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Peninsula without outlets between the Adriatic and the Jonio, the Salento is the more southern earth of the Puglia. Lecce, than of it is the capoluogo, one not only distinguishes from the rest of the region but also from the same Salento for its intellectual separation and its aristocratic gentility. Understood them of the pugliese Baroque, "Florence of the Baroque" is called, than it had long life to you between the end of century XVI and first of century XVIII and dressed churches and capricious and fastosi palaces of ornament without to alter the preesistenti rinascimentali structures and even Romanesque like in the Basilica of Croce Saint, in the contiguous Palace of the Government (the former Convent of the Celestini), in the Church of Knows Nicolò and Cataldo to you. The city conserve other monuments and signs more ancient nobility: a messapico Ipogeo of III the century a.C. in the sottosuolo of the garden of Palmieri palace, a Roman Amphitheater in public square Sant' Oronzo, cinquecenteschi rests of the Port of Adrian on the beautifulst beach of Saint Cataldo, doors and palaces.

In order to know the Salento it is necessary to cover two routes leaving from Lecce: one along the "blue Coast salentina" towards Otranto that continues, after the Head, where the Adriatic ends and it is melted with the Jonio, until to Leuca; the other along the "Coast nirentina" on the jonica coast towards Nardò until to Gallipoli.

The centrality of TENUTA VETTI offers to the tourist one immense possibility of routes. The Salento, than in the Angioino-Aragonese tripartition of the Puglia assumed the earth name of Otranto, therefore will be described in its complex before between colorful landscapes of the coastal features in order then to conclude with those inner ones from the profiles undulates to you.

The peninsula salentina boasts two coasts, that one of coastal long Levant adriatic and the that one of placing along the jonico shoreline. The gorges, the cale, the strapiombi, leave the step to exterminate to you run aground them, ideal for the lovers of the calm holiday.

From Cesarea Saint, famous for its thermal structure, but above all for its blue sea, the coastal feature of the province has beginning more extraordinary. Covering in cars the litoranea road, between costoni full of rocks and reefs to peak, pinete and Mediterranean spots it leads us to the doors of I castrate. Here the erosive force of the sea and the passion of the nature have dug coves semisubmergeeed of extraordinary importance acclimatize them. The romantica atmosphere of the coast catches up its maximum levels towards Leuca. The reef can be admired multishapes of Navy of Andrano in order then to arrive to the port of Tricase, gained from a natural insenatura. The coast is sweetened in the feature comprised between Marine Greenhouse and Leuca. In this point it is of obligation to stop itself in the pressed ones of the cinquecentesca Nasparo tower, in territory of Tiggiano. Exceeded the insenatura of Novaglie it is reached the wonderful channel of the Ciolo, one zone of great landscaped and naturalistic interest. If we raise the look we notice that not there is more Italy to cover, because we are joints to Saint Maria di Leuca. On all it dominates the sanctuary of the vergine de Finibus terrae, where second the legend us would have to be brought at least once in the life in order to avoid of recarvisi from dead with the spirit. Just, where the Ristola tip marks the extreme border of Italy, the first tourist route is concluded for we.

To already leave from charming spiagge of Felloniche and San the Gregorio and continuing for tower I go, locality situated to little km to north, we can count on a territory to high tourist receptivity. Going back the coast it is reached in sight of Navy of Blank. Here the contrast between white man of the sand and blue of the Jonio assumes greater importance: We are to Pesculuse, place from the exceptional shadings and lights shaving to the sunset. In long and the narcotic walk on the Lydians of the Jonio, it imprisons to you between the blue of the water and the bushes of dunes, the giant can itself be sighted "that rises on the sea". Draft of a tower to circular base that lever from waters, we are to Tower Poles. To the borders with navy of Ugento it rises lido Navy instead, from the wonderful sabbioso shoreline that specchia in emerald green waters. One of the places in absolute more attends to you from bathing is Truncated Tower. Here in the short feature of scogli emerging it gives back the embezzled space to the sand that extends more to north in order than 8 Km uninterruptedly. Around the cinquecentesca tower of Carl V the second fraction of Ugento rises: Saint Tower Giovanni. The construction from which it takes to the name the bathing locality, in the course of the decades has been transformed in Beacon. Between Truncated Tower and Saint Tower Giovanni, I found them marine assumes special connotations indeed, low depth of waters, calm sea, fine sand.

