The country is made up of wild areas of Mediterranean scrub land, vines, tabacco crops,oak plantations and olive trees. The Murge which is present here forms a rocky ground.

Crossing the country we can see: dry walls elegantly built covered in myrtle, branches of ilex and thorny oak the habitat of reptiles, bugs and microfauna.
Ancient agricultural centers dating from 1600 made up noble or functional rustics (sheepfolds, threshing floors, oil crushers).
Valuable architectural and aristocratic villas.

Scorrano 35 km from Lecce towards Maglie, there are particular englobed oaks in cultivations that are named "egg yolks"
On the salentina coast we can admire olives that have been planted in niches in the ground, in steps down to the rocky coast.

The most important natural products are olives, grapevines, cereals, vegetables, fruit and tabacco.
The cultivation of the olive dates from 1200, the most important sector of the region is the production and the commerce of oil. The most esteemed oil is that of extravergin; the harvest is done by hand to avoid the contact of the olives with the ground. A lot of hypogeal crushers which were built under the ground is the testimony of this ancient tradition.

The farmers put the olives in a hole which was on the same level of the ground on the threshing floor of the trap, the crusher that is often found on the farms, the olives then ended in a hold where they were ground, the crushers in disuse were buried to remove the SCAZZAMURRIEDDHU which in accordance with popular imagination were the elves that lived in them and are seen in the form of water vapour. In Vernole between Otranto and Lecce are different hypogeal crushers dating from 1500.