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	<title>Jeff Barrington&#039;s Puglia Connection Blog</title>
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	<description>A place to share Puglia travel stories and ideas, ask questions and get answers. Join us!</description>
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		<title>New president for Brindisi hotel federation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A veteran tourism and hotel industry executive has been elected president of Federalberghi Brindisi, the Brindisi hotel federation. He is Pierangelo Argentieri, director of Tenuta Moreno, a resort property in Mesagne, and the www.palazzovirgilio.it/it/home/, the former Hotel Majestic on Corso Umberto I near the Brindisi train station. Argentieri previously was vice president of the hotel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2011/12/04/new-president-for-brindisi-hotel-federation/</link>
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		<title>Disgusting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In our travels to Puglia, sadly we’ve often seen evidence that people don’t care about the region’s precious heritage and antiquities. We’ve seen beaches and historic sites littered with trash. We’ve also seen graffiti on public buildings, but this is a first. Someone has spray-painted “Ti amo” (“I love you”) on Castel del Monte. This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2011/04/29/disgusting/</link>
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		<title>Puglia Resort on Conde Nast Traveler’s 2011 “Hot List&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Borgo Egnazia, a high-end masseria in Savelletri di Fasano, Brindisi, is featured among the exclusive Conde Nast Traveler’s “Hot List 2011: The Year’s 124 Top New Hotels. The magazine’s editors wrote, “Every hotel in this list won its place the old fashioned way ‒ by earning it. …The hotels share a common standard in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2011/04/23/puglia-resort-on-conde-nast-traveler%e2%80%99s-2011-%e2%80%9chot-list/</link>
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		<title>Business As Usual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is only marginally related to tourism, but it’s an interesting story nonetheless. It seems that just over a year ago, back in December 2009, the carcasses of seven whales were beached along the Gargano coast between Ischitella and Cagnano Varano, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno reports.
Fearing that the hygiene of the public, not to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2011/01/27/business-as-usual/</link>
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		<title>“The Worst of Puglia”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While tourism officials and travel companies are busily promoting “the best of Puglia” to potential visitors, a page on Facebook titled “La Puglia Peggiore” (loosely translated as “The Worst of Puglia”) is compiling information and photos documenting places where, to put it mildly, more work is needed (search for “La Puglia Peggiore” on Facebook.com). Trashed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2011/01/25/%e2%80%9cthe-worst-of-puglia%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Fog Forces Rerouting of Some Puglia Flights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[DEC.21 ‒ Airport officials at Bari-Palese and Brindisi reported today that poor visibility due to fog is causing some commercial airline flights to be diverted to other destinations. Some flights out of Bari-Palese and Brindisi have been delayed.
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		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2010/12/21/fog-forces-rerouting-of-some-puglia-flights/</link>
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		<title>Bodies of American balloonists recovered off Vieste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The bodies of two American balloonists missing since Sept. 29 have been recovered in the Adriatic Sea off the coastal resort of Vieste. The newspaper La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (
www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it
) reports the bodies were found 12 miles off the coast in their balloon’s gondola by the crew of a Manfredonia-based fishing boat. The balloonists, Richard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2010/12/07/bodies-of-american-balloonists-recovered-off-vieste/</link>
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		<title>Puglia Is No. 1 Domestic Summer Tourism Destination</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Puglia is the leading enjoying summer tourism destination among Italians from other regions in 2010, according to the preliminary statistics from the hospitality trade group Federalberghi (http://www.federalberghi.it/). Among Italian summer vacationers who were surveyed, 10.6% are visiting Puglia, compared to 10% a year ago. Following Puglia are Sardinia at 9.7%, up from 9.6% last year, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2010/08/07/puglia-is-no-1-domestic-summer-tourism-destination/</link>
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		<title>Heat Advisory in Puglia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Puglia’s civil protection authorities are alerting visitors and residents that a severe-heat warning is in effect in the region for the next few days. Temperatures are expected to be close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is four to six degrees above normal for this time of year. An area of high pressure from Africa is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2010/07/14/heat-advisory-in-puglia/</link>
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		<title>Puglia’s Historic Watch Towers Are Worth Preserving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dotting the Adriatic and Ionian Sea coastlines of Salento stand a series of interesting structures that deserve more attention than they have been getting ‒ until now, the websites of Il Paese Nuovo and La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno report.
The structures are historic watch towers, some of which are believed to date back to the Normans. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pugliaconnection.com/blog/2010/05/20/puglia%e2%80%99s-historic-watch-towers-are-worth-preserving/</link>
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