Part from the inhabited more important and extended center than all the zone of the head of Leuca: Tricase, splendid citizen nearly 18000 inhabitants. It represents a city center of vital importance for the economic equilibrium of all the comprensorio of Leuca. As soon as outside from the lived one, along the way that leads to Tricase Port, the highest nobleman of natural monuments meets itself: the leggendaria "Vallonea Oak", witness survivor of a past delivered to one fragile memory. This tree planted in XII the century, is easy observable since the provincial road passes to little meters of distance. The architecture of Tricase is of difficult interpretation, spontaneous, of varied shape and tipologia, seems not to follow an organic plan. One distinguishes therefore between houses to court and houses to formation. Magnificent the the ' 400 tower of and the contiguous cinquecentesco castle. An ancient door separates to the dominated space from the church Matrix, reconstructed 300 years ago, on the ruins of a tempio of the ' 500. To number Church of Saint Domenico from the Baroque lineamenti, the wonderful Castle of Tutino of XVI the century, that one of Caprarica with four cylindrical towers to the angles and walls to them higher than 6 meters, that one of Depressed, destroyed from the Turks in the 1481 and reconstructed one in 1548, and the primitivo castle of Lucugnano. We move ourselves to North, towards Andrano. The business card of this common one is offered from the evocative castle of the Spinola, before to the town hall, counts more than 400 years. Perhaps E' of 1561 instead the Church of Saint Domenico, characteristic for the clear commistione of several architectonic styles but the more important monument of the country is the Nail head of the Madonna of the Attarico, completely restructured. To the tempio, of quatttrocentesca invoice, particular expression of the local folklore is tied one; the first saturday of August, eve of the Saint patron, is transformed in place of pilgrimage, filling up itself of public in one sacred rustic.

Little more than 5km to north Poggiardo rises that they give the geologic point of view, can be considered one of the first nuclei of litologica formation of all the province. It is not rare to notice numerous phenomena to carsi to us, even if the picture artistic more rilevanete is what it frames the diggings of Immense. Soon the entire zone, strongly archaeological vocation, to the presence of dolmen and rupestri constructions, will re-enter in the within of the naturalistic park that the ancient messapico center of roman age will encircle. But we return po' to south, touching a sky with the Bell tower of Montesano Salentino, crowned from one pregievole cuspid, to guard of the built up Parochial church approximately two centuries ago. To this territory the cult of Saint Donato is by now legacy of which it puts into effect it them tempio was constructed from the architect Francisco Palm in 1775. Continuing Specchia is met, that it rises more on elevated hills of the circondario, dominating the valley. The country boasts thousand illustrious history years. In the historical center we can observe the castle of Risolo, of XVI the century, the rifared parochial church in baroque style in the first years of 1600 and the church of the cappuccini that it rests on an ancient one cripta basiliana, where important are conserved fresco Bizantini. We continue with delicious chiesetta the bizantina of S.Eufemia, the chiesetta ipogea of the Madonna of the Step, the convent of the Black Franciscans, risen beside the most ancient nail head than Saint Caterina, rich precious one frescoes. From Lucugnano is caught up here easy, small fraction of Tricase, famous for the working of terracotta.

