The 2024 annual summit of G7 leaders will be held here in Puglia between 13-15 June.
The G7 meeting will take place at the luxury resort of Borgo Egnazia on Puglia’s Adriatic coast, less than 30km from Ostuni.
The holiday resort, which is also known for its spaghetti all’assassina – one of Puglia’s most sought after dishes – is popular with celebrities including Madonna, who visited in 2016, 2017 and again in 2021. It was the venue chosen by Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel for their “hush-hush” 2012 wedding.
Italy’s Presidency of the G7
On January 1, 2024, Italy assumed, for the seventh time, the Presidency of the G7: the group that brings together Italy, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The European Union also participates.
In addition to the Puglia Summit, Italy will host 20 ministerial meetings in 2024. The meetings will take place in various Italian cities as part of an organisational commitment that includes a leading role for local institutions in the activities of the G7.
The logo, inspired by Puglia
The core element of the Italian G7 Presidency logo is an ancient olive tree. It is one of the most widespread and iconic trees in the Italian and Mediterranean landscape and is mostly associated with Puglia.
The logo depicts the olive tree in its main features: firm roots emerging from the ground, a knobby trunk, lush foliage and olives. This tree appears as well in the Italian Republic’s emblem, embodying national identity and its projection into the future. The tree is crossed by a blue graphics symbol recalling the Mediterranean Sea, the “middle sea” in which Italy historically and culturally holds a central position and that connects the world’s two great maritime spaces, the Atlantic on one side and the Indo-Pacific on the other. Among the tree’s fronds seven olives are depicted, representing the seven Nations that make up the G7 and cooperate on global challenges.
G7 Leaders’ Summit: a taste of Puglia
G7 leaders have much to look forward to when they visit Puglia this summer.
#EatPuglia
The food will be fantastic. G7 leaders will have the opportunity of tasting Puglia’s best known regional dishes.
Puglia is known as one of Italy’s top foodie destinations. The region’s fertile red soil and climate make Puglia one of Italy’s top durum wheat producers. With the longest coast of Italy’s mainland regions, Puglia is known for its seafood. It is also the top regional producer of Italian olive oil, accounting for almost 40%, and producing Italy’s best tasting and most prized olive oil. Puglia is the top producer of Italian red wines, such as primitivo and negroamaro, and is Italy’s 2nd top regional wine producer.
In addition to spaghetti all’assassina, also known as spaghetti bruciati (burnt spaghetti), Puglia gave the world burrata cheese.
Puglia’s pizzica tradition
Pizzica is the centuries old folk-music from Puglia’s Salento region that still whips up a frenzy all over Italy.
Whether or not G7 leaders will ride with one of Puglia’s 2024 summer travel trends and try the tarantella style dance is not known. But no doubt they will be treated to a display of Puglia’s traditional music that can be seen and heard on the streets of Salento all summer long, from Ostuni to Otranto and beyond!
Trulli Puglia
Known as la terra tra due mari – the land between two seas – Puglia is one of the most diverse regions in Italy.
The region stretches some 400km in length. From Gargano a mountainous and verdant peninsula comprising the spur of Italy’s boot, to Santa Maria di Leuca at the tip of the heel of Italy’s boot, literally land’s end.
To the north, dramatic limestone cliffs plunge into the deep blue of the Adriatic. The expansive Tavoliere, a plain adorned with durum wheat fields around Foggia, transitions southward into the rolling olive groves of the Valle d’Itria, the sprawling vineyards around Manduria, and the prickly pear-lined vistas of the Salento peninsula.
Puglia’s architecture is equally diverse. Discover iconic trulli, whimsical cone-shaped dwellings unique to the region. Ancient masserie, once fortified farmhouses to hold out against Saracen invaders, have been transformed into luxurious boutique hotels. Then there are Puglia’s famous città bianche. White-walled towns sitting atop hillsides whose historic centres, a maze of whitewashed alleys. It is no coincidence that these are reminiscent of Greece. The Salento peninsula was once Magna Grecia, greater Greece. Throughout Salento many towns are still known by their Greek names. Local dialects betray their Greek origins.
Puglia is known for its award winning beaches. Gallipoli’s Punta della Suina regularly tops polls as Italy’s favourite beach and is considered to be one of the best 40 beaches in Europe.
Keep up to date
The official G7 2024 website is coming soon.
