"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 holiday home La Corte 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 have the freedom to choose between several different lounge areas on different levels surrounded by light walls and original stone floors, old doors and the blue sky over the shady courtyard, the secret citrus garden and the flat roof terraces. The Ionian Sea is only 6 km away and many very interesting sights are also nearby.