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 holding inside, like a case, an infinity of hidden treasures connected to the deep historical roots, a past made up with genuine and simple things as well, lived in Salentine countryside at the shadow of silver foliage of hundred-year-old olive trees. Taste, traditions, fantasy, tales and legends, widespread in folk culture, are the soul of this land.

It is just in popular imagination that it is possible to try to find and know people’s roots. Sirens, princesses, warriors, goblins, spirits and characters from popular tradition represent a real safe, a poem where the history and roots of a strong and proud people resurface. A people by old traditions that has been able to recover and make them strongly live again, aware of the richness to be saved.

A travelfor discovering Salento is to look around with new eyes capturing the whole magic that only an exclusive place like Salento can release.