DISCOVER SALENTO
Salento is a land of sun, sea, and wind. A land of nature, a magnificent place where local people’s hospitality blends in with a conscious tourism and respectful of traditions.
Who wants Salento, wants to live a dream: giant olive trees, from the great twisted trunks that tell of distant epochs, which do not exist any longer.
Huge masserie and pajare, that once housed peasants, factors and agricultural tools, today have a new life and a new splendor. They are structures of great charm that welcome a tourism that is rich, curious and never bored.
The sea. The Ionian and the Adriatic that meet and embrace at Ristola tip, a symbolic place of Santa Maria di Leuca. And you can see this embrace with bare eyes and you can feel it with the heart.
The incredibly long and spacious Lidi from the Maldives of Salento, up to Porto Cesareo with Punta Prosciutto, passing through the splendid Gallipoli with its fish market and its monuments.
From the Ionian Sea you move toward the Adriatic, passing through Galatina and Maglie, up to Otranto where the elements of the landscape follow one after the other: white houses overlooking the sea, a pavement that tells of centuries of history, the fight against the Ottomans and martyrdom. A tale told in the beautiful Otranto Cathedral, a World Heritage Site for its mosaic floor that tells a beautiful love story between God and his most beautiful creature: the Man.
Otranto is not only culture and art, but it is also the sea. With its rocks and its sandy shores of the Alimini, caressed by the Adriatic sea.
Before leaving, we recommend visiting Specchia, one of the most beautiful medieval villages of Italy and the nearby Presicce … and you cannot miss visiting Lecce, the capital of Baroque.
Leccese stone and carp are the undisputed masters of the scene: finely decorated rosettes, palaces of historical interest, lanes and narrow streets of the suggestive old town.
This is the Salento for us, a land to discover and love.
Articles about Salento and the typicality of our land
Festa della Municeddha: her majesty the snail
The Salento is a magnificent land and reserves for its many tourists and residents, food and wine events of the highest level and long-standing tradition.
Among these, the Festa della Municeddha stands out.
Tables of St. Joseph
The Tavole di San Giuseppe (St Joseph’s Tables) in Giurdignano (and also in other neighbouring towns in Salento and the Terra d’Otranto) are a shining example of how peasant civilisation, faith and devotion to the patron saint of the Holy Family come together in a unicum.
Negroamaro: the famous red wine of Salento.
Negroamaro of the Salento is an excellent Apulian red wine. Listed in the National Register of Vine Varieties since 1970, the name of this red wine from Salento today is and remains the subject of much debate among scholars and historians.
Ciceri e Trìa, Massa di S. Giuseppe or Massa e ciceri: symbolic dish of Salento
Massa e ciceri, Massa di San Giuseppe, Ciceri e Trìa, are different names for this representative dish of traditional Salento cuisine.
Leccese pasticciotto: the recipe for the typical dessert of Salento
Those who come to Salento and those who live there cannot fail to taste a delicacy such as the pasticciotto.
The Salento dessert par excellence, numerous have been its variations over time.
Salento, land of saffron
We are about to reveal a great truth to you: Salento is the land of saffron.
I can already see the holders of historical and culinary knowledge turning up their noses, but this is the reality.
The Pajare: the peasant dwellings of Salento similar to trulli
When driving along the long, hot roads of southern Salento, surrounded by centuries-old olive trees, it is impossible not to notice the stone constructions curiously scattered around the Salento countryside.
Masserias in Salento
They are many, huge, fortified or surrounded by the countryside, small pine and oak forests or cultivated land, the Masserie in Apulia and particularly in Salento, are the true symbol of Salento’s historical rural and cultural heritage.