The Silent Geometry of Puglia

Puglia is built from repetition — the same lime-washed wall, the same dome, the same low door repeated down a street until the whole town reads as a single held note.

We spent a week in the Valle d'Itria learning to make orecchiette from a woman who has made them every morning for fifty-one years. She measured nothing. The dough knew what it was doing.

Go in late September, when the heat softens and the olive harvest begins. Rent nothing faster than a bicycle.