Salento, is a spur of land between two seas in the middle of the Mediterranean, posing a challenge that olive groves, grape vines, and expanses of grain conquered in the time of the Greeks and Romans, where the Mesopotamians had already chosen to shelter between the plains and hills in view of the sea.

Salento is at the end of Italy, in the land of Puglia, between Lecce, Otranto, Leuca and Porto Cesareo, a required designation for refined travelers who are lovers of culture and buon vivere. The sea is exciting here, with beaches spread on dunes below ancient towers that guarded the coast from the incursions of pirates and Saracens, and broad shining coves framed between cliffs and reefs. The countryside is presided over by hundred-year-old olive trees and dry stone walls that surrounded ancient manor farms and framed Medieval abbeys. The cities tell the ancient history of Salento, from the primitive times of the arrival of the Mesopotamians until the liberation in the tenth century through the theatres of the Magna Grecia, the Roman consular roads, Norman castles, Byzantine abbeys, the Baroque era of the viceroys and the art deco villas and theatres.

Lecce is the capital of Salento and the Baroque era: strolling through the charming streets of the historic center, under an exultant jubilation of cherubs, angels, masks and various decorations are glimpsed the elegant proportions of palazzos, churches and piazzas that are among the most beautiful in Italy.