sabato 2 febbraio 2013

The history of Apulien: Salento, sea, and traditions

Salento, extreme strip of Italy, is flow throught by Adriatic Sea and by Ionian sea. It is charaterised by a succession of cliffs, beatiful fjords, hidden coves, long, limpid and transparent beaches.
Geographical Salento equivalents to the old Terra d'Otranto which included throughout the province of Lecce, almost all of Brindisi and part of Taranto.

Salento is a natulistic vocational tourstic land that is inclined as few to spread message and different stimulus. It is also capable to bundle with myth and old people's sign, to interest with Mediterranean record, to dazzled with intense and variegated colors of a land burned of the sun and flow through crystal clear sea. Even to tickle one's fancy with majestic works of master gouger and to fancy with unique flavor tasting.

The Apulian southern extreme, called Salento, is a sort of peninsula in the peninsula. The Salento land is a as window on the Mediterranean sea from with we can appreciate transition and stamps of different cultures during the ages: Greek, Latin, Norman, Byzantine, Spanish, Saracenic. It is scattered of little village orbited around medium town as Nardò, Otranto, Gallipoli and Galatina. Refined throbbing heart is Lecce, well-read reality created by ruling class developed with rural estates.

Salento history is strictly set with Oriental culture. Salento in fact is eastest Italian part. The "Faro di Punta Palacia" in Otranto ( Palacia's lighthouse ) is more ester point than Warsaw in Poland.


Who discover Salentoshire, appreciate it for temperate weather condition, glossy sun, blue horizon, crystal clear sea, dreamed drawn coast, Baroque art, "pizzica" sound, healthy natural and real tastes. A mix of art, culture, tourism and tradition that render this land unique for who live in and fantastic for who discover it.

Discover it:

Salento-one.puglia.it
turismodancardi.org
case-vacanza-salento.org

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