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Salento is that strip of land that forms the heel of the boot (lo Stivale = Italy). It is located between two wonderful seas: the Ionic (Ovest) and the Adriatic (East). There are more than 250 Km of coast which is at times low and sandy and at times high and indented.
In the oriental part it was a land of conquest with the passing of the Greeks, the Byzantine and the Barberian pirats. The first inhabitants of Salento were the Messaps, famous horse breeders, who arrives from the Illyrian shores.
Salento is a peninsular region belonging to the South-eastern part of Puglia.
Geographically speaking Salento corresponds to the old land of Otranto. It embraces the whole province of Lecce, with 97 villages and 39 small hamlets surrounded by the green of secular olive-yards, tobacco and vineyards. It has white houses, narrow and winding roads where everyone has its own dialect. However in some villages, along the axis linking Ostumi to Taranto, - almost all Brindisi hamlet and Taranto one - Greek is still spoken.
It stretches from the so called 'soglia messapica' to the Cape of Santa Maria di Leuca, between the Gulf of Taranto (Ionic) and the Otranto Canal (Adriatic).
Salento is also famous for its nature; there are exactly 1390 different species of flower plants.
Salento is a peace of land full of history and traditions whose strong points are its natural and architectural beauties, its hospitality, its magic atmosphere, its several wonders to discover, its warm sun, its blue sky, its crystal sea and its dreamlike coast.
