The High Murge Backroads Itinerary 2026: Exploring Puglia’s Stone Canyons Far From the Sea Crowds The Alta Murgia — Apulia’s elevated limestone plateau — harbours a Puglia most visitors never see: ancient ravines plunging forty metres through chalky rock, cave churches frescoed by Byzantine hermits, a UNESCO-inscribed octagonal castle, and […]
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Subterranean Sanctuaries: The Iconographic Spatial Layout of Rock-Cut Caves in Gravina in Puglia Carved directly into the tufa limestone walls of a deep, cypress-lined gorge in the heart of the Alta Murgia plateau, the rupestrian sanctuaries of Gravina in Puglia constitute one of southern Italy’s most extraordinary concentrations of rock-cut […]
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