Before leaving on holiday for Grecia Salentina, we recommend you check the best offers for hotels, bed and breakfasts, agritourisms, farmhouses with swimming pools, residences and apartments for rent in the historic centres of these locations.
In map of the territory of Grecia Salentina it can be noted that the area includes the municipalities of:
Cutrofiano, Sogliano Cavour, Carpignano Salentino, Sternatia, Zollino, Melpignano, Corigliano d'Otranto, Castrignano dei Greci, Martano, Martignano, Soleto, Calimera.
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Grecia Salentina is a Hellenic-speaking area, where Griko is spoken, an ancient language spoken by the inhabitants of this area located in the province of Lecce, in the south of the Puglia region.
In Grecia Salentina there are nine municipalities in the province of Lecce, which are part of this area of the Salento hinterland, and they are:
Here you can breathe a rarefied atmosphere, full of memories of an ancient past rediscovered today, an environment suspended between the Middle Ages and the East; in the courtyards of the houses the old people still play ancient nursery rhymes in Griko.
Thus, alongside the simple but ingenious courtyard houses of Grecia Salentina, we find other monuments and characteristic elements such as the bell towers of the churches, the wells, the public cisterns built to supply the chronic thirst of the Apulian countryside, the superb castles and the baronial palaces.
The farmhouses and farms in this area are very welcoming and offer typical Salento cuisine in their restaurants.
In summer the main event in Salento is the famous Taranta night which has its culmination in Final concert in the center of Melpignano.
But the Notte della Taranta festival is a travelling festival, which does not only include the final concert in Melpignano, but also features many other different evenings, with various groups of Salento folk music in the other various locations of Salento Greece.
In map of Salento Greece you will find these countries:
Carpignano salentino, Sternatia, Zollino, Corigliano d'Otranto, Castrignano dei Greci, Martano, Martignano, Soleto, Cutrofiano, Sogliano Cavour and Calimera.