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 is not summer time yet, but there are so many occasions to decide and plan a journey choosing Salento region. Appreciated for its beautiful coasts, white sand dunes, crystal-clear waters and wonderful sea beds, the Salentine peninsula is an unique land to be enjoyed during winter as well.
Planning a journey in this period of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Arthur Symons wrote: “Cities are like peoples: they have their own soul and personality. I suppose that the spirit of a city can be revealed just to people who love or hate it intensively.
I have been in several cities did not touch me at all, maybe because of something happened during the way even though, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The “trulli” are buildings characterized by one single unit with a dome-shaped roof, completely made of stone with no clay.
The roofs are composed of horizontal concentric rings of stones that surmount one another vertically, each time becoming smaller than the below one. The last one, is closed using a big stone that it is locally [...]

Easter is coming and seaside areas of Apulia are starting to be prepared for the approaching of the tourist season.
Owners have beginned to take care of their seaside properties: they are settling them inside, they are renewing the garden…everything is ready for the Easter holidays.
This is a good chance to discover or to come back [...]

… There was plenty to investigate, but we left and headed for the Village Vignacastrisi.
There is nothing amazing about the village – it is a typical rural community, except that here history is being reserved. In recent times in communities such as this, the more wealthy have headed off to the main cities to make [...]

The attractive Salento, land full of olive trees and grapes, is located in the south-eastern extremity of the Apulia region in Italy.
The cultural region of Salento includes the entire administrative area of the province of Lecce, large part of the administrative area of Brindisi and part of that of Taranto.
Lecce,city of messapic and roman origins [...]

Villas for rent in Italy represent one of the best holiday bargain available today. Not only is the price reasonable for the lodgings, but they are fairly plentiful so that the vacationer has a wide range of housing accommodations to suit every time of pocketbook and interest.
You may be a family with children who [...]