A unique research and a stunning historical journey to the Salento peninsula in southern Italy. The cities, the monuments, the language of the Messapians (Cretans according to Herodotus), the "Cappadocia" of Massafra and Mottola with their canyons and rocky churches, the Byzantine frescoes, the crypts, the Greek-speaking villages, and the Salentine land "harsh and fertile", as Strabo says, with its centuries-old olive trees, sculptural natural monuments, make up the photographic panorama (800 photos) of the "Greece of Salento".