Italy’s heel is the real deal! Forget chi-chi Tuscany, down-to-earth Puglia is a proper charmer

The heel of Italy seems to be tip-toeing into stardom. Some have even gone down the ‘Puglia is the new Tuscany’ route, which is misleading. 

What they mean is that you can buy a house with a pool here for what you pay for a broom cupboard near Florence.

Indeed, most true Pugliese regard Tuscany as some far-away land, with its own food, its own wine, its own traditions. And Milan?