As Ciro himself told me: Cassano is not near the sea, it's not Bari, it's not Lecce... But from there we could go to all these places, Cassano is not for tourists, but there's life there: there was the village's fiesta the last 4 days of our stay. We chose his house for the "family touch", and we liked spending some time there as much as roaming around in Apulia to get a good sense of how people live there. Thanks to Ciro's advice, I think we went to all the right places.