Concept

There is an almost total connection between our cultural heritage and what we are, sons of this land. If it is true that cultural heritage plays an important role in the creation of a people’s identity, what our ancestors made centuries ago strongly influenced our way of living, and shows today our most intimate nature, our truest truth, and the ancient and very modern values that represent us.

We are people made up by dolmens and olive trees, cathedrals and menhirs, constituent ingredients of our way of being: welcoming and friendly, peaceful and lovers of life. Tenaciously linked to our past and our traditions, but able to look at the future with optimism and willingness to do new things. And we are people of peace, always.

This is our cultural heritage: among our noble palaces, among the sea, our dream landscape, among the food, the wine, the high quality olive oil, you can find our DNA, people used to embracing both those who leave and those who stay.

Our richness is made up by symbols coming from far away, drops of precious memory scattered in our land: the rose window of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo in Minervino, with the altar perfectly illuminated by the sunlight on the day of the summer solstice; the Massi della Vecchia in Giuggianello, a legacy of an archaic Salento; in Cocumola the "lemon-colored green door" dear to one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the native Vittorio Bodini; the Baronial Palace of Specchia Gallone, the Byzantine crypt of San Giovanni, the Tablets of San Giuseppe, the Li Scusi dolmen, the Lubelli castle, the ancient Roman road, the Via Francigena, the food and wine handed down by our grandmothers, the very short distance from Otranto and Santa Cesarea with their wonderful coast, and much, much more…

All enclosed in a single territorial complex, made up by Minervino, with its hamlets, and Giuggianello: a precious unicum that has few equals in the world, which we received from our fathers and which we have the task of handing over, intact and, indeed, more beautiful, to the people who come after us.