Fig. 1
From: Making cheese with caprifig sap in Apulia, Italy: possible rebirth of an ancient tradition
Geographical location of Murgia Hills within the European geographical context. Murgia is a calcareous highplain in Southern Italy that extends along about 4000 km2. It is included in the territory of two regions: Apulia and Basilicata. It presents a typical Mediterranean agro-pastoral landscape with rocky grassland and steppic vegetation. In this area, sheep and goat rearing has an ancient tradition, and rural dairies were very common in the past