History & culture · Taranto
Taranto History & Culture Food Tours
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About Taranto
Taranto's story is written in Greek columns, Byzantine crypts and fishing boats that still work the Mar Piccolo at dawn — and its food tours let you taste that history rather than just read about it. Hands-on experiences like the Apulia Cooking Class: Learn to Make Orecchiette Pasta in a Trullo tie the region's rural traditions to the table, while the Cooking Class in Apulia with a Local Family in Gioia del Colle puts you inside a Puglian kitchen for an evening of family recipes and conversation.
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Taranto sits on a Greek-founded city with a medieval old town and a working fishing economy, so the best experiences connect what you eat to where it comes from. You might make orecchiette by hand in a trullo, cook with a local family, or see mozzarella pulled fresh on a farm near Ostuni — each one anchored in Puglian tradition rather than a.
