Salento is not you just a place for vacations: If you come to Salento for work, here is a series of coworking spaces to have all the services of an office (and beyond) and to make your local work network. Over the past few years, a number of regional and European calls for the enhancement of the territory and the business growth in Apulia gave way to the emergence of a…
Let’s admit that the typical Salento food is, actually, veg friendly, as we already showed also in this post. In any restaurant you can taste excellent local vegetarian or vegan food even if you are not in a specific vegan/vegetarian restaurant. From Ciceri e tria to fave e cecore, from pasta with turnip tops (in the local variant without anchovy, more common version in Bari) to pittule and so on,…
Let’s get Christmas Markets mania started! From the most traditional to the most “exotic”, fom the Nordic style to Mediterranean cultures, Puglia offers to Christmas markets fans an interesting list of events. We’ll suggest you some of them that can be considered special in terms of tradition, history or characteristics that maked them different from all the other Christmas markets in the world. Corato (BA) If you are in the area…
San Martino is such an important celebration in Salento! We celebrate the new wine, with family or friends, no matter where we are! How do we celebrate San Martino? Does it exist just in Salento? Where these rites come after? Let’s answer all these questions and discover together how San Martino’s celebrations have to do with the Christian rites, the pagan rites, the Celts, the Hungarians, the French, the farmers…
Fires, pumpkins, magicians and wandering souls, moments of recollection and memory, here is where to go to discover the Apulian tradition linked to the night of the passage of souls in two days of commemoration. As throughout Italy and much of Europe, also Puglia has its Halloween night and, for sure, All Saints celebrations. Today we want to suggest you some events held in different parts of Puglia between October…
Every now and then we like making small survival handbooks for those who are about to come to our beloved land. As when we told you about the post about the “10 sentencs not to tell to Apulians“ today we shall make a small list of things that in any other part of Italy have a different meaning than here in Salento. Ronda (in English “patrol”) Wikipedia says that a…
That the art of drinking well and the rites of the wine production are, in Salento, a very serious matter, is something we alredy said and many people already know Read for example Ultimate guide to the best wineries of Puglia Come and join grape harvest in Salento! Now, let’s see in detail the reasons why people of Salento love so much the month of November (so that many of…
Loved and sacred moment for travelers from around the world, but also perfect setting to talk about work and business, the breakfast is a both social and intimate moment everywhere. In Puglia, where the art of confectionery has its goodies and its peculiarities that you won’t find elsewhere and which vary from city to city, breakfast easily becomes an ideal time of cultural discovery and fun, for those who want…
Puglia is one of the Italian region living one of the most magic periods of the year: the grape harvest and the rites associated with this time of great sociability and sharing. Read something about it in the article: Come and join grape harvest in Salento! As we have already said, many wineries in the region open their doors to visitors and wine lovers to share and to involve more…
Between the end of summer (at least from an astronomical point of view) and the beginning of the Christmas decorations, there is an intermediate magic space that should not be underestimated for the pleasantness of a trip. In Apulia, where the half-season is almost an attitude, this is a great time to enjoy the best of some peculiar features of the landscapes and cities, villages and itineraries, thanks to increased climate…