The first address for Salento, by the people who live here.
Salento is the southern tip of Puglia, the heel of Italy, with the Adriatic on one side and the Ionian on the other. Two hours end to end. Baroque towns in white limestone, olive country between them, and villages where Griko, a Greek dialect, is still spoken.
Online, Salento is thin. Most of what you can find sits on booking sites that have never sent anyone here, ranking places by commission and repeating the same dozen names. The workshops, the kitchens and the ninety-odd smaller towns barely appear at all, and almost nothing is written in English.
So we are writing the territory down ourselves. Not as a booking office with a long list, but as the people who live here. Every house and every business on this site has been visited, and we have met the people behind it. Nobody pays to be listed and nobody pays to rank higher. If a place is here, it is because we would send a friend to it.
We started in Tricase and are working outward across the peninsula, town by town, until all 96 towns of Salento are here. That is slower than filling a database, and it is what makes this the first address for Salento. The site is run from Specchia, by people who live here. You book with us, and we stay with you until you are there.
How it works
Tell us about the trip
Where you are thinking of, roughly when, who is coming and how you like to travel. A few lines are enough; a real person reads them.
A shortlist from people who live here
We search Salento ourselves, town by town, and come back with the few houses we would point a friend towards, chosen for the way you want to travel.
Book with us
Once the house is right, we confirm the dates and take care of the booking. A person in Salento stays with you until you are there.