Salento Tourism

One hundred and fifty miles of beaches, coves and cliffs, washed by the Adriatic and Ionian Sea, Salento make one of the most attractive destinations for a vacation the whole summer sun and sea.
Fabulous landscapes where nature, still in the wild, it softens the blow to make room for large and small jewels of the baroque city of art or simple farmhouses.
Magical places, where the traces of the past have the appearance of the many caves once inhabited by our ancestors.
These include the Neolithic Grotta dei Cervi (cave of the Bucks), Porto Badisco, one of the most impressive monuments of rock art paintings of Europe, with over 3,000 drawings in ocher and bat guano, Grotta Romanelli, close to Castro, with the first graffiti Puglia by the strong sexual symbolism, and the Grotta Zinzulusa (Cave Zinzulusa), full of stalactites and stalagmites, accessible from the sea and an exciting path.
Inland meet, however, menhirs, dolmens and specchie, which represent one of the most spectacular, but also more mysterious, ancient history of this corner of Puglia.
To enjoy the sea you'll be spoiled for choice.
At the foot of the old town of Castro, immersion in the waters of one of the most beautiful bays in the region.
The stretch of coast from Punta Ristola gives to the Bay of Uluzzo waters by the play of color and unique highlights.
Between Lecce and Otranto meet enchanted small angles, such as the long sandy beach of the Baia dei Turchi (Bay of the Turks), near the oasis of natural lakes Alimini the wide bay of Torre dell'Orso (Tower of the bear), especially popular during the summer months, or quiet creeks near the archaeological site of Roca Vecchia.
Near Gallipoli, the city beautiful, like an island in the sea, with dazzling domes of churches, the medieval town of winding alleys, bastions, castle, palaces and baronial Greek fountain, you can dive in the clear waters of the Bay of Porto Selvaggio, within a large area declared a regional park for its beauty.
Then there is the Greece of Salento, a bag geographical and linguistic, where traces of civilization survive greek-byzantine.
These include the stone of fertility in the church of San Vito di Calimera Hellenic recalling similar rites.
And how to forget the many castles, along with dozens and dozens of coastal watchtowers and fortified farms, are a mighty fortress of Salento.
Besides the manors built and destroyed by the Normans, Swabians, Angevin, Aragonese, Spaniards, Venetians and Saracens meet the budget conscious traveler, a few km away from Lecce, a beautiful walled city of Achaia, the only Renaissance village of southern Italy.
To complete the charming scene could not miss the striking evidence of civilization known by the name of paiare: conical trulli scattered in the countryside, for centuries a refuge for shepherds and farm workers.