Our way of saying Merry Christmas Christmas is already in the air and we would like to wish you a Merry Christmas in our own way. We dedicate this poem to you all: it’s a poem in our dialect of Lecce, so that you would virtually taste Pittule, which are not simple fried little balls [...]

The big day is drawing near: First Year’s Day is just round the corner! The organization frenzy is going on and everybody hopes to spend a special day, full of emotions. We are here to provide some advices to help you to transform this celebration in an exclusive party: New Year’s Day in Lecce for [...]

Salento is becoming  the tip of an ideal island for the exigent tourists this year again. Not only the well-known art and food-wine tours are offered, but also a wide range of events: live concerts, sagre (traditional food fairs), dancehalls, theatre, readings, exhibitions, live Christmas-cribs, firework shows and much more.  On the 14th December, Malika [...]

Despite this period of general crisis, we start sensing the Christmas atmosphere: the first lightings are switched on and the patisseries begin to show the traditional sweets and cakes in their brightly-coloured shop-windows: the classical and delicious Italian handmade Panettone and the local traditional sweets of Lecce: the fish-shaped almond paste cakes and “purceddruzzi”, the [...]

Enjoying Salento in Christmas period means to plunge in a land with deep historical roots: a bewitched land which changes into a big crib. Many are villages in the whole Salento peninsula that come to life wonderful Christmas attractions thanks to the creation and the representation of living cribs, cribs made with papier mâché string [...]

Christmas and New Year holidays in the farmhouses of Salento. The best offers to enjoy your Christmas holidays, stays and New Year’s Eve at one of the Masserie in Salento. MASSERIA PIZZOFALCONE – SUPERSANO Special long weekend from the 4th to the 8th December and Christmas holidays (5 days – 4 nights) including: -          Accommodation; [...]

Christmas time is about to come up and Salento begins to dress up. Traditions, culture and flavours characterize this period, seen as the most cheerful of the year. The city of Lecce, the biggest cities and the small villages of the Salentine peninsula will be lighted by a warm atmosphere thank to illuminations sparkling historical [...]