The Salento is the heel of Italy's boot, and where this blog gets its name: friselle are the twice-baked rings of bread you soak in water and pile with tomatoes for a light lunch or fresh dinner. And yes: friselle are crunchy, savory & fresh.
I keep two things about the Salento on their own sites — one for visiting, one for reading.
Guida del Salento
My travel notes: the old towns, twenty places to swim on both coasts, and three restaurants worth the detour inland. In German.
Cemento sull’Adriatico
A dossier on fifty years of tourism building between Otranto and San Cataldo: what got built, what got stopped, and what was left to rot. In English.