Posts Tagged ‘salento’

Easter in Salento

Nature, culture, wine and food to enjoy Easter in Salento
Easter in Gallipoli
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Experiencing the Holy Week in Gallipoli

MASSERIA CORDA DI LANA:
Masseria Corda di Lana is the right place to enjoy total [...]

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Exciting Salento

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 [...]

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Castles of Salento

The history of castles in Salento is connected to the history of the land, objective during centuries of invasion by Turks or Saracens and continuous threats coming from the sea. Built as instrument of defence, they changed in prestige symbols and places where nobility used to live. They are the stronghold of history, the history [...]

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February in Salento

From Brindisi to Capo di Leuca, getting through Gallipoli, Lecce and the small villages of the Salentine peninsula, cheerfulness of the carnival is going to be in full swing! Fancy, colours, music, dancing, fancy dresses, carnival floats and parades go off  from everywhere in Salento, from north to south, from east to west of the [...]

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It’s Carnival time!

It’s fun, confetti and carnival floats time in Salento. Many Salentine villages celebrate the most enjoyable festival of the year with carnival float and costume parades, confetti, fun, music, fancy dress parties, dancing and pure fun. Children, and people in general, crowding the historical centres, watch with joy carnival floats passing, dance the pizzica dancing [...]

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The magic of Salentine land

A fabulous and magic place, the Salento peninsula. A land loved by its inhabitants, Salentine people, which preserve from generations tradition and folklore, two basic elements of Salentine folk culture.
Salento is not just sea, wonderful beaches and sun. It is not a place to be just lived in summer. Salento peninsula is an exclusive land [...]

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Salento of cribs

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 [...]

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Magic New Year’s Eve in Salento

Enjoying Salento area to celebrate the last day of the year and welcome the new 2010 will be an experience not to be missed! Even in this period of the year, Salento can give you so many emotions with its small villages decorated by thousand Christmas lights, a lot of cribs put on open-air theatres [...]

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Special offers for Christmas and New Year holidays in Salento

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;
-          Breakfast;
-          N. 4 dinners [...]

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Discovering Christmas traditions of Salento: the fair of Santa Lucia in Lecce

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 [...]

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The gold of Salento

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 [...]

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French travellers in Salento

That is what Charles Didier wrote about the salentine peninsula, named in the past Terra d’Otranto (Otranto Land), during his travel: “Terra d’Otranto is the most eastern area of the Kingdom of Naples and it represents the heel of the Italian boot-shaped peninsula. It is a miniature Italy. Washed by the Adriatic sea on one [...]

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All Saints’ Day in Salento

Summer, beach, sun, holidays are simply a souvenir warming the first cold weather of the season but desire to travel, find out and enjoy never fades. So, why do not you treat yourself to an out-of-season holiday in Salento area?
The salentine peninsula is not only sea, sun and wind but it is a land can [...]

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The September summer in Salento peninsula.

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 reminds [...]

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August in Salento

Would you like to leave and go on holiday but you do not know where and when? Let’s have a look at our last minute offers to find out the last availabilities in August in the Salentine Peninsula.
Sun, beach, fun, relax: Salento will be surprising with its white and sandy beaches, its cliffs and caves, [...]

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Beach, fun and sun!

Let’s enjoy summer in Salento! You will experience our beaches with the white sand; the crystal clear waters giving to lovers of scuba diving great emotions. Feasts and festivals gladden the Salento nights in every village from the Adriatic to the Ionian coast with the sounds of pizzica and tambourines, and the tasting of local [...]

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Pizzica and summer festivals

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, you [...]

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It’s time to go to the sea!

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 beaches protected [...]

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Salento and its coast

Being a small peninsula surrounded by the Ionian and Adriatic seas, Salento was called in ancient times “Lands between two seas”.
The nature of the area has given beautiful landscapes to this land: long expanses of white sand and crystal clear waters both on the Adriatic coast, such as the wonderful beach of Torre dell’Orso, and [...]

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Spring in Salento Peninsula

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 [...]

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