Salento Italy

Going on southwards, the Adriatic coast rises and opens in wonderful places: Torre Dell’Orso is a beach with a very thin sand, behind which there is a pine-wood; the two small lakes and the very long beach of Alimini appear unusual and characteristic at the same time in the landscapes dominated by the olive and the almond trees. And here we are in Otranto which can’t be only defined “the door of the east”, but also a “real piece of the East” with its white Cathedral famous for the seven great glass show-cases containing the bones of the Holy Martyrs, murdered in 1480, and for the floor’s mosaic “the tree of Life”.

long the Ionian coast there are beautiful and suggestive landscapes. Then the rocks are replaced by long beaches marked with ancient watch towers ( of the ‘500).