The landscape has a lot of characteristic elements. The country in Salento is by now farmed everywhere and the trees are mainly secular olive trees with their slumped trunks. The properties are generally divided in small fields, plots separated by the typical dry laid walls.
There are a lot of  fortified manor farms (masserie) dated back to the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries. The villages, usually not much populate, have an almost exotic aspect and are characterized by the intense white colour of the buildings that makes them dazzling in the sunny days. In the latest years, however strong colours as pea green, lemon yellow or blood-red are coming back into fashion.
As regard to the chromatic beauty, the sea takes a dark blue colour if seen from the high sheer sea cliffs of the Adriatic Sea and a more feeble blue- but different in its nuances (emerald green, aqua green, baby blue, etc.) – if seen from the sandy seashores or from the low sea cliffs of the Ionian Sea. Along the coast of both the seas, the villages aren’t many. It is, however, possible to see the numerous and ancient coastal sighting towers, with their quadrangular or round shape, built throughout the centuries to defend from pirate hordes.

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