Every place in our outskirts, even the smallest and unknown, hides small treasures that won’t fail to pleasantly surprise you and make you exclaim…I will never have thought…surely I will be back…and people always come back to Puglia. There are always dishes you didn’t taste, dances you didn’t go through, something you didn’t have the time to see, a museum, a site, a feast, an event, something to discover…
There is something, a feeling, that takes you inside when you remind the whiteness of the walls, the spaces, the places, the red soil, the dry-stone walls, the olive trees, the sweet wave-like landscape, dotted with small houses…
And still today you seem to hear again, in the distance, sounds mixed to voices, that, in the countryside, in the silence of a summer night, joined your dreams……and then, you want that dream never end……and so, just because holidays are not only sea…you will come to “Northern Salento”.

 

This web-page gives you just a starting point, an idea, an opportunità for a trip or an outing.
These are just our tips about some places in our outskirts, that we think are worth of being visited. Such indications are not exhaustive; they are just an incentive to begin to know the local culture.

 

 

Archaeological sites
 
 
Egnathia - town of the Bronze Age;
 
Maria of Agnano - Delia, Paleolithic period;

 


We are between the Murgia barese and the beginning of Northern Salento, in the middle of two morphologically different areas, both rich in tipical placet and cultural heritage. This lucky geographical position allow to reach other places to see with short car movings.
In fact, you can have a trip to Lecce, the queen of Baroque; Alberobello, with its old town and its trulloes - a very singular circular building with a conic roof made with dry stones-; Ostuni, Ceglie Messapica, Martina Franca, Locorotondo, etc…all places you haven’t to miss for the peculiarity of their old towns (stone-paved little roads, little staircases, arches, narrow winding alleys, local handicrafts, and the typical whiteness of the walls that every tourist can’t forget).

 

 

 

 

 

Churches and castles
 
 
The fifteen-century castle of Carovigno;
 
Ducal castle of Ceglie Messapica;
Cattedrale di Gallipoli  Cattedrale di Otranto  Cattedrale di Altamura
Beauty spots
 
 
The valley of Itria

A whole valley sweetly wavy and spotted by orchards, vineyards, trulloes and farms where olive trees tower above

Land of caves
 
 

Castellana Grotte is known for its caves filing down a few kilometres.

Basilian caves of San Biagio, in the nearby San Vito dei Normanni: frescos dated 1100 after Christ.

Caves of Montevicoli, rich in stalactites and stalagmites.

Zinzulusa Grotte.


Grotte di Castellana Grotte della Zinzulusa  
Natural reserve
 
 
Torre guaceto

Natural state-owned reserve. It’s a 200 hectares wide damp area of great environmental importance, located along the coast. It’s also a place where migratory birds stay to breed.
 

Coast sand dunes in Torre S. Leonardo.

Regional Natural Reserve is a Mediterranean scrub area, with dunes and ponds.

 
 
 
Handicrafts
 
 

Grottaglie, town with a strong pottery tradition and a whole district, the “Quartiere delle Creramiche”, where for ages the local artisans have been working.

 
 
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