The Salento, also known as the Salento peninsula and popularly known as the heel of Italy, is a subregion of Italy that extends over the southern part of Puglia, between the Ionian and the Adriatic Sea to the west to the east. The inhabitants of the area, which includes the entire province of Lecce, Brindisi and almost all of that part of that of Taranto, is distinguished by linguists and cultural characteristics very different from the rest of the region. Lecce is the capital of Salento, the city of Roman origins and Messapian, renowned for its splendid Baroque architecture. From a historical point of view the Salento has been for many centuries the ancient area known as Terra d'Otranto. Salento has uncertain origins. A study by Mario Cosmao would result from the "salt", meaning "land surrounded by salt-sea": the Romans, in fact, indicated by the inhabitants of the marshes marshy Sallentina that were gathering around the Gulf of Taranto. According to Strabo, the name derives from the name of the Cretan colonists who settled here, called Salento as originating from the city of Salenzia [2]. The hypothesis of Mark Terenzio Varrone, however, is that of a covenant entered into "in Salo," or at sea, among the three ethnic groups that populated the area: Cretans, Illyrians, and Locrians. "Land between the Adriatic and Ionian seas conducted by a line starting from the innermost point of the Gulf of Taranto to the pylon of the district north of Ostuni» The Salento peninsula, from a geographical point of view, is separated from the rest of Puglia from an ideal line from the innermost point of the Gulf of Taranto (in the territory of Massafra) comes to the Adriatic, at the ruins of the city Messapic Egnatia (in the territory of Fasano), bordering the ancient Peucetia. However, the Salento meaning as a cultural entity, rather than geographical, it is customary to shift the boundaries a little further south, along the line from Taranto through Grottaglie, San Michele Salentino and Ceglie, comes up in Ostuni. Thus defined, the Salento has its vertices such ideals: * Taranto, in the homonymous province; * Pilone, Ostuni in territory in the province of Brindisi, * Santa Maria di Leuca, in the province of Lecce, which is the southernmost town in Puglia. The Salento peninsula is the area further east of Italy, and Punta Palascìa or Head of Otranto is the eastern end. According to the nautical conventions, the director of the Punta Palascìa ideal that separates the Ionian Sea from the Adriatic Sea..