SALENTOTIME


A few clicks to book your tailor vacation in Salento, South of Apulia.

A selection of lodging facilities, located near the Mediterranean Sea, in the Baroque center of Lecce, often called "the Florence of the south", and in Natural Parks, together with services like boat trips, diving, guided tours which allow you to discover the fascinating beauty of the many churches of Lecce, Italian style cuisine classes, health and SPA services, will all ensure that you fully enjoy all the flavours of this ancient land.

Easter in Salento

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Nature, culture, wine and food to enjoy Easter in Salento

Easter in Gallipoli

Hotel Palazzo del Corso *****L

DeLuxe € 90,00

Junior Suite € 100,00

Grand Suite € 120,00

Palazzo Mosco Inn ****

Standard Room € 70,00

Luxury Room € 80,00

Price per person per day

Experiencing the Holy Week in Gallipoli


MASSERIA CORDA DI LANA:

Masseria Corda di Lana is the right place to enjoy total relaxation in roomy and elegant rooms mixing local materials, like lavic flagstone floors and star vaults, with white wood furniture by contemporary design, the restaurant where you can taste lovely typical dishes and a hall equipped with a fireplace for relaxing readings. A large set of massages – ayurvedic, visceral, holistic floral, shiatsu, reflexology – is at disposal for people who desire to regenerate. For sportspeople, there is the tennis court and the possibility to jog among hundred-year-old olive trees.

A great opportunity for walks and trips into the wonderful Salento, with mild weather thick of Salentine spring scents.

5 days/4 nights package

- Arrival on Friday 2 April; dinner in the evening

- Saturday 3 April: Customized Beauty Treatment choosing among ayurvedic, anti-stress and visceral     massage in the morning. In the evening, dinner tasting with wines from a local wine cellar.

- Sunday 4 April: Treatment of holistic floral plantar reflexology; then Easter lunch.

- Monday 5 April: Psyco-body fitness class on the lawn of our olive grove. A tour in Lecce is suggested; on demand it is possible to request a tourist guide. You can choose to have lunch or dinner.

- Departure on Tuesday 6 April

You can choose to reduce the package of 2 or 3 nights.

Package price in room for two people:

- 4 nights in Standard room € 790,00 Junior suite € 870,00 Suite € 975,00 Executive € 1090,00
- 3 nights in Standard room € 640,00 Junior suite € 690,00 Suite € 760,00 Executive € 870,00
-  2 nights in Standard room € 450,00 Junior suite € 490,00 Suite € 530,00 Executive € 630,00

TENUTA MONACELLI AND MASSERIA GIAMPAOLO:

A special offer to know the farmhouse and taste our select restaurant. Enjoying the Salentine countryside and its colours among hundred-year-old olive trees and the red and yellow flowers.

Booking 2 nights plus the Easter and the Easter Monday Lunch, you may benefit of a 5% discount.

Booking 3 nights, you will have a 10% discount.

Discounts are applied to price for rooms and lunches.

TENUTA MONACELLI:

2 nights package for 2 adults in Standard room in B&B + Easter lunch and Easter Monday lunch € 568.00

3 nights package for 2 adults in Standard room in B&B + Easter lunch and Easter Monday lunch € 729.00

Easter Lunch Menu: – Euro 45,00 per person

- Soufflé of little thistles and mozzarella on cold cream cherry tomato soup

- Little macaroni from Avellino with clams

- Little cuts of swordfish with rocket

- Panciotti with aubergines, scamorza cheese on cream Grana cheese soup

- Lamb cooked in the oven with potatoes or medallion of veal by Primitivo di Manduria wine

- Dessert with amaretto

Easter Monday Lunch Menu – Euro 45,00 per person

- Asparagus flan on Mortadella cream soup

- Rettangoli with salmon and dill and scampi cooked according to the way of cooking from Gallipoli
- Pasta with radicchio, smoked ham and smoked cheese

- Mixed grilled meal

- Potatoes with rosemary

- Dessert with rum and chocolate

MASSERIA BANDINO:

Price per person per night including breakfast

Min. 2 nights € 50,00

3 nights € 45,00

More than 3 nights € 42,00

Additional half board dinner € 25,00 per person

Easter lunch € 28,00

Easter Monday lunch € 28,00

The package includes:

- Saturday 03/04 at 4 p.m. guided sightseeing in Otranto – departure from Piazza Castello

- Sunday 04/04 at 6,30 p.m. wine and food tasting approaching to the wonderful world of “Wine” and its matching rules by “L’Astore Masseria” wine cellar in Cutrofiano
- Monday 05/04 at 09 a.m. nature trip – “Walking into the park”*

 WALKING INTO THE PARK

Thanks to professional guides, we offer the possibility to discover our naturalistic Park located south of Otranto in a different way:

 AT WALKING PACE…

Enjoying the regional coastal Park of Otranto – Santa Maria di Leuca, an area of extraordinary landscape beauty representing one of the few examples of high and undamaged coast of Italy. Vegetation is rich in rare endemisms which are in the national “Red List”. The area is also an exceptional phytogeography site because of anfiadriatic species.

BY HORSE…

Additional charges for whom prefers to hike “Walking into the park” on horseback:

€ 18,00 per 1 hour

€ 30,00 per 2 hours.

MASSERIA PANAREO:

Easter and 25th April Package

4 days/3 nights in standard double room including breakfast, welcome drink, 1 day on sailing boat with lunch on board (min. 2 people)  -  € 210 per person

For Easter weekend and 25th April weekend, it is scheduled a sailing boat outing. Departure will be from the port of Otranto, where two experienced skippers will welcome guests to sail to North or South according to the wind, inside the Coastal Park of Otranto – Santa Maria di Leuca. You will get the bay of “Le Orte”, Santa Cesarea and other places. The coast in this area is high and steep, often inaccessible by land, rich in caves and the sea is unbelievably blue. It is a real experience sailing following the coast. You will “have lunch” on board consisting of a light menu with “friselline” (typical local bread) with tomatoes, bread cooked in the stone oven, different kind of fresh cheese, season vegetables, fruits, dried figs and local wine. Return in Otranto will be at 6 p.m.

Exciting Salento

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Salento reconfirms once more one of the most demanded tourist destinations. It is an unquestionable item emerging from the great success of the BIT, the International Tourism Exchange in Milan. Opposing trend with the fall of tourism in the whole Italy because of the economical crisis, tourism blows up in Salento and Apulia. As when you experience Salento, you fall in love with it and you cannot help it.

Salento astonishes for its landscape and architectural beauties; it charms for its sea, its cities of art and its small villages rich in hidden treasures, history, culture and folk; it amazes for its old traditions, making discover the rural and seaside culture of this wonderful land; it touches for its gastronomic delicacies. Salento becomes a travel experience, a real “object of desire” for many tourists do not still know it and it is on the top of the list of destinations to visit. Lecce, the Salentine capital, the Baroque style city, has been declared by Tripadvisor, the biggest community of travellers, the most beautiful town in Apulia, loved by most of tourists for its wonderful architectural beauties and its particular attraction enchanting lots of travellers which choose it like travel destination.

Aimed destination, the Salento area, emphasizing services and tourist facilities, working in a synergetic way together with all operators involved in order to create a single welcoming, hospitality and living fine philosophy, labelled “made in Salento”. So a refined tourism that puts emphasis on the person with his or her needs; a responsible tourism, geared to improve and guard the territory, as it is underlined by the award for a responsible tourism, Premio Turismo Responsabile Italiano 2010, that the province of Lecce has received during the BIT.

A land, the Salento area, which will never stop to astonish and touch.