Not sure how to rate this place. The views are SPECTACULAR!!! The water is amazing (though beware of the jellyfish). The lounge chairs were a bit crowded in and this wasn't even high season. All of this in 4 to 5 star range. Then comes the restaurant.. oooof. They told us to reserve a seat to ensure we get timely service. So we did. 30 minutes to get our drinks. Almost 2 hours to get out pizza. Most other patrons came and left.. we kept asking and they kept saying 5 more minutes. This definitely marred our experience. Don't plan to eat here, and you'll be happier! 0 star for restaurant service but when the pizza arrived, it was delicious (so 5 star for the flavor of the pizza).

Bagno Marino Archi has a unique charm with a retro feel, almost like stepping back into the 1960s. The atmosphere is relaxed and with the right wind, as often happens in Salento, the sea is simply beautiful. What I really appreciated is how easy they make the access to the water: although it is set on rocks, there are platforms, ladders, and comfortable spaces that allow everyone to enjoy the sea without struggling on uneven stones. There is also a bar and a restaurant, which makes it easy to spend the whole day here without having to move around. Overall, it is a great place if you want to enjoy a calm day by the sea, with all the essentials at hand, a nice view, and an atmosphere that feels both authentic and timeless.

Bagno Marino Archi feels authentic as it gets for a summer beach vibe. An absolute gem of a swimming area with giant floats and rocks to climb on all around the coast and the club. Food stops early, bar stays open. It’s a nice touch having the umbrella stand that has a free lock system that you can put stuff in and enjoy the water. There’s a few levels to the place but I can see how it gets incredibly packed. Important thing to remember is that this isn’t a luxury resort beach club but a unique family friendly summer club with a unique cliff side setting. 10/10 would recommend. Try and come early to get a lower level front row day bed and umbrella. Full vlog coming soon on YT for leave the resort cheers

-04.06.2025- Two sun beds + an umbrella cost 36 eur, and I think their menu is fairly priced compared to other private beaches in Monopoli-Fasano area. You can ask the restaurant for take away and eat & drink while you sunbathe downstairs :-)

Unbelievably beautiful! Definitely worth a stop if you’re staying in or around Lecce. Not packed, especially not with tourists, people were nice and friendly, kids playing, just enjoying their day and the beautiful views.

This is the best place ever, the topography is very impressive! The water is so clear and you can spend hours snorkeling around the nearby coves. Also great lunch! We spent the day with two sunbeds and it was well worth it. Can’t wait to come back :)

Beautiful location and shockingly good food! Book in advance to get a lounger in the front row. Service is also a bit slow but if you relax you will have a great time and great meal.

We stayed 1 hour at most after paying eur68 for a sun umbrella and three sun beds we didn't even bother to use. Water of the pools looks nice only from the outside, inside is dirty. The floor of the pools is dangerous. My daughter got a cut on her ankle. Toilets are dirty despite there were very few customers and it was only morning on a week day, rusty doors, no bins in the toilets, toilet doors not closing. Next to the supposedly nice bio pools there are two pools with brown water with water pipes feeding them. It's absolutely disgusting. I have never seen anything like that in my life. We were so appalled by what we saw that we left after less than 1hour. Please don't go. Consider going next to it : "Augustus beach" which looks much much nicer with clean water, fresh shades from real plants/ trees and nice wide sun umbrella.

After a nice lunch we wanted to have a couple of drinks at the pool. Unfortunately they wanted to charge us €30.00 for sitting at the pool. What a shame especially since there were hardly any guests.

I would recommend bringing your own food, but you aren't allowed. That being said, you are forced to eat at the only restaurant at the resort. We sit down and, after begging for menus, we finally order. We wait an hour and start to notice other tables that arrived after us are eating. I stop a waiter to ask what the issue is, and he comes back later to say they had lost our order. Three salads, an eggplant Parmesan, and some deep-fried calamari. Twenty minutes later, we are served. Do you think they acknowledged the situation, apologized, or offered a complimentary coffee or limoncello? Nothing. I don't expect anything, ever, but to not apologize after such a blatant mistake is inexcusable. This is preposterous behavior at best—arrogant and selfish. You won't catch me here ever again. Also, avoid the waitress Celeste at all costs—she can't be trusted.

Pools were nice. Bit rough on the feet but good to chill and swim. I didn't understand the dj blasting music out at 12 in the afternoon when there was only three of us by the pool. But maybe I'm just an old man. So all in all worth a visit.

Paradise

Using old stinky oil, smells so so bad on all the area

Great pool areas; both adults and children sections. The sun loungers are very comfortable. Food and drinks available. The pool is salt water and the views are amazing. Highly recommended.

