The province of Foggia is the northernmost of Puglia and is also known as Capitanata (after the name of a Bizantine official called “catapano”) and Daunia, after the mythical Greek king Daunus.
The Gargano National Park is particularly important for excursions in a natural setting: it is located on the Gargano Cape, not far from San Giovanni Rotondo and the Sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The territory of Foggia also offers the huge Tavoliere plain and the untouched Tremiti islands, an archipelago North of the Gargano characterised by sandy sea bottom and crystal clear water. Foggia is not a tourist center: it is a busy, modern, purposeful city of the plain that makes no effort to be anything other than what it is - and that is what distinguishes it from other, prettier places whose principal purpose is ...well, to attract tourists. This honest, if pedestrian city, is almost a breath of fresh air.