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Scorrano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The Guarini family's cellars in Scorrano, outside Lecce, are documented across roughly nine centuries. The estate bottles Salento reds, whites, rosati and passiti from native grapes and runs a working cucina for cellar dinners.
Best for Centuries-old Salento estate wines
Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Agricole Vallone traces back to Commendatore Vincenzo De Marco's late-1800s wine estate, consolidated in 1934 when a marriage joined the Tenuta Flaminio and Tenuta Iore properties, with Castel Serranova added in the 1960s. The Lecce-based family firm now farms 500 hectares across three Salento estates and bottles sixteen labels, including its long-running Vigna Flaminio rosato.
Best for Salento estate wines, especially Vigna Flaminio rosato
Guagnano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The Cantele family returned to their native Salento to found this winery near Lecce, building a reputation for showcasing native Negroamaro and Primitivo alongside international varieties. The estate has become one of the most exported names in Puglian wine without leaving family ownership.
Best for Negroamaro and Primitivo from the Salento
Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Claudio Riso apprenticed under maestro Antonio Malecore before opening his own cartapesta workshop on Via Vittorio Emanuele II in Lecce's historic center, continuing a chain of papier-mâché training that runs back generations. The studio restores antique sacred statuary alongside making new saints, nativity figures and decorative pieces entirely by hand.
Best for Hand-modeled cartapesta saints and nativity figures
Melpignano, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The weaving workshop at the Le Costantine estate near Lecce works four-shaft wooden looms to produce tapestries, rugs, blankets and cashmere, linen and silk scarves by hand, a craft the foundation revived originally to support local women's independence. Every piece gets its finishing done by hand rather than machine.
Best for Hand-loomed Salento textiles and scarves
Lecce / Italy
Makò Abbigliamento has sold ceremony, oversize and casual clothing for men and women from Via Taranto in Lecce for more than 50 years, carrying brands like Maxfort, Romeo Gigli and Lebole with a focus on curvy and plus-size fits. The family-run shop also offers tailored menswear with sartorial cuts.
Best for Menswear & womenswear, ceremony wear, plus size
Cursi, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Marrocco built its name quarrying and carving pietra leccese, the soft golden limestone behind Lecce's baroque facades, under founder Salvatore Marrocco, remembered locally as the "re" of the Salento quarries after his death. The firm still cuts and sculpts the stone into architectural elements and decorative pieces from Cursi, a few kilometers outside Lecce.
Best for Carved and quarried pietra leccese stonework
Lecce, Puglia, Italy
The Natale family has run its pasticceria in Lecce since 1978, turning out pasticciotto leccese - the custard-filled shortcrust pastry native to the city - alongside the wider Salento repertoire of gelato and cakes. The shop keeps locations in both Lecce and nearby San Cesario di Lecce.
Best for Pasticciotto leccese, the city's signature pastry
Lecce, Puglia
Salento fashion house founded 2016 by designer Benedetta 'Nina' Rossi in Lecce, Puglia. Local artisans hand-weave stone-washed linen on traditional Salento looms and hand-embroider garments at her atelier off Piazzetta del Duca D'Atene.
Best for Embroidered Clothing, Dresses
Ninaleuca was founded in 2016 by Benedetta 'Nina' Rossi, a Central Saint Martins-trained designer who returned to her native Salento, the southern tip of Puglia, wanting to build a fashion brand rooted in the region's textile traditions. Her atelier sits in Lecce's historic centre, at Piazzetta del Duca D'Atene, and every artisan in the Ninaleuca supply chain works within a 30-kilometre radius of it. The house's core technique is loom-weaving, using 100% pure cotton yarn worked in two or three colour combinations; most of the patterns are hand-drawn by Rossi herself. Pieces are finished with hand embroidery and stone-washed pure linen. The brand's name comes from Punta Leuca, the southernmost cape of Salento.
Lecce / Online
Officine81 has sold elegant menswear from Lecce since 2002, when the brand took its name from the street number of its first boutique, and it launched a full e-commerce shop in 2020. The site now carries jackets, shirts, knitwear and denim across seasonal collections, with dozens of customer reviews confirming order fulfillment out of its Lecce base.
Best for Menswear, casualwear, streetwear
Salento, near Lecce, Puglia, Italy
Schirinzi has pressed olive oil in the Salento outside Lecce since 1963, milling native cultivars into the extra-virgin oil sold from its own frantoio and shipped abroad. The family operation still frames its work around the harvest calendar rather than year-round industrial output.
Best for Extra-virgin olive oil from Salento groves
Tiggiano, Lecce, Italy
Family weaving house 'La Tessitura di Antonia Calabrese' based in Tiggiano, in Puglia's Lecce province - not Calabria; makes linen, cotton and chenille home textiles: table linens, bedding, bath and gift items.
Best for Textiles, Artisan Clothing
The company is 'La Tessitura di Antonia Calabrese S.r.l.,' a family-run textile manufacturer headquartered in Tiggiano, a small town in the province of Lecce - which sits in Puglia, not Calabria. It produces decorative fabrics and household linens in linen, cotton, cotton-linen blends, pearl cotton, chenille and Flemish weaves, spanning tableware, bedding, bathroom textiles, gift items and baby goods. The site describes it as a family business and references a recent debut showing at Milan's Fuorisalone design week.
Historic centre, lecce / Italy
Vico dei Bolognesi is a concept store in the historic centre of Lecce selling clothing, accessories, vintage furniture, home decor and beauty products. Its online shop supports direct orders, while its footer lists a Via Matteotti 22A street address in Lecce along with phone, WhatsApp and email contacts; the site also advertises an in-store event at that address. The physical address and published contacts remain part of the accountable store identity.
Best for Concept store, fashion, home decor, vintage, accessories
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