Spiaggia degli Innamorati
Rolling South sang a famous song a few years ago, and so as we travel south, with the hot summer wind massaging our emotions, a few kilometers after Gallipoli on the coast road leading to Santa Maria di Leuca we find the Spiaggia degli Innamorati. This stretch of coastline has been kissed by nature with its expanses of fine white sand, small dunes that mingle with the green vegetation typical of the Mediterranean maquis and a sea that changes different colors according to the hours of the day; all this magic and these glimpses of a landscape that Puglia so generously offers us represent the pride of this stretch of free beach. The Spiaggia degli Innamorati, also known as Li Foggi beach, is located within the Regional Natural Park of Sant"Andrea Island and Punta Pizzo coastline and is an enchanted place, a bit wild and lonely and perhaps for this reason in the common imagination of the locals it would have been given the name Spiaggia degli Innamorati because of the intimacy and privacy that this place conveys, the ideal place for couples in search of tranquility. The beach is quite busy in midsummer both with families looking for a quiet corner with children in tow and with groups of young people who decide to stop and spend a fun-filled day at the beach. The place has low cliffs mixed with white and soft sand, the sea is all in all shallow for long stretches and the water is cool and transparent; this place is a real corner of paradise suitable both for those who like to go hiking within the wide pine forests full of nature trails, and for those who like to snorkel taking advantage of a seabed all to be discovered. The beach is a bit isolated and lonely characteristics that denote all the charm and beauty of the place so forget about any kind of service; if you come to visit the Spiaggia degli Innamorati, as I strongly recommend, bring everything you need for a day at the beach, stay until the evening to admire one of the most evocative sunsets of the whole Salento after which finished the day we respect this wonderful environment and bring back with us the garbage bags. This is a magical landscape...this is Salento.... have a good summer at the Spiaggia degli Innamorati
Tonio Viva