Portomigiano in Santa Cesarea Terme is a true hidden gem — a little slice of paradise where you can swim in a natural pool with enchanting turquoise and emerald colors, surrounded by dramatic rocky cliffs and golden stone walls. The seabed is dotted with rocks, and the crystal-clear water lets you see every detail below. While it can get quite crowded in the summer months, if you visit outside peak tourist season, you’ll experience a truly magical and peaceful place. One of its best features is that it’s almost always beautiful: being sheltered, it often offers calm, transparent water even when the wind picks up elsewhere. Keep in mind that, since it has been left very wild, you either need to jump in from the rocks or do a bit of trekking to reach the small, hidden beach. This spot is absolutely worth a visit if you’re looking for raw serenity and stunning natural beauty.

Parking 🅿️ 5 euros per day. Free beach but no shade. Water Cristal clear and beautiful cave. Worthy to come for swim and drive back home

You enter by parking your car in the parking lot of the restaurant whose sign you can see. After leaving the car there, you go down a staircase of about fifty steps and you arrive at a hidden beach with steps and rocks. Continuing to the right and passing the rocks on the right, you arrive at a small sandy and rocky beach where you can swim undisturbed. Wonderful discovery!

Personally I don't like rocky beaches. This is only rocks, no sand not even a meter. It's beautiful to look at, but that's all.

Fantastic! If you are a nature lover you will really appreciate this absolutely beautiful location! The beach is perfect for swimming and snorkeling. Recommend for all ages since you have very shallow water pools, perfect for the little ones. Make sure to bring protection for the sun since there is not much natural shade.

My favorite beach in this area, maybe of all of Salento. Cristal clear water, lots of fish if you love snorkeling. The colors of the water are simply stunning. Places are limited, so I would recommend to go there as soon in the morning as possible.

Water is amazing, there is a small cave to dive in. The only down side is the tricky navigation on the rocks and it can get very crowded during the summer.

Beautiful lido with great view. 2 beds and an umbrella and entrance fee was €29 for both of us for the day. Nice Cafe on site too. Very relaxing and no sand!

Clean water, reasonable prices

Today: the place is nice but the service in the restaurant is very bad… only one girl working, she takes the order and does the payment. She was in a VERY bad mood. Going in vacation to be treated like that, is better not to go. The restaurant was empty, people were complaining… Won’t comeback and won’t tell friends to go there. Also, they didn’t have half of the menu.

Stunning bathing area, get there early though as gets busy busy with limited space. Lovely cafe/restaurant serving the area. Such a lovely way to enjoy the sea but with with modern amenities at close proximity.

Wonderful location but very bad restaurant and surveillance, on top bathroom facilitiesrs were very dirty. We paid - quite a lot- for a seat and we found it occupied once we went to swim.

Good place!

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We stayed 1 hour at most after paying eur68 for a sun umbrella and three sun beds we didn't even bother to use. Water of the pools looks nice only from the outside, inside is dirty. The floor of the pools is dangerous. My daughter got a cut on her ankle. Toilets are dirty despite there were very few customers and it was only morning on a week day, rusty doors, no bins in the toilets, toilet doors not closing. Next to the supposedly nice bio pools there are two pools with brown water with water pipes feeding them. It's absolutely disgusting. I have never seen anything like that in my life. We were so appalled by what we saw that we left after less than 1hour. Please don't go. Consider going next to it : "Augustus beach" which looks much much nicer with clean water, fresh shades from real plants/ trees and nice wide sun umbrella.

After a nice lunch we wanted to have a couple of drinks at the pool. Unfortunately they wanted to charge us €30.00 for sitting at the pool. What a shame especially since there were hardly any guests.

I would recommend bringing your own food, but you aren't allowed. That being said, you are forced to eat at the only restaurant at the resort. We sit down and, after begging for menus, we finally order. We wait an hour and start to notice other tables that arrived after us are eating. I stop a waiter to ask what the issue is, and he comes back later to say they had lost our order. Three salads, an eggplant Parmesan, and some deep-fried calamari. Twenty minutes later, we are served. Do you think they acknowledged the situation, apologized, or offered a complimentary coffee or limoncello? Nothing. I don't expect anything, ever, but to not apologize after such a blatant mistake is inexcusable. This is preposterous behavior at best—arrogant and selfish. You won't catch me here ever again. Also, avoid the waitress Celeste at all costs—she can't be trusted.

Pools were nice. Bit rough on the feet but good to chill and swim. I didn't understand the dj blasting music out at 12 in the afternoon when there was only three of us by the pool. But maybe I'm just an old man. So all in all worth a visit.

Paradise

Using old stinky oil, smells so so bad on all the area

Great pool areas; both adults and children sections. The sun loungers are very comfortable. Food and drinks available. The pool is salt water and the views are amazing. Highly recommended.

Splendid.

Worth to visit. Beautiful place.

It is very beautiful here, the environment is great, and the tranquility and kindness of the people, everything that is in Italy, I see Italy as a necessary place that we should take care of.🤗

Very nice place for pictures! Nothing else! If you are close by, it worth a visit! But not to travel 200-300km for a Picture, it will be a mistake!

