Blue sea, beautiful beaches, uncontaminated nature, good food, sun and fun.

It's one of the five regions (the more southern one) which constitute Puglia, jointly Murge, Tavoliere, Appenino Dauno and Gargano. It's the Land of Lecce, spreaded over 2.300 km2. It's the Salento, homeland of art, culture, nature. And it welcome and invite You to discover all the places of this wonderful territory, suspended from the Mediterranean Sea and stretched out East.

In fact, Occidental civilization and oriental magic live together in this suggestive corner of Italy, in that one which is the "heel" of the Stivale. A peninsula in the peninsula, a balcony which leans out of the mediterranean limpid water.

History and art are interwoven between two sea, Jonio and Adriatic, which alternate wild and incontaminated seashores and modern tourist villages, green oasis and pleasant small town where life goes on easely and peacefully and where people's spirit gives a tripper a sincere and exquisite hospitality. From Porto Cesareo to Gallipoli, from Lecce (Capital of the Province) to Nardò, from Otranto to Tricase, from Ugento to Santa Maria di Leuca, towns of Salento offer a very good gastronomy, particular landscape, artistic beauties, fabulous routes, centuries-old traditions and so on. Everything to discover!

It's a land which has been recalled in the literary sea voyage in Odissea and Eneide, has been gone through the centuries by maritime and terrestrial courses, has inherited a great concentration of dolmen, menhir, specchie, nemanthol from the prehistoric civilizations. From the Mycenaeans to the Greeks, from the Romans to the Byzantines, until the Normans and the Spanish.

Let's dive into the Salento, in its age-old culture and art, which come here from a far past, in its vegetation, in its coasts and sea, in its colours and scents, in its dances and typical atmosphere.

The Salento International Film Festival wish You to have a great time, a lot of sun and a load of cinema!