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Jaguar Rental in Bari
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Luxury car rental in Bari with Zeus Prestige is delivered to Bari Airport (BRI), your hotel, the port, or a masseria in the Puglian countryside. Rent or hire a convertible, a supercar, a sports car or a luxury SUV and discover Puglia from the driver's seat. Luxury car hire in Bari puts the cliffs of Polignano, a medieval emperor's castle and the cave city of Matera each within about an hour.
Bari has been a port since before Rome, and in 1087 its sailors carried home the relics of Saint Nicholas, for whom the Basilica di San Nicola was built. The old town, Bari Vecchia, is a knot of white lanes on a peninsula between two harbours, where orecchiette are still shaped by hand at tables in the street. A castle rebuilt by the emperor Frederick II guards the landward side. Beyond it the 19th-century grid begins, with the Teatro Petruzzelli, the shops of Via Sparano, and a promenade that follows the Adriatic for kilometres.
The city eats simply and very well: focaccia topped with tomato, panzerotti fried to order, raw seafood sold from the fishermen's quay beside the old town. Evening is for a walk on the seafront under its iron lamps. Puglia is low, bright and open, with olive trees to the horizon, and its roads are a pleasure for exactly that reason.
Roof down, head southeast along the coast. Polignano a Mare, about 35 kilometres from Bari, is built on limestone cliffs that fall straight into the sea, with a pebble cove wedged between them beneath an old stone bridge. Ten minutes further on, Monopoli has a fortified harbour full of blue fishing boats and a whitewashed old town behind it. The road between the two runs along a low, rocky shore. The air is all salt and sun-warmed stone, and the sudden views down into clear green water give your stomach a small lift. Have lunch by the harbour. The car loafs home in the late light with the roof open and the Adriatic on its right.
A supercar or a sports car has room to stretch on the Murgia. Inland from Bari the land rises to a high limestone plateau of sheep pasture and dry-stone walls, crossed by long, open roads with very little on them. At its centre, about an hour from the city, Castel del Monte stands alone on a hill: an octagonal castle with eight octagonal towers, built for Frederick II around 1240 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1996. Its outline appears on the Italian one-cent coin. The castle slides in and out of view as the road curves toward it, and your pulse picks up each time it returns. Come back through Altamura, a town famous for its bread. Out here, with the horizon wide in every direction, the car finally breathes.
The hour's run to Matera, just over the border in Basilicata, suits a grand tourer or a luxury SUV. The Sassi are two ravines of cave houses, churches and cisterns cut into soft rock, lived in for thousands of years and listed by UNESCO in 1993. Walk down into them in the cool of the morning, find a rock church with Byzantine frescoes, and have lunch on a terrace over the gorge. The road home crosses wheat country under a huge sky. Inside, the cabin is quiet, the seats have kept the sun's warmth, and the car makes short work of the long straights.
Yes. Zeus Prestige delivers luxury hire cars to Bari Airport (BRI), to the port, and to hotels and masserie across the region. Tell us how and when you arrive and the handover is arranged around it.
Yes. Bari Airport (IATA: BRI, ICAO: LIBD) receives private aircraft alongside its airline traffic. Your self-drive hire car is waiting there on arrival.
Choose a convertible for the coast, a supercar or sports car for the open roads of the Murgia, and a luxury SUV or grand tourer for country estates, family trips and longer drives down to the Salento.
Alberobello, the town of trulli, is about 55 kilometres southeast of Bari, roughly an hour by car.
The airport lies roughly 10 kilometres from the centre, to the northwest, a drive of 15 to 20 minutes.
Yes. Polignano, Alberobello, Matera and Castel del Monte are each within about an hour. Ostuni is a little further, Lecce around an hour and three quarters, and Naples about three hours across the Apennines.
Choose from our cabriolets, supercars, sports cars and SUVs, tell us where in Puglia you are staying, and the keys will be ready for your luxury car hire.
An Adriatic port of white lanes and street-made pasta, an hour from Matera and the Murgia