This travel begins from Presicce, the city of frantoi the Ipogei. Presicce is really a underground country, its inhabitants in fact lives above a straordianario world. The underground landscape not only entrusts its "trappiti" voice to the fable of its, the antichi oil mills to cove, digs to you from the man, with the characteristic bathtubs and the molazze, heaviest wheels of granito that they served for the molitura of the olives, but is involved also covered of coves, object of numerous and taken care of speleologiche searches. The historical center of the country maintains one characteristic signorile, elegant is the garden hanging of the ducale palace that shows oneself on the public square of the Church Matrix. Of particular interest also the Church and the Convent of the Angels and that one of the Carmine. The museum of the civilization deserves mention also peasant, witness of the local history. To little km Acquarica of the Head, a common one is found that it bases its economy on the primary field, but above all on the working of the giunco, a herbaceous plant that grows in the places marshes and that it is lend to the most varied and fantasiose workings. Continuing one meets Ugento, charming country that hill, characteristic rises on one for its to ollow itself gone up and reductions. Come draft of an ancient one within messiapico that knew moments of great splendor, confirmed from numerous reperti archaeological and artistic equipments to the lice from the several necropoli. The ancient city was enclosed from a powerful town-walls muraia of approximately 5km, that is considered the more imposing than all the messiapici centers salentini, constituted from a row of blocks from the thickness of 6/8 meters. Very to see therefore draft of a fortified city that it introduces still today the characters distinguished you of a time; towers and castles in fact do not escape to the eyes of the fan of history of the art and that one of the simple onlookers. To signal the famous Civic Museum of Paleontology and Archaeology. We move ourselves to Blank, a place where still they remain very written 70000 history years. Who reaches here cannot not visit the Channel of the Fani, a wonderful place where she inhabited the man of Neandertal, first abitatore of the zone. The masseria of Lasi Saint deserves citation, that it rises round to a tower of 1577, on the old road that they give Blank leads to Tower I go. The masseria is an imposing military takeover more plans in which the courts show oneself. In short time it is arrived to Morciano di Leuca. Here a magnificent castle can be visited like fortilizio. The merlons testify the French domination. The main facade dominates the public square. Morciano and Patù the hand is given. This last one is one of common the more small of the province. Our distance us door to Vereto, the powerful messapica city of age previous to the 300 AC. But the characteristic monument of Patù is the megalitica construction of "centopietre", composed from large stone blocks. To little meters of distance it is possible to admire the chiesetta of Saint Giovanni, sobria and imposing.

Castrignano of the Head, along this our distance, constitutes the inhabited center more neighbor to Leuca White woman. Beyond to its strategic position, today it boasts a richest zone of reperti archaeological, the menhir that they stud this territory honor the name of this earth border, still for many aspects incontaminato. Two km more to north, here Gagliano of the Head, flourishing of handicraft activities. This common one rises on the Greenhouse of the Cianci, between highest murge salting some, to 147metri from the sea level. The baroque beauty of the shoreline, the coastal towers, the natural shelters that a time were the houses of our ancestors, where the singular graffiti and reperti the fossil ones can be still observed, and still the merlata and outlined coast from characteristic walls to dry. The plate strongly of Gagliano of the Head but is without doubt the Ciolo, with one seen from brividi. Beyond to the coastal route however it is possible to admire the erected parochial church in XVI the century from Ercole Cassano, one poderosa structure that extension cinquecentesco its finestrone, a more recent bell tower and portale 1696 of cent' years. Not to neglect the communal fractions at all: Saint Dana with the wonderful one cripta of Sant' Apollonia, Basing Arigliano with menhir and the that Saint spirit of 4000 years ago. Moreover the Trinitari fathers guard one rich library of 1600. Some km more to north we find Corsano, a conglomerate of origin bizantina, famous for its cravattifici and the local handicraft. More illustrious monument is the church of Sofia Saint, from the travagliata history. Along provincial Vaste-Leuca Tiggiano rises. Its origin is datable in the medioevale period, during the Angioina domination. The Family of the Serafini-Sauli made to construct in XVII the century the palace of the Barons, more important monument. Of manifest seicentesca matrix tenuous rinascimentali profiles. Behind the palace lever the seicentesca Colombaia Tower and more far away extends a garden antechamber for the forest, a true museum of the Mediterranean spot. Here the shadings, on the higher hill of the Salento, are melted in a connubio indeed special. To remember the church of the Cappuccini of 1628 where extraordinary paintings of sacred figures can be admired. The church that counts greater number of years is but that one of Sant' Antonio, of 1300, to visit.

The Adriatic one leads to us more and more to north where smallest insenature and submergeeed cunicoli push the lovers of the sea to dive themselves in water in order to discover found them spectacular from the spectacular marine fauna of the Tricase feature Port - Marine of Andrano. To north of I castrate we meet some between the coves more notes of the coast south. Between these, the most appreciated from the tourists it is the cove of the Zinzulusa. Here an only show is offered to the visitor, the cove in fact is to ollow itself of stalatti to you and stalagmiti and to lsuo inner svolazzano and dwells true and own colonies of bats. To make the pair with the Zinzulusa it is the Romanelli Cove, with its graffiti paleoliti to us, authentic testimony of the more ancient memory of the Salento. To Cesarea Saint, lì where we have started our exploration of the Head of Leuca, the Adriatic coast offers still splendid panoramas in direction of Otranto where other beauties are introduced, but this however is an other history.