Published on Jan, 2025

We had an amazing and informative day in Bari with our delightful guide Francesco. Francesco is Barese and his love for his city and its history was obvious. We toured Bari Vecchia and learned of its history and saw it as a still vibrant living city. Highlights included a visit to the Basilica di San Nicola, the Cattedrale di San Sabino and ending along the beautiful Lungomare. Francesco gave us a view into Bari and his family's history, so very interesting. Just remember that if you are asked, "Would you like to taste the focaccia?" The answer is always yes. Grazie Mille Francesco.

Published on Dec, 2024

Francesco was a very knowledgeable and excellent guide. The tour made me fall in love with Bari as he provided a comprehensive history of the city through the eyes of a local who loves his home. You will not be disappointed! The tour group was small, only myself and my husband. It was more of a conversation with a local instead of a lecture of facts. You will love this tour!

Published on Dec, 2024

I toured Bari with Francesco; his historical walking tour was excellent. He is a local Barese with an obvious love of the city itself and its history. A three hour tour .. there were many points of interest and quirky stories, time passed so quickly. As the tour was perfect, we also arranged 2 other days to tour out to Matera on one, and Alberobello/Locorotono on another. Walking about in these smaller towns, it is clear that Francesco knows the places to go … knows the locals … and knows the history of these special places. I could not recommend his tours more highly!

Published on Sep, 2024

We arrived in Bari in the morning and had a tour booked with Francesco in the afternoon. Having grown up in Bari, Francesco was very knowledgeable and took us places we would have never seen and explained all the history. Francesco is very friendly and knows all the locals so we get a true sense of of the town.we highly recommend this tour with Francesco.

Published on Sep, 2024

If you are hesitating on booking this tour or any tour with Francesco, don't! Book this tour, you will not regret it. Our only regret was that we didn't realize he did tours of the other areas of Puglia and book him for more of our stay there, we truly wish we had. That being said we did the walking tour in Bari and as a group of friends who travels often and has done more walking tours than I can count, this was one of the best. Francesco had a well mapped out plan for the walking tour. He added history, legend and personal stories that made the tour stand out and made it memorable. He was easy to talk to and ask questions with and allowed for us to feel really comfortable. We still are retelling some of the stories he shared with us. He took us to all the famous spots and then some others we hadn't even known about. On top of the walking tour being truly wonderful, Francesco gave us great spots to great spots to eat all the Bari Specialties. He did this even before we met with an extensive message about must visit spots, then on our walk he pointed out and gave us a few more (spaghetti assassina spot was SO good). To add to his kindness he even gave us spots to see, eat and experience in Alberobello, Matera, Ostuni and Monopoli. We were exploring the region and even though we hadn't booked him for tours in those areas ( we still wish we had) he helped us sort of figure it out on our own. I really do not have enough kind words to say! We really loved this tour, meeting Francesco and hearing his wonderful stories about his Grandma. Do yourself a favor and book his tours!