Meet Paolo, your local guide in Puglia

We had a wonderful private walking tour with Paolo in Bari. From the very beginning, he made us feel welcome and immediately brought the city to life with his knowledge, warmth, and humor. Paolo shared so many fascinating stories about Bari’s history, traditions, and daily life, blending historical context with local insights you’d never find in a guidebook. What we especially loved was how personal the experience felt. Paolo tailored the tour to our interests, answered all of our questions, and even pointed out hidden gems we would have easily walked past on our own. His passion was contagious, and by the end we felt not just like visitors, but like friends who had been shown around by a local who truly cares. If you’re visiting Bari and want to go beyond the surface to really understand the culture, history, and soul of the city, we can’t recommend a tour with Paolo highly enough.

We loved our tour of Lecce with Silvia! We learned a lot about the history & culture of Lecce and felt like we’d made a new friend. Thank you for a lovely intro to Puglia!

On time Nice and polite drivers

Our tour contained some interesting history of the town and access to some sights we would otherwise not have seen. Our guide was friendly and knowledgeable, however, was distracted by a family issue and spent a lot of her time checking her phone and attempting to make calls - which made the information provided feel disjointed. We felt our guide was not fully engaged with us and the tour. Repeated comments regarding the negative impact of tourism on locals and the area were excessive- this energy would perhaps have been better directed to enhancing the tour experience.

Paolo was a delight and gave 4 of us an amazing tour and very interesting insight of Matera and its history in an extremely relaxing and fun way. We would love to come back and have Paolo show and tell more about Puglia Absolutely love it and thanks Paolo