The Focara festival in Novoli is, together with the “Taranta Night”, one of the biggest events in Salento. The focara is an immense, enormous bonfire rising to even 20 meters in height, which, the night of the 16th January, St. Anthony’s day, is burned up with a spectacular fireworks show on the outskirts of Novoli, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Apart from being the month when casks are opened to drink the new wine, November is the month when there is the gathering of olives and the salentine countryside seethes with people. It is a work, of course, but also a tradition, a feast getting together people around olive trees full of fruits: men and [...]

Summer in the Salento peninsula is going on! September is the ideal month to enjoy a relaxing holiday for the “out season” travelers who will visit Salento. After the typical crowd of August, the month of September will give sunny but not so hot days, beaches not so packed and, why not, fun that still [...]

A holiday in Salento from June to September could be the ideal chance to appreciate and enjoy Salento festivals which are played almost every summer night in the whole Salento peninsula. As well as tasting traditional food and the good wine, finding out the typical handmade pieces of pottery or white local stone, pietra leccese, [...]

June is the ideal month to enjoy the sea of Salento Peninsula. You will get pleasure from the sunniest days in the year with a perfect temperature: warm but not hot; the beaches, not so crowded, will be already equipped with everything to offer a comfortable relief from the sun. You will enjoy very large [...]

May, the last month of spring in the northern hemisphere, is the month that leads to summer. Tourists and people of Salento who begin to crowd coastal areas and towns walking around the city centre to discover every hidden corner are delighted by the typical magic white stone, shaped by a lot of sculptors and [...]