New paleomagnetic results from 13 sites sampled in Eo-Oligocene autochthonous formations in the extreme South of the Apulian platform in southeastern Italy are presented. They suggest that this region has undergone a clockwise rotation of about 25¿ since the Eo-Oligocene. This rotation is opposite in sense to that obtained from the Cretaceous formations in the Gargano, which has generally been assumed to affect the entire foreland. These new data suggest that the Tertiary structural evolution of this region may be distinct from that of central peninsular Italy and related to that of Northwestern Greece on the other side of the Southern Adriatic Sea. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1988