Cultural details

Aradeo has greek-byzantine origins: the name comes from the greek word charadreon that means land crossed by streams. Indeed, Aradeo is on a fertile area rich of ground water and this may be the reason why it has a good production of oil, wine and wheat flours to make excellent homemade pasta. Spending a holiday here is a good opportunity to taste genuine food. The historical centre is very little but accurately restored: the XVII cent. village ancient door, the XVIII cent. Annunciation church, the XVII cent. St. John’s column. Next to the historical architecture, there are also important modern works like the town-hall and the theatre, where all the most relevant cultural activities and social events of Aradeo take place: concerts, national performances, local carnivals. Summer is then the right period for enjoying the Dolce Vita: at night everywhere in Salento popular festivals called sagre, where everybody have fun tasting Salento food, drinking good wine and dancing the famous pizzica.

Plan excursions

Salento is a wonderful area to explore. From Aradeo, it takes five minutes of driving and you are into a natural park and fossil museum that was in the past one of the older mines, very common in the area for the typical leccese stone and clay exploitation. In order to this, there you can visit a well-known local factory and watch employees while creating fine handmade pots and china. Indeed, there are also several cultural excursions to organize, like a full immersion trip in the precious baroque art in Lecce (only twenty-seven kilometers from Aradeo). All Salento is a great opportunity for sightseeing. It has astonishing sceneries and romantic places for shooting holiday memories films. From the geographically privileged position of Aradeo in Salento, it takes only fifteen or twenty minutes for reaching the white sandy Ionian or the rocky Adriatic coasts. Gallipoli, Otranto, Santa Maria di Leuca are perfect places for unforgettable swimming, diving, sailing into crystalline seas.

Exclusive Tours in the most Secret Salento

Mrs.Giusy will be glad to organize for her guests of the Salento Sunrise apt., for those who are particularly interested in history and geology, an exclusive documented tour, an amazing Jump in the Past exploring some secrets of the Salento prehistoric era.

One more suggestive tour is a Walk into a Natural Park, among olive groves, pine trees and aromatic bushes, where visitors can deeply feel a mystic atmosphere for the silent peaceful presence of a small ancient Sanctuary, in the cavity of a hill. There, ravishing uncontaminated sceneries make the spirit of visitor to fly higher.