Go directly to Monopoli and collect an octopus sandwich and a dose of seafaring culture.
“People ask me if there’s any relation to Monopoly ,” says Eustachio Cazzorla, local journalist and tour guide of Free Walking Tour Italia, as we enter the information centre, once a bustling fish market. A Monopoly board game, the Monopoli edition, sits proudly beside a stack of Puglia travel brochures.
During a walking tour, Cazzorla introduces me to Giuseppe Danese, who ferries tourists on fishing trips and to the more-famous seacliff town of Polignano a Mare on his boat, My Wave. Like most tourism operators here, Danese doesn’t speak English. “The town is still establishing itself for international visitors,” says Cazzorla.
In the past 15 years, Monopoli has shifted to tourism, with fisherman homes now Airbnbs and B&Bs. The main street in the old town once only had three restaurants, explains Cazzorla, as we wander down the now bustling epicurean cobblestone avenue. Surrounding it is a labyrinth of narrow laneways, opening out to ancient squares bathed in that iconic honey-coloured limestone.
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