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"Peninsula Salentina is the earth most southern of Puglia"

LECCE, that is the chief town of it, distinguishes not only him from the rest of the region but also from the same Salento for his/her intellectual separation and l his/her aristocratic gentleness. Capital of the Baroque pugliese, has called the «Florence of the Baroque one», that had you long life among the end of the century
XVI and first of the century XVIII and it dressed churches and buildings of capricious and pompous ornaments without altering the preexisting Renaissance structures and even Romanesque as in the Basilica of Saint Cross, in the adjoining Building of the Government (the ex Convent of the Celestinis), in the Church of the Saints Nicolò and Cataldo.
The city preserves other monuments and signs more ancient nobility: an Ipogeo messapico of the III century a.C. in the subsoil of the garden of building Palmieri,
Palmers, an Amphitheater Romano in Sant'Oronzo plaza, rests of the I Bring of Adriano on the beautiful beach of St. Cataldo, doors and buildings sixteenth-century

To know the Salento is necessary to cross two itineraries departing from Ruffano: the one along the «blue Coast salentina» toward Otranto which it continues until where the Adriatic ends and melts him with the Jonio to Leuca; the other along the «Coast jonica» up to Gallipoli.

Litoranea Adriatica

Side Adriatic Sea is crossed the coast panning with bluffs to peak on the sea: from thin Ruffano to Otranto and him it goes down down thin al Head of Leuca, passing for Castro's Marina, Porto Badisco, PortoTricase and the bellisimo Bridge of the Ciolo. Otranto is the city of the Eight hundred Martyrs slaughtered by the Turks of Mohammed II in 1480 during the «sack» famous. Near the adriatic coast it appears sparkling of silver the fishy mirror of the Lakes Alimini. On the coast road almost all cut in the rock, they open the harbors of, Otranto, Porto Badisco, Caesarian Saint, actually to the Head of Leuca that divides the two seas. Green stains of pinete alternate him to the beaches, to the rock-cliffs, to the caves. To Porto Badisco it returns to the memory the cry of Acate and the others companions of Enea «Italiam, Italiam», to appear some italic beach according to the story virgilian. To Caesarian Saint the natural thermal baths have wide renown for their therapeutic qualities. The place is picturesque and pleasant. Castro is one of the most suggestive places of the Salento for his/her panoramic position and his/her marinates. In the near, the caves «Romanelli» and «Zinzulusa» they are of great paleontological and tourist importance and the «Cave of the Devil» near Leuca. To the extreme point of the «Boot of ltalia» it is the Head of Saint Maria of Leuca with the Sanctuary of the Madonna «Finibus Terrae» (at the edge of the Terra), incessant destination of pilgrimages according to a Christian legend, the Santa Maria di Leuca is the terrestrial antechamber of the Heaven It rises in the very beautiful and picturesque S. Maria of Leuca placed in the extreme point of Italy (to 110 Kms from the airport in Brindisi) among the Jonio sea and the Adriatico sea








*Adriatic coast road*
Side Ionian Sea. The itinerary from Ruffano to S.Maria Of Leuca up to Gallipoli offers other beauties and other wonder to the tourist. A crown of centers bathing and of sweet beaches on a sea ceruleo and clear it punctuates the ionic coast of the Salento. From Leuca he passes for the harbors of ugento, tower poles, pesculuse, Tower S.Giovanni, Cut-off Tower, Allista, Mancaversa up to Gallipoli The white city of Gallipoli, all surrounded by the sea, deserves really the appellative of «beautiful» that it is in the Greek ètimo, for the position enchanting, for the singleness of his/her monuments (from the Castle Angioino that from the sea it makes good watch to the inhabited area, to the Cathedral of Sant'Agata and to the Hellenic Fountain), for the beauty of the panorama, the shine of the Beach, the fervent industriousness of the inhabitants. In the tortuous lanes of the center and in the candid expanse of his/her houses it makes to foresee the east. Vestigias of prehistoric installations are numerous in the countries of the Salento. «Dolmen» (great blocks of stone) and «Menhir» (raw tomb stele) they are visible in «earth of Otranto» between Giuggianello and Minervino of Lecce.

