Rising from the east of Italy, the Salento, in its blending alchemy of the bassa Murgia di Egnazia to Lecce’s territory, has landscaping and geographical peculiarities of an under land open to dialogue towards the Balcans.There you find the Salento, where the greenhouses are touched by the sea.

Shores of unforgettable suggestion and beauty, from the wonderful “white city” of Ostuni, the arabesque profiles to the natural reserve of Cesine, the Alimini lakes - ideal habitat for fishes - to the Porto Cesareo submarine park, the unbounded area of beaches until Capo di Leuca and its stately lighthouse watching over the sailors.

Then you reach the Ionic part of the peninsula, where the rich soil and the warm sun together with the sea climate transform their essence in products of intensive flavour and fascinating tastes.

The Salento and its landscapes - more than hundred small countries with their own little squares and church towers. Each of them has a local cooking tradition and unique and rare dialect.

The Salento of the Art and its monuments and cathedrals tower above the territory, are evidence of great artistic value.Among these terrotories, Lecce has the biggest heritage of works of art and monuments tracing back to a specific cultural epoque; the baroque.

Among the countries, Francavilla Fontana, with its many baroque churches and palaces from the XXVII century represents just a bit of the undoubted artistic and cultural worth in the north of Salento.In addition, Grottaglie - appearing on Taranto Gulf – being well known around the world for its majolica craftsmen, who inherit handing down from generation to generation the art and secrets and history of artistic pottery and ceramics.

Tenuta San Barbato is placed just between Francavilla Fontana and Grottaglie, a wonderful legend of technology and tradition.