Many promotional offers until May in b&b and farmhouses in Lecce and in Salento. We offer 10% discount for a minimum two nights stay in all our accommodations, in April and May 2011. Among the initiatives planned for spring 2011: – In Carlo V Castle, the Chagall’s exhibition “The mind’s sign”: you can admire a [...]

We just have to follow what Shakespeare says: “If thou remember’st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not lov’d”. Valetine’s Day is drawing near … make a lasting gift for your loved: a weekend in Lecce! This weekend just starts with the Shakespeare’s play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Lecce, the so-called Florence of the South, is one of the cities you should visit at least once in your lifetime. The exciting beauty of the salentine capital and its typical Baroque have been highlighted by Lonely Planet, the Australian publishing house of the most famous tourist guides, rating Lecce among the best cities in [...]