B&B Aira Te Finu Il Salento, In Puglia

Salento, a strip of land between the Ionian Sea and the Adriatic Sea, is one of the most fascinating and characteristic areas of Italy, rich in artistic, natural and natural beauties and today is one of the favorite tourist destinations for Italians and foreigners. The Salento peninsula embraces the areas of Lecce, Brindisi and Taranto, with their small villages rich in folk, gastronomic and cultural traditions.

Salento is a varied landscape, a reality of art, sea, nature, culture and sport. Due to its very particular geographical position Salento has always been subject to countless cultural influences, starting point and arrival to the Far East, Salento is a melting pot of races, faiths and cultures.

For lovers of the sea and nature, Salento offers stretches of white beaches or steep cliffs, olive and vine fields, fields of daisies, sunflowers and poppies. The predominant landscape is the Mediterranean scrub, an expanse of shrubs and aromatic plants that adapt to the karst land. Precisely the calcareous origin of the territory gives origin to the splendid and innumerable caves, that embroider the Adriatic coasts of fantastic laces of rock.

Salento uses and customs are intrinsic to history and tradition, one of the most known cultural aspects is Pizzica, a popular music with a frenetic rhythm, punctuated by expert and passionate drummers, guitars, harmonics and strings.

Pizzica has its roots in the popular belief that the bite of tarantula indemoniasse who was the victim and only the frenetic dance resulting from the frantic rhythm of the tambourines, with the help of San Paolo or San Donato, let out this spirit from the unfortunate.

The musical tradition of Salento is celebrated every year with the "Notte della Taranta", a concert now widespread worldwide that celebrates musical folklore with ballads and popular music.