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Food & Wine · Southern Salento
Food and wine in Salento: a farm-to-table guide around Parabita
A wine and food holiday in Italy is, in Salento, simply daily life. What to do in Puglia for anyone who loves the table: Primitivo and Negroamaro wine, extra-virgin olive oil, handmade pasta and farm-to-table flavours — all minutes from Parabita, near Gallipoli.
Wine
Primitivo, Negroamaro and the biodynamic wines of Salento
Salento is a land of deep red wines: Primitivo — cousin of the famous vino Primitivo di Manduria just to the north — and Negroamaro salento, native grapes grown on red earth and limestone. Many estates also produce biodynamic wine and rosé. The wine roads of the southern Salento are dotted with wineries a few minutes' drive from Parabita.
Olive oil
Extra-virgin olive oil: tasting, mills and ancient groves
Centuries-old olive trees are the landscape of Salento. They yield monocultivar extra-virgin oils such as Coratina — intense and peppery — and the gentler Ogliarola salentina. At the working mills nearby you can watch the pressing and enjoy an olive oil tasting of freshly milled oil with local bread — not the polished olive oil stores of the city, but the source itself.
The cuisine
Salento cuisine: farm-to-table restaurants and authentic Italian dishes
Salento cuisine is humble and generous at once: handmade orecchiette, Lecce's pasticciotto pastry, frisa bread, pittule and fresh Ionian fish. The area's farm to table restaurants and masserie cook with vegetables, cheese and oil from the surrounding land — authentic Italian dishes, not tourist menus. You can even learn to make pasta in Italy the old way, shaping orecchiette by hand as the local nonnas do.
Markets & produce
Weekly markets and local produce
Every Salento village has its weekly market: seasonal fruit and vegetables, cheeses, taralli, preserves and local produce. It is the most authentic way to stock the apartment kitchen and eat as the locals do — the heart of any farm-to-table stay. The markets of the towns around Parabita are minutes away.
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Taste Salento from the heart of Parabita's old town
Two independent apartments in the heart of Parabita — the ideal base to explore the wine, oil and cuisine of southern Salento. Direct booking.