In this edition
No dispatches in today's edition.
Geography & climate
Hot Mediterranean; dry summers, mild winters.
The long flat heel — olive plains, the Salento, the trulli of the Itria valley, two seas.
Economy & culture
Olive oil and agriculture, tourism, the Taranto steelworks, ports, renewable energy.
Trulli and whitewashed towns, the pizzica, a Greek and Norman past, an Adriatic gateway.
Recent headlines from this bureau
- Olive Disease and Italian Oil in the World's Food Press
- The Taranto Steelworks as an EU Environmental Test Case
- Adriatic Migration Routes in the International Coverage