Autumn is the ideal time to slow down, switch off and take a break. It is also perfect for remote working and slow tourism.
Reconnect with your inner rhythm, between walks and trekking and synchronized with the rhythm of Nature.
Tourists often have the perception that Salento is a slow land all year round, but living an authentic tourism you will discover that autumn is the only season in which it slows down, following the rhythm of the Sun, flowing with wine and olive oil, in a dance accompanied by evocative notes. Salento in autumn, a mild season full of typical events, is ideal for those who dream of an eclectic holiday. From country festivals to good food and good wine, to walks in the historic centers. Autumn offers you the opportunity to explore the local wineries and try for the first young wine and new oil. Taste the flavors of autumn, discover the secrets of the typical dishes and immerse yourself in the festive atmosphere of this land, as if you had always lived here.
The Salento’s People love to celebrate the holidays with fairs and markets, enjoying wine and olive oil. In autumn, you can take part in some of the most important fairs of the year and enjoy the weekly markets, but don’t forget to visit the bakeries because it is also the season of vegetable cakes flavored with new oil!
And that’s not all: the most beautiful gift of autumn is some swimming in the sea. In fact, the people from Salento wait impatiently for this season, when the most chaotic tourists are now back, the season is still warm and the sea is all for them. Come and join us!
The alleys of Salento.
Fabrizio Caramagna
Slow but full of life. Silent, but not mute.
The time that stands still to let you pass.
The white, that returns to be show as it is.
Autumn Traveller’s Diary
Events not to be missed in the Salento’s Autumn:
- Festivals of SS. Medici throughout the province (25-27 Sept.)
- Festival of Fucazza in Lequile (26 Sept.)
- St. Michael the Archangel in Castrignano del Capo and Patù (26-29 Sept.)
- Fair of the Madonna delle Rine in Taviano (1 Oct)
- Sagra de Frate Focu (Feast of Saint Frances) in Scorrano (4 Oct)
- Feast of Saint Francis in Lequile, Salice Salentino and Campi Salentina (4 Oct)
- Patron Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary in Gallipoli (8 Oct)
- Sagra te lu paniri de le site (Feast of Pomegranate) in Palmariggi (10 Oct)
- Sagra de la volìa cazzata (Feast of Crushed Olive) in Martano (17 Oct)
- Sagra te lu porcu meu (Feast of meat Pork) in Muro Leccese (18 Oct)
- Fair of San Vito in Ortelle (24 Oct)
- All Saints Fair in Carpignano Salentino (1 Nov)
- Novello Feast (Feast of Young Wine) in Leverano (8 Nov)
- Feast of St. Martin in the villages (11 Nov)
- Alliste’s New Wine Festival (11 Nov)
- Feast of St. Brizio of Winter in Calimera (13 Nov)
- S. Andrea fair in Presicce (30 Nov)
- Focara (Bonfire) di S. Lucia in Sternatia and celebrations in the villages (13 Dec)
A list of thingsto do in Salento’s Autumn:
- Take a hike to the Ciolo
- Admire the olive trees before harvesting
- Try the "focaccia" with local vegetables
- Walking through the villages during the fair
- Enjoy the weekly markets
- Tasting the new wine of various wineries
- Eat the first olives crushed in brine
- Take a stone course in Lecce
- Join musical events on the beach
- Eating in pubs in the centre of Lecce
- Quad biking on the coast
- Taste the new olive oil on different types of puccia
- Eating the last prickly pears
- Swimming in the Ionian and Adriatic sea
- Try the “wrong pizza” in Muro Leccese
- Take a papier-mâché course
- Learning proverbs in Griko
- Eating the famous schiaccina (focaccia bread) at Babilonia restaurant
