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Il Salento raccontato da chi lo vive ogni giorno 🗣

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The most beautiful part of Southern Italy isn’t always what you see. Sometimes, it’s who you meet. ❤️🇮🇹 I sent a simple WhatsApp message hoping to visit a tiny, centuries-old chapel in a little village in Salento. I expected directions. Perhaps an admission fee.
Instead, I met Stefano Conte. A retired policeman with a tremendous love for his village, its history, and the extraordinary frescoes preserved inside Saint Anne’s Chapel.
Centuries ago, artists covered these walls with biblical stories so that people who couldn’t read could still understand their faith. And centuries later, Stefano did something remarkably similar for us. Knowing we spoke little Italian, he spent hours preparing, translating, and practicing six pages of history in English. Then he stood before those ancient frescoes and read every word to us. Complete strangers. And as if that weren’t enough, he sent us home with an enormous box of local Salento specialties, refusing anything in return. 🥹
This is the Southern Italy I want people to know. Where hospitality isn’t a transaction. Where history belongs to the community, and people are proud to share it. Where knowing who holds the key opens doors to extraordinary places, and sometimes to friendships that last a lifetime. It’s why Branches to Roots is about so much more than sightseeing.
Thank you, Stefano, for reminding me how much beauty there is in this world, and how often we find it in one another.

Have you ever met someone while traveling who made you feel like family?

📖 The full story, The Keeper of Saint Anne’s Chapel, is on my Substack. Link in bio.

#SpecchiaGallone #Puglia #faith #saintannechapel #TravelDeeper

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24 Ottobre - - - PUGLIA - - - ❤️🌊🌟

#marinadilizzano #taranto #salento #nonveniteinpuglia

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Moments 🌊🌅🛩️

#Tramonto #Mare #Puglia #Salento #Memories

#mare #sea #sunset #summer #Estate #volgopuglia #volgoitalia #volgolecce #Gallipoli #Pulsano #Lizzano #marinadilizzano #marinadipulsano #ig_puglia_ #marinadipulsano #pulsano #nonveniteinpuglia #igersitalia #salentoview #stateviallecasevostre #ig_puglia_ #ig_italia #italy #apulia #salento #weareinpuglia #sunset #sundown

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Ciò che è destinato a sfiorarti passa. Ciò che deve cambiarti, ti attraversa.

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Il tempo passa, ma certe cose sanno restare.

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📍Santa Maria al Bagno - Sant'Isidoro, Nardo - Salento 🇮🇹💙

#italia #salento #puglia #travel #italy

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#fyp #puglia #salento #gallipoli #italy

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Il "relitto "al tramonto .......... e non solo 🌓😅

Nel dicembre del 1978, la motonave mercantile greca Demetrios si incagliò nelle secche degli Alimini a causa di una mareggiata e del forte vento di grecale. Mai più rimossa, la nave è rimasta per decenni a pochi metri dalla riva, diventando un'icona leggendaria del litorale di Otranto.

#demetrios

#alimini

#relitto

#colors

#sunset

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- Basta un giorno così -

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#sea #love #live #nofilter #salento

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I colori del tramonto.
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#salento #salentodamare #salentolife #tramontiitaliani #tramontisulmare

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"Secondo me, il senso della vita, se devo dirtelo, è cercare di portarsi a casa più ricordi possibili, più bei momenti possibili, perché la vita è piena di brutti momenti, quelli buoni ti servono per darti forza" - Fabri Fibra

#Tramonto #Taranto #Mare #Puglia #Salento

#mare #sea #sunset #summer #Estate #Memories #volgopuglia #volgoitalia #volgotaranto #ig_puglia_ #marinadipulsano #pulsano #nonveniteinpuglia #igersitalia #salentoview #stateviallecasevostre #ig_puglia_ #ig_italia #italy #apulia #salento #weareinpuglia #sunset #sony #sonyphotography #sunsetlover #sundown

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Il Faro Bianco - Otranto -lunga esposizione 📸 ⏳

#longexposure

#otranto

#salento

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