*Lecce* 45 Km			dafter the first breakfast departure for the visit of Lecce, Baroque City From Ruffano the government one is crossed up to the union on the Leuca-Lecce he continues for the same road until to reach Lecce Denominated Florence of the south for the beauty and the decorative wealth of churches and palaces It visits to Saint Cross and to the Episcopalian Building. Very beautiful the central Places S. Oronzo where the amphitheater is preserved Romano he passes then to the sixteenth-century Building of the Seggio. Museum “The works of the Memory” and some Paper Crushes and of the Press of the Book In the afternoon it visits to the Wine cellars of Leo De Willow Castris Salentino and the tasting on the spot of the wine and of the products of the Firm. Typical lunch salentino in the restaurant of the place or recommended by us. Afternoon evening return to the Bed & Brekfast and ready for an evening among the so many feasts * of the period to discover the tradition and the folklore of the Salento





*Otranto* 28 Km			after the first breakfast departure for the visit of otranto. From Ruffano the government one is crossed up to the union on the Leuca-Lecce he continues for the same road up to the indications for Otranto. Otranto to visit the ancient Strengthened Suburb and the Aragonese Castle and to the cathedral:with floor entirely in 1100 mosaic and a particular chapel of the martyrs that it preserves the bones of eight hundred beheaded that you/they have not wanted to abdicate the Christian faith. We recommend you a bath, to whom prefers the bluffs in the splendid Adriatico sea. Typical lunch salentino in the restaurant of the place or recommended by us. Afternoon evening return to the Bed & Brekfast and ready for an evening among the so many feasts * of the period to discover the tradition and the folklore of the Salento





*S.Cesarea Terme* 45 Km			after the first breakfast departure for the visit to Saint Caesarian Thermal baths From Ruffano the government one is crossed up to the union on the Leuca-Lecce he continues for the same road up to the indications for Otranto to around 8 kms. From Otranto the litorane follows him toward Leuca and to around 5 kms. You reaches Saint Caesarian Thermal baths. Saint Caesarian Thermal baths it is note for his/her Thermal Sources and for the crystalline sea. Not you forget to have the experience of the visit in boat to the "Cave Zinzulusa" with his/her natural caverns on the sea inhabited in prehistoric epoch. We recommend you a bath, to whom prefers the bluffs in the splendid Adriatic sea. Typical lunch salentino in the restaurant of the place or recommended by us. Afternoon evening return to the Bed & Brekfast and ready for an evening among the so many feasts * of the period to discover the tradition and the folklore of the Salento






S.Maria di Leuca 18 Km			after the first breakfast departure for the visit of S.Maria of Leuca aims some puglia It visits to the cathedral on the promontory Iapigeo with the beautiful his/her lighthouse We recommend you a beautiful trip in boat to the discovery of the caves of leuca and to plunge you in the crystalline waters of our sea and to decide whether to make the bath in the Ionian Sea or Adriatic Sea. Typical lunch salentino in the restaurant of the place or recommended by noi. Afternoon evening return to the Bed & Brekfast and ready for an evening among the so many feasts * of the period to discover the tradition and the folklore of the Salento lighthouse


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Gallipoli 18 Km			after the first breakfast departure for the visit of Gallipoli. From Ruffano he passes for The commune of Alezio and him it reaches Gallipoli.To Gallipoli; we advise to cross the roads of the historical center, of oriental influence, with the myriads of roads and little roads that they are projected toward sea. It visits to the Castle Angioino of the XVI century and to the Baroque Cathedral of Sant'Agata. Who wants to relax a good ice cream you/he/she can be tasted on the principal course. We recommend you, a bath to whom prefers the sand, to the outskirts of the country toward Mancaversa green Bay place. Afternoon evening return to the Bed & Brekfast and ready for an evening among the so many feasts * of the period to discover the tradition and the folklore of the Salento