Come and find out Carnival in Salento! We can suggest many offers to enjoy Salento; many ways to discover the Salentine folklore during Carnival period. You could not resist to the overwhelming joyfulness of the Carnival in Salento, where the sounds of pizzica, the carnival folk traditions and the magic of Salento will make you fall in love! And for sweethearts, there are a lot of offers to celebrate romantically your St Valentine’s Day, giving you moments of real romanticism and relax in wonderful luxury dwellings, elegant masserie and B&B. What are you waiting for booking? Salento is just waiting you!

Planning a journey in this period of the year means to leave and discover winter landscapes and backgrounds completely different from summer ones. It means to know traditions, flavours and knowledge connected to an old culture; it means to enjoy the feast and joyfulness of the Salentine carnival with parades of floats and masks linked to old legends and traditions. It means as well to discover the glow of a land and its people in occasion of celebrations for patron saints; to taste winter cooking dishes; to enjoy winter landscapes of desert beaches and countryside; to find out the old slow rhythm of small villages.

It is the ideal moment to treat oneself to downtime dipped into the warm, cosy and genuine atmosphere of masseria and old fashion houses pampering yourself and making you pamper by the genuine hospitality of Salento people who can give you the better side of a wonderful and authentic land.

Carnival in Salento has very old origins and it is so deeply rooted that the whole community is involved in the organization of the famous carnival floats, real work of art made by papier mâché masters. Many Salentine villages, as Aradeo, Casarano, Melendugno, Martignano, Supersano, Vernole, celebrate Carnival with carnival float and costume parades, music and tasting of Salentine typical dishes. But the most famous Carnival is the Carnival in Gallipoli that this year will celebrate the 69^th edition.

An unaltered tradition from years consisting in the organization of wonderful masks, carnival floats will parade along the small streets of the old town of Gallipoli accompanied by music, confetti, dancing and a lot of fun. The traditional mask of “Lu Tidoru” will be, once again this year, among the symbolical masks of Carnival in Gallipoli. It represents Teodoro, a young soldier who came back home from the war to celebrate carnival, but he ate so many sausages he choked to death.

Why do not you come and see Salento during this Carnival time? You will astonish by joy and cheerfulness typical of Salento peninsula, above all in this period of the year; you will find out old carnival traditions; you will be surrounded by a whirl of emotions!