Sadly it was closed for renovations. But looks great from the outside

Private building, not possible to visit. It has an attractive exterior, but not worth making a stop for.

Looks nice from the outside, but currently under restauration.

You can pull over to the side of the road but there is no dedicated parking. The historical explanation sign is interesting but derelict. Lovely view.

Cool tower along the salento coast.

Beautiful view

Nice viewpoint.

Stunning unspoilt scenary!

Spectacular view

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

Gabriella was very friendly, have is a beautiful room and helped with our inquiries. The weather was atrocious, pouring with rain, only one bar open and we spent hours relaxing in our room. The breakfast was wonderful. Great coffee, cold meats, toast.

Terrible accommodation. The staff is not helpful at all. Rooms full of insects. Bad smell in the room. Old bathroom. Asked for tea, brought us lukewarm water and charged €5. I do not recommend it to anyone

Built for a baroness in the 1800s, Villa Raffaella is a stunning piece of architecture waiting to host you for an unforgettable vacation

Very bad, lots of bugs and caterpillars in the room. Also a horrible, heavy and pungent smell in the room. We asked at the reception to change our room, they told us all the rooms are the same, but if we want to change we have to pay an extra €50! The breakfast is poor!

Historic beautiful guesthouse, named after the the original owner's wife. Basic rooms for basic prices. Tiny bathroom and shower, good bed. Get in early for a table outside at breakfast (this was early October). Friendly caretaker, who will share some dinner options nearby. Sunday morning you will hear the sounds from the small market opposite.

This is an amazing hotel!!! Beautiful rooms, amazing location (you can walk everywhere in the town) and delicious breakfast. The staff was amazing - they spoke English and helped us with everything. I would come back for sure and recommend this place to anyone. Thank you Villa Raffaella for a WONDERFUL stay!!!

Haven’t even had the possibility to stay there, as I had booked for a whole week and once called the hotel they said my booking had not gone through to them even though booking said it was confirmed. Also once we had paid an extra 60£ fee for the triple room with kitchen, the owner that I had called myself said that we had to pay an extra 10£ a day to use the kitchen. I mean if we have booked via booking a room with a kitchen it is weird they asked me for extra 10£ a day to use it? Also booking had no trace what so ever about this extra fee, and also I had to ask all questions myself or I would have found out once there. I have cancelled my trip and most definitely will be putting this property on my blacklist. Rude and disorganised.

Place deserves 1 star for the food at the cafe, which was very good. I had unpleasant experience with bagnino who was telling me to change an umbrella after half of the day because he made a „mistake“. I don’t think it’s appropriate in general since I paid full price for everything - he could find a solution without moving me or find appropriate way to apologize- he didn’t even help me to move my things. Big number of sunbeds were empty during this particular day. I did not come back during my stay.

Out of peak time this was a very restful place and not expensive.

Very nice, didn't do the pool but lovely bathing area down the steps. Beautiful clear blue water. Food nice, staff excellent, sulphur can be a bit smelly but well worth a visit.

It's a great lido. All other lidos in the area had no spots left, and broken showers except this one. So for sure the best!

Heals you :)

Beautiful

(Translated by Google) Splendid structure overlooking the sea. There is a beautiful terrace with umbrellas and sunbeds, a bar with the possibility of having lunch. With comfortable stairs you go down to the sulphurous pool... Clean and relaxing (swimming cap mandatory) From the pool with another staircase carved into the rock you go down to the sea, crystal clear water, fish everywhere.. everything is wonderful. We found courtesy and kindness. Parking €5 for the whole day (Original) Splendida struttura a picco sul mare. C'è un bel terrazzamento con ombrelloni e lettini, bar con possibilità anche di pranzare. Con delle scale comode si scende verso la piscina solfurea... Pulita e rilassante (cuffia obbligatoria ) Dalla piscina con un altra scala scavata nella roccia si scende al mare, acqua cristallina, pesci ovunque.. stupendo tutto. Abbiamo trovato cortesia e gentilezza. Parcheggio 5€ per tutta la gg

Very warm welcome, small dog well accepted. Simple but very well-managed menu, delicious and well-presented dishes, very pleasant 'original' service.

We came a bit after 8PM without any reservation on Saturday night. The crew was super friendly, and they made a table available for us (4person) even when the place was full. We had to wait about an hour for the food, but since it was during the rush hour it was absolutely acceptable. The food was delicious, and super fresh. They didn't put any service fee, etc on the bill, so we payed for the food (Tuna steak, etc) beers and wines 90EUR. We were very pleased about the whole service, especially after we couldn't even get any table at other places because we had no reservation.

Terrible overpriced food. Orecchiete with bland flavorless tomato sauce that clearly came out of a jar. Tiny fish fillet. Not fresh. Served with salad also clearly dumped from a bag. Frozen tiramisu. Horrendous meal for €25. Avoid.

No frills place to sip