The sea here is a delight of intense brightness with its thousands of gradations from cobalt blue to turquoise,with its crystalline waters of an unique transparency; you can change your itinerary every day (a good road network allows you to effect long walks in a brief time choosing lanes and deviations that from the sea brings you in land and viceversa or in another maritime locality from the Jonio to the Adriatic) where there are numerous and wide beaches of white sand ideal for families with children (from Torre dell'Orso to Otranto Porto Cesareo, Gallipoli, Ugento ecc.) let alone many other localities with spectacular cliffs over a sea rich in fish, for the more experienced swimmers and scuba lovers, interrupted only by rocks reachable by sea, bays, burrows, and caves (Castro, S. Casarea, Porto Miggiano, Porto Badisco, Porto Selvaggio, S. Caterina, Torre S. Giovanni, S. Maria di Leuca, ecc.). Ancient sighting towers can be seen on the cost to defend the fishermen. and their boats in sheltered inlets from Turkish invasions.

The fish is very suggestive when it has just been fished: the mullet from Porto Cesareo, the lobsters from Leuca, squids, mullets, pray, octopuses; the fish market of Gallipoli with its auction , choreographic sceneries of fishermen extricating the nets after a night at sea.

The taste and the perfume of the sea in the sea urchings just fished or special orders tasted with lemon and eaten with the typical home made bread, is surely an important stopping place for the tourist at Castro, Porto Badisco and in other maritime localities.