What is "salento"

Salento (Salentu in the Salentino dialect) is a geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia in Southern Italy. It is a sub- peninsula of the Italian Peninsula, sometimes described as the "heel" of the Italian "boot".

It encompasses the entire administrative area of the province of Lecce, a large part of the province of Brindisi and part of that of Taranto.

The peninsula is also known as Terra d'Otranto, and in the past Sallentina. In ancient times it was called variously Calabria or Messapia.

Salento can mean:

• Salento, an area of south-eastern Apulia, Italy
• Salento, Campania, a municipality of the Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy
• Salento, Quindío, a municipality in the department of Quindío, Colombia
• Salentino, a dialect spoken in the Apulian area of Salento