From the Cretaceous of dinosaurs to the Neolithic of prehistoric men, Salento holds much deeper roots than we can imagine: wonderful, concrete evidence of the evolution of the Earth and the mysteries of human beings. [...]
In the Aeneid, Virgil told of Aeneas' escape from Troy to Salento, but even today the dispute over the precise place of the landing is still open between at least four locations: Otranto, Porto Badisco, [...]
In a small town of just 7,000 souls, one of the biggest festivals in all of southern Italy takes place: an explosion of lights and colours that perfectly embodies the spirit of Salento. ‘On peut [...]
An easily polished limestone rock and the genius of artists such as Giuseppe Zimbalo made possible the existence of urban landscapes that seem to have been sculpted directly from the depths of the abyss: this [...]
La straordinaria eredità del grande Tito Schipa: dal reggae alla pizzica, dal jazz al rock, dall’elettronica al cantautorato, la scena musicale salentina attinge dallThe extraordinary legacy of the great Tito Schipa: from reggae to pizzica, [...]
Not only a riot of Baroque ornaments: the traveler who goes as far as the Salentine capital discovers stories that are also much older, such as that of Lupiae and Rudiae and the writer Quintus [...]
A trip to Salento is more than just discovering a place but a unique opportunity to rethink oneself, as Carmelo Bene argued. The Salento peninsula, the last fragment of the West stretching toward the East, [...]
The popular pizzica dance is now a worldwide phenomenon: but what is really behind the story of the women bitten by the taranta? Salento, a peninsula overlooking the Adriatic and Ionian seas, has always been [...]