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Salento,
extreme south-east end of Puglia, is surrounded by two seas,
Adriatic and Ionian, with 250 km of coasts, shores, crystal
clear sea, wonderful breathtaking landscapes. Impressive
cliffs overhanging the sea characterize the Adriatic coastline
between Otranto and Santa Maria di Leuca, the same feature
that we find in Santa Cesarea, famous for its thermal baths;
On the Ionian coast we find Ugento, an ancient Messapic
centre, and Gallipoli, from the greek "Kalé Polis" which means
"beautiful city", made by an ancient town entirely builded
upon an island and a new, modern, city.
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Galatina
Placed in the heart of the Salento, Galatina,
firstly called St. Pietro in Galatina, was probably a Greek
colony... |
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Lecce
It was founded by the messapics toward the half
of the III century a.C., Lecce became a Roman military station
(Lupiae)... |
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Otranto
The city is placed on the oriental extremity of
the salentinian peninsula: crossroad and point of meeting of
so many cultures... |
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Gallipoli
Gallipoli, "the Pearl of the Ionian Sea", appears
in its unique and suggestive atmosphere with its long beaches
full of Mediterranean vegetation... |
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Santa
Cesarea Terme
Santa Cesarea is known
and famous for its thermal and therapeutic waters, it is a
suggestive and amusing town... |
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Leuca
PLeuca represents the extreme point of the heel of
Italy, the land of fusion between Adriatic Sea and Ionian Sea
and between oriental and western cultures... |
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Ugento
It is an ancient messapic centre in the far south
of Salento. In Ugento we can find fun, art, history and
culture... |
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The salentinian kitchen
It's a traditional
kitchen handed down from generation to generation, that
preserves and proposes the taste of the old culinary
art... |
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