September is coming and summer goes on in  Salento. Still another month of sunshine and hot weather; one of the months that, as well as June, offers the best opportunities to discover Salento. Now that August and its confusion are over, beaches become livable again and Salento shows its best side: local people’s kindness and [...]

If you have not yet booked your holiday, take advantage of these special offers to spend July in Salento! TRULLI LE DUE PIETRE in Santa Maria di Leuca from July 23 to 30 only € 480.00 VILLA MEDITERRANEA in Torre Dell’Orso Two-room apartment (sleeping accommodation for 2-4 persons) from July 23 to 30 from 600,00 [...]

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 [...]

On Sunday the 20th February successfully ended in Milan the 2011 edition of BIT, the International Stock Exchange for Tourism. Again this year around 100 thousand people took part to the event, and other participants attended the events of Fuori BIT, the Outside BIT, a wide range of events organized all around the city. 13 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Now you can find on line WWW.TRAVELSALENTO.IT, an up-to-date guide for whom desires to spend a holiday in Salento. The best weekly updated offers for houses, front sea villas and bed & breakfast. Thanks to Travelsalento.it you will know discounts and special offers about the best accommodations in Lecce and the whole Salento area. Furthermore, [...]

Nature, culture, wine and food to enjoy Easter in Salento Easter in Gallipoli Hotel Palazzo del Corso *****L DeLuxe € 90,00 Junior Suite € 100,00 Grand Suite € 120,00 Palazzo Mosco Inn **** Standard Room € 70,00 Luxury Room € 80,00 Price per person per day Experiencing the Holy Week in Gallipoli MASSERIA CORDA DI [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]