Dancing lovers. The "Notte della Taranta" is the biggest festival in Italy and one of the most significant manifestations of popular culture in Europe. It takes place in Salento and is dedicated specifically to the rediscovery and enhancement of the traditional music of Salento and its fusion with other musical idioms, from world music to rock, from jazz to symphonic music.
Dancing lovers. The "Notte della Taranta" is the biggest festival in Italy and one of the most significant manifestations of popular culture in Europe. It takes place in Salento and is dedicated specifically to the rediscovery and enhancement of the traditional music of Salento and its fusion with other musical idioms, from world music to rock, from jazz to symphonic music.
Butcher working at night in Melpignano
Butcher working at night in Melpignano
Guys very tired after "the night of Taranta" in Melpignano (Lecce, Italy). "La Notte della Taranta" is the biggest festival in Italy and one of the most significant manifestations of popular culture in Europe. It takes place in Salento and is dedicated specifically to the rediscovery and enhancement of the traditional music of Salento and its fusion with other musical idioms, from world music to rock, from jazz to symphonic music.
Lovely city in the province of Lecce, Italy.

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Corigliano d'Otranto (Choriàna or Koriana griko, Curiànu in local dialect) is an Italian town set in the Salento (Puglia), belonging to the historic region of "Grecìa Salentina", a linguistic area of nine municipalities where the inhabitants speak the "griko", an ancient language of Greek origin. Corigliano d'Otranto has an impressive castle with a highly decorated exterior. It is defined "the most beautiful monument of military architecture dating to the beginning of the sixteenth century in feudal Terra d'Otranto".

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Everyone knows the Salento for the beauty of its beaches and its postcard views, for the goodness of local cuisine and the charm of its many traditions. But few may know that in the Salento is also famous for many other aspects that are revealed to visitors especially during the many patronal feasts spread inland of the peninsula. We are talking about the incredible play of light illuminations, also called villas: these little colored lights that go to cover entire buildings such as waterfalls, churches, streets and squares, forming sets only ones able to keep his eyes upwards everyone, from the largest to the smallest. An idea as simple as charming, able to walk the visitor through alleys and streets amid an almost surreal, magical, surrounded by the sounds and smells of these traditional festivals.

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