Salento

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For your holidays in Salento , choose from the best hotels, B&Bs, farmhouses, resorts, historic buildings, holiday homes, and villas. On Salento.it, you'll find carefully selected accommodations in Salento's most popular destinations . Planning a holiday in Puglia is quick and easy: start now and discover all the hotels and offers for your stay!

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Salento.it is the #1 search engine for choosing where to spend your holidays in Salento or its hinterland.

On our online tourism website, you can get advice on where to go in Puglia and also receive a quote for over 1000 seaside tourist facilities in the provinces of Lecce, Brindisi , Taranto , and throughout Puglia.

Choosing where to stay for your holidays in Salento is really simple: just fill out the various forms for free and you will receive the holiday quotes conveniently via email, together with the direct telephone number of the accommodation facility.

Where to stay to visit Salento?

For your holidays in Salento , we suggest a strategic place to stay starting from Lecce.

In particular, here we give you useful information on where to go in Salento, with children, as a couple, or if you want to choose where to stay, you can find the best tourist offers, also convenient for the nightlife for young people.

Lecce is the capital of the Salento peninsula and is the ideal place to spend a weekend in Salento.

In the evening, it is pleasant to stroll through the historic center, stay in the typical B&Bs and hotels , discover the local craftsmanship while admiring the baroque style of Lecce in its monuments.

Adriatic coast of Salento (Puglia): what to see?

First, we continue along the Adriatic coast from San Foca to Torre dell'Orso , where for lunch, on the characteristic docks directly overlooking the sea, you can enjoy delicious, freshly caught fish with sea urchins.

Then, you arrive in Otranto where it is recommended to visit the Castle, the Cathedral and the lighthouse of Punta Palascia, which is the geographically easternmost point of Italy.

First of all, we recommend taking a guided tour of the green Grecia Salentina , where a Griko-speaking community lives and preserves its traditions of Greek-speaking origin.

We continue towards Santa Cesarea Terme and Castro Marina along the Adriatic coast of cliffs.

These locations on the Adriatic Sea are particularly important, as they are famous for the Thermal Baths of Santa Cesarea, the Zinzulusa cave, as well as the important Grotta dei Cervi in ​​Porto Badisco, known as the landing place of Aeneas.

...and furthermore, the magic of the Adriatic Salento continues!

The Adriatic coast slopes southwards with a rocky coastline that passes through Marittima, where we encounter the marvellous inlet of Acquaviva.

Continuing, we meet the marina of Andrano Tricase Porto which allows us to subsequently reach Santa Maria di Leuca.

In conclusion, you will appreciate that this location is the best place to take a boat trip and admire the most beautiful caves of Salento, the majestic promontory with the Basilica, the Sanctuary and the Finibus Terrae lighthouse.

Finally, once we arrive at Capo di Leuca, in the extreme edge of Southern Italy, all we have to do is rent a seaside apartment or a B&B to enjoy a healthy holiday.

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Ionian coast of the Salento peninsula: what to visit?

Meanwhile, going north, from the Ionian coast of Salento, we come across: San Gregorio marina di Patù, Torre Vado and Pescoluse, which are called “ the beaches of the Maldives of Salento ”.

Continuing along this road, you can take a dip in the sea at Torre Pali , Torre Mozza , or Lido Marini ; afterward, you can enjoy the white beaches of the tourist villages along the coast that runs along the Ionian Sea of ​​Puglia.

After that, our itinerary leads the traveler to Torre San Giovanni, which is the main beach of Ugento.

Then, after a few kilometers, you will arrive in Gallipoli , the “beautiful city” where you can spend the night in a hotel and have fun in some of the beach clubs along the coast of Lido Pizzo and Baia Verde, and enjoy the lively summer evenings of Salento nightlife.

And finally, you can reach the marinas of Nardò , in order: Santa Maria al Bagno, Santa Caterina, Sant'Isidoro and Porto Selvaggio.

The Ionian between bays and parks

There are wonderful and panoramic places to visit such as the natural park of Porto Selvaggio and the bay of Uluzzo.

Likewise, a visit to the town of Nardò is highly recommended, where you can visit the baroque monuments, while sipping a glass of good local wine.

Finally, the tourist itinerary of the province of Lecce ends in Punta Prosciutto, Torre Lapillo and Porto Cesareo , places full of seafront resorts, located on sandy beaches, overlooking a crystal-clear sea.

In the evening, the typical fishmongers and restaurants on the coast await tourists who can taste the typical dishes of Salento, combined with a good local wine.

How many days are needed to visit Salento?

Salento is a vast sacred place to visit not only in summer but to enjoy all year round: in fact, every city in the province of Lecce preserves the signs of popular devotion that is identified in the devotion to its own Saint.

Generally, we recommend at least 5 or 7 days to visit Salento.

However, you can choose to stay for a weekend or for 3 days, although, in this case, we recommend booking a B&B in Lecce, and then, renting a car, to move comfortably throughout the Salento peninsula.

At the same time, from the map of Salento , you can understand what to visit in the province of Lecce, and you can also identify all the cities that organize popular events and patronal festivals , which attract visitors from all over the world.

Thus, you will appreciate how each festival enhances its own town, welcoming tourists in its wonderful square.

Tourism in Salento, what to do besides the sea?

First of all, if we want to talk about tourism beyond the sea, we recommend captivating tours and guided visits inland that can be booked online directly with the tour operators who organize these experiences.

In fact, there are various tours that can be booked, including guided itineraries to nature parks, marine protected areas, and many cycling routes that will lead you to interesting cave settlements, mirrors, dolmens, menhirs, and castles in the hinterland.

Similarly, with organized trekking routes, you can also discover the wonderful watchtowers.

To conclude, Salento.it offers its visitors a list of seaside resorts and beaches in Salento , ideal for spending your tourist stay, and we also point out the possibility of renting boats , restaurants , requesting transfers from the airport or the Lecce station , purchasing flights to Brindisi , or saving by choosing the most convenient parking.