by 15Dolcevita Comunanza: being well together, effortlessly.
Painted tombs, a 28,000-year-old story in Lecce, a new way in from Austria. November in the south is for slow walks and long tables.
Under Manduria’s Messapian walls, archaeologists have studied 24 tombs from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. In one, an inscription gives a woman the title “thabara”, read as a priestess, and painted blue and red meanders still line the walls. The readings are preliminary; the slabs may one day be shown in the town’s archaeological museum. The walls are a short walk from Via Verdi.
Source: RTM, 2 November 2026
From Thursday 5 November, at 17:30, the University of Salento’s museum, MuSA, at Via di Valesio 3 in Lecce, shows a burial from the Grotta delle Veneri at Parabita, about 28,000 years old. The skeleton lies as it was found, with deer teeth set in ochre that may have formed a headdress. Texts and audio come in two languages, through QR codes.
Source: ManduriaOggi, 3 November 2026
Libe, Via Ferdinando Donno 27, Manduria. Dinner in the old town, from a kitchen that borrows flavours from around the world; their only dress code, they say, is curiosity. Closed on Wednesdays; from October to May, Sunday lunch too. From Mario’s guide: 15dolcevita.club/guide.
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A walk taken for the pleasure of it, in calm and pleasant places, and also the street that invites it. In Manduria it happens at dusk, around the piazza, with nowhere in particular to be.
Source: Treccani, vocabolario
From 6 to 9 November the Primitivo di Manduria growers’ consortium pours 35 wines at the Merano WineFestival, in the Kurhaus. It arrives with good figures: NielsenIQ data for January to August 2026 show Primitivo di Manduria DOC up 7.5% in value and 11.4% in volume in Italy. The land around 15Dolcevita, travelling north.
Source: G-Pegaso, 3 November 2026
From 29 March 2027 Ryanair links Klagenfurt and Brindisi twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays. Tickets are on sale now. Brindisi is about 50 minutes from our door.
Source: Trm, 4 November 2026
From 18:00 · Ceglie Messapica, L’Opificio di Giuso, Via Porta di Giuso 61. Puglia International’s monthly aperitivo for the international community, open to all. Free entry; drinks paid at the bar. About 40 minutes by car. RSVP
No antiques market is confirmed by its organiser between 5 and 12 November. The next confirmed one:
9:00 to 14:00 · Martina Franca, Centro Fieristico Ortolini. Antiques market. 51 minutes by car. Details
Taranto, Teatro Comunale Fusco. “Rosencrantz e Guildenstern sono morti”. 45 minutes by car. From €20. Details
Nardò, Teatro Comunale. Giobbe Covatta, “70. Riassunto delle puntate precedenti”. 41 minutes by car. Details
Afternoon · Nardò, Teatro Comunale. “Cielo” by Koreja and Babilonia Teatri. 41 minutes by car. Details
About 45 minutes away, it has a Chiocciola in Slow Food’s Osterie d’Italia 2027, one of 26 in Puglia.
Sources: Scatti di Gusto, 19 October 2026 · Dissapore, 19 October 2026
Episode eight of the diary: “You build with the people you eat with”.
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Landing at Brindisi? City bus line AP runs from the airport to Brindisi railway station about every 30 minutes, every day from 5:00 to 00:15. It takes 10 to 15 minutes and a single ticket costs €1.10, sold at the airport’s Bar Gelateria Sandrino. By car, Manduria is about 50 minutes away.
Source: STP Brindisi
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