"Are we here in Italy at all?" One might ask when looking at all these whitewashed houses with flat roofs full of terraces. But still: this is Italy too. Namely at the very bottom of the heel of the boot in Salento, part of Puglia.

This actually has little in common with the Adriatic and Tuscany. Here there are houses in the Greek style, here there are even people who speak an ancient Greek-influenced recognized minority language and here there is a sea as turquoise and clear as in Greece. But the “dolce far niente” and the food, of course, is the incomparable Italian!

And the apartment La Botte is incomparably beautiful. It is located in a building that used to belong to a monastery complex and the sacredness of these halls with their often high vaulted ceilings and stucco-decorated columns can still be felt today in the newly renovated rooms. Not least probably because there is one or the other antique church furniture among the modern furnishings.

Apart from that, you are surrounded by light-colored walls and original stone floors, old doors and the blue sky above the shady courtyard and the flat roof terrace. The Ionian Sea is only 6 km away and many very interesting sights are also nearby.