Here, where Earth was thought to end and where the Ionian and the Adriatic sea blend with thousands of blue shades, the wonders of Salento are waiting for you. This is the extreme strip of Italy, where listening to the silence of the sea is enough to give you a sensation of well-being.

Even the violent sea storms or the splashing waves caressing the last small boats left along the coast, assure intense feelings.         

      Gateway to paradise, on the promontory stands Santa Maria di Leuca's minor pontificial Basilica de Finibus Terrae, where once there was the temple dedicated to the goddess Minerva. Tradition tells that Saint Peter,coming from East and on his way to Rome, landed at Leuca and began the evangelization of Salento. 

      Seen from sea, the coast of Santa Maria di Leuca shows a landscape of rare beauty. Chiselled from the action of the wind, the coast is full of cliffs sheer to the sea, sea caves and hollows of unparalleled shapes and colours which alternate to lonely, very white sandy beaches.