Parco Avventura Salento Adventures

Kalòs Archeodromo del Salento (10 minutes’ walk) is a vast open-air museum illustrating millennia of human habitation in the area. You can explore reconstructed Bronze Age huts, Roman houses and a medieval village, before learning all about the rural culture of the Salento region in a typical farmhouse kitchen. Baroque architecture is the distinguishing feature of the city of Lecce (20 minutes’ drive) – check out, for example, the ornate facades of the 17th-century Basilica di Santa Croce and Church of St Matthew. There's also a Roman amphitheatre and the medieval Carlo V castle. The Salento is renowned for its spectacular coastline (half an hour). For a day at the seaside, head to Torre dell'Orso, where the sandy beach is backed by a pine grove. The archaeological area at Roca Vecchia has ancient cave dwellings, medieval watchtowers and natural pools.