free from architectural barriers, but rich in cultural stimuli and scenic beauty. This is not a “different” itinerary, but an itinerary for everyone, without any limits, as the title suggests. Bearing this in mind, we have decided to include in the tour that we propose…

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The Writers’ Island

Corfu: Benitses, Kanoni, Kassiopi, Palaiokastritsa, Kalami. The island of Corfu, which has always attracted many travelers due to its natural and artistic beauties, is also one of the most appreciated and described islands by writers. Authors have written a lot on this beautiful Greek island, from Homer – and the identification of Corfu with Scheria, the land of the Phaeacians −, Boccaccio and Shakespeare – who imagined it as the setting of The Tempest – to the twentieth-century writers Cecchi, Romano and Mario Praz, to name but a few. In particular, the brothers Gerald and Lawrence Durrell, who had moved from England…

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Itinerary Of Myths And Heroes

Canosa, Ruvo, Bari, Egnazia, Gravina, Altamura, Taranto, Corfù, Lefkada, Itaca The Itinerary of myths and heroes is a journey that will guide the traveler or reader through the archaeological areas of Puglia, along the Appian Way and its deviationes, between mythological tale and history, following the historical writings of famous authors from the past such as Orazio as well as prestigious contemporary writers like Paolo Rumiz; these travellers have crossed and described this Way. The main stops will be Canosa, Ruvo, Bari, Egnazia, Gravina, Altamura and finally Taranto, one of the most important centres of Magna Graecia, which boasts one of the most…

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The Ionian Islands in Lawrence Durrell’s eyes

Alberobello, Brindisi, Corfu, Lefkada, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Zakynthos In the 1970s, the British poet and writer Lawrence Durrell wrote The Greek Islands, the book on which this itinerary is grounded. It has never been translated into Italian in full, despite the awards won and its publishing success. It is not a common guidebook, but as «The Times» reviewers pointed out, it is a valuable volume, almost as one of the illuminated codices in the Patmos Monastery. It is a travel book written by a traveler who had just lived on the Greek islands and drawn inspiration for some of his literary masterpieces, Bitter…

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Eminent Author Reports

Bari, Polignano, Taranto, Gravina, Massafra, Alberobello, and Martina Franca The itinerary “eminent author reports” winds its way through some of the most beautiful Apulian sites, which can be discovered by the traveler through the words and texts by great twentieth-century writers, poets, and documentary film directors. Documentaries and eminent author reports will accompany the reader or tourist across the towns in the land of Bari and Taranto, with reference to a period when the region was not known to the general public as a tourist destination yet and few people knew the secrets of its beauty and history. It is…

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An Itinerary for Enchanted Travelers

Bari, Alberobello, Massafra, Taranto. Pier Paolo Pasolini went on a journey across Puglia in 1951 and there he wrote a report, published in the Roman newspaper Il Quotidiano in the same year. A more structured publishing project, Le Puglie per il viaggiatore incantato, left unfinished, should have arisen from the notes kept during the journey, which led the writer from Bari to Lower Salento. In this itinerary we suggest the traveler play the role of a modern and enchanted flâneur and penetrate the streets of Apulian towns, as Pier Paolo Pasolini did in 1951 when he got to Bari by train, a town that was…

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The Passion Itinerary

Ruvo, Canosa, Molfetta, Bari, Taranto, Corfu, Lefkada This itinerary was conceived as a journey across Italy and Greece during the evocative Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations. The journey, which develops in Ruvo di Puglia, Canosa, Molfetta, Bari, and Taranto and, in the Ionian Islands – Corfu and Lefkada – will allow the traveler to come into contact with colored processions, Passion plays, culinary customs and old ritual traditions, often between religion, folklore and apotropaic beliefs. The historian Franco Cardini writes: La celebrazione della Pasqua è senza dubbio una delle più antiche della liturgia cristiana […]. Probabilmente già dal I secolo…

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The routes to Arcadia

BARI, CORFU: Pontikonisi, Benitses, ITHACA:Vathy, Anogi Itinerary – The routes to Arcadia This itinerary suggests a journey across Puglia and Ionian Greece following in the footsteps of Lalla Romano and Emilio Cecchi. The title is derived from Cecchi’s travel journal Et in Arcadia ego and Vincenzo Consolo’s essay on Lalla Romano Et in Arcadia Lalla. In Spring 1934 Cecchi had traveled with his son across the Ionian Islands and the Peloponnese, reaching Crete. That experience gave birth to a book published in 1936, whose single chapters had already been published as reportage articles. Greece as perceived by Cecchi is a land where mythological…

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Walking with Sisi

Corfu: Mount Pantokrator, Kanoni, Benitses, Palaiokastritsa, Lakones, Agia Kyriaki, Evropouloi Itinerary – Walking with Sisi In this itinerary we suggest the traveler discover the beauties of Corfu, ideally walking next to Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi, who deeply loved Greece, especially this island where she spent long holidays in search of that inner peace she seemed to miss at the imperial court of Vienna. Princess Sisi, a detail, Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1865 During her stays on the island, the empress loved going on long walks and excursions that the traveler may retrace through the diary pages of her…

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The Pilgrim’s Tales

Canosa, Molfetta, Bari, Mottola, Corfu, Kassiopi Itinerary – The Pilgrim’s Tales In this itinerary the traveler is invited to ideally hold the pilgrim’s staff or, more secularly, to become a wayfarer, in order to go along the Apulian stretch of the road known as Via Francigena in the South or Via Sacra Longobardorum, rich in history, art and culture. Following the route of an old Roman consular road never completely abandoned, the Via Appia-Traiana, we will get to the region’s port towns, which have always been key embarkation points for pilgrims, Crusaders, Templars or merchants who wanted to reach the fabulous East over the…

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Cultural Itinerary of Gregorios Ksenopoulos in Zakynthos

“Among the most prolific writers of this generation was Gregorios Ksenopoulos (1867-1951), from Zakynthos. […] His novels are influenced by realism and naturalism; he also recognized as teachers Balzac and Zola, and even Dickens and Daudet. It is also worth mentioning the great leap that modern Greek literature has made with it from the limited context of the ethographic narrative to the complex urban novel. And again, it is not irrelevant how much Ksenopoulos has been read by a wide audience, thus broadening the general interest in literature. ” Linos Politis, History of Modern Greek Literature, National Bank Cultural Foundation,…

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Cultural Itinerary of Angelos Sikelianos in Lefkada

Angelos Sikelianos (born March 28, 1884, Lefkada, Greece — died June 19, 1951, Athens, Greece), was a Greek lyric poet and playwrighter whose themes include Greek history, religious symbolism, as well as universal harmony. Lefkada 1st Stop: The house of Angelos Sikelianos – Angelos Sikelianos Museum (Cyprus Str. Lefkada 31100 Greece)   Presentation of the Angelos Sikelianos Museum in Lefkada “The Sikelianos house, which houses the homonymous museum, was purchased by the National Bank of Greece in 2009. It was renovated and formed into a pioneering museum space that was delivered to the Municipality of Lefkada and was inaugurated on…

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Cultural Itinerary of Dionysios Solomos in Zakynthos-Italy-Corfu

Dionysios Solomos is the leading poet of the 19th century ionian poetry tradition. He is considered to be the national poet of Greece, as the first two turns of the work of Hymn to Liberty, melodised by Nicholaos Mantzaros, were established in 1865, cf. as the Greek national anthem. Zakynthos 1st Stop: The House of Nicolaos Solomos near the San Marcos square   St. Mark’s Square was once the center of the culture of Zakynthos. During the Venetian occupation, writers, poets, noble and generally influential persons exchanged views in the café that existed inside it. In this square occurred historical events…

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Cultural Itinerary of Konstantinos Theotokis in Corfu

Konstantinos Theotokis (born May 13, 1872, Corfu, Greece—died July 1, 1923, Corfu), Greek novelist of the realist school, whose clear and pure Demotic Greek was flavoured by Corfiote idioms. Theotokis came from an aristocratic family that had fled to Corfu after the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

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