This book is a tour through Salento – that enchanting region between two seas (Ionian and Adriatic) – revisiting the places where the author spent his childhood and adolescence. It is both a personal reminiscence ‘from afar’ and at the same time a physical journey through roads and villages of the province of Lecce.

Through the eyes of Antonio Prete we encounter a different Salento: we enter the houses of Gallipoli and Otranto in wintertime, watch the dancing of a tarantata, discover the menhirs and the fortified town of Acaya, work with papier-maché, travel out to Leuca finisterrae and the prehistoric cave of the Cervi, stroll through the baroque architecture of Lecce...

A guided tour by the author which describes Salento as it was before it became a destination for thousands of tourists, and Salento as it is today, with the unknown places and aspects which it still preserves; a land whose essence lies in the ancient features of histories and legends, smells and tastes which are still so authentic and unexplored.