Many millennia ago, as Jason and the Argonauts set sail in pursuit of the Golden Fleece, seafaring Greeks of less mythical stock crossed the Straight of Otranto in search of peaceful and fertile lands…

Salento, the peninsula upon which they landed, was infused with the richness of Hellenic culture as it evolved over time as Magna Graecia. Others came to dominate the region - Roman, Byzantine, Norman, Ottoman and Spanish – their layers written in the arts and beliefs of this extraordinary palimpsest of a land. And now another adventurer from a distant shore, whose name references the mythological past, invites you to delight in the storied magic of Salento from an equally storied vantage point: