Salento

Salento is the south-eastern extremity of Italy, a sub-peninsula of the main Italian peninsula, sometimes described as the "heel" of the Italian "boot". It is within the administrative area of Apulia (Puglia).

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The peninsula is also known as Terra di Lecce, and in ancient times was called variously Iapygia, Messapia, Calabria, and Sallentina.

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• Grecìa Salentina
• Lecce
• Otranto

Italy: Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries...

Peninsula: A peninsula is a geographical formation consisting of an extension of land from a larger body, surrounded by water on three sides....

Apulia: Apulia (official Italian name: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its southern portion known as Salento, a peninsula, forms the heel of the Italian "boot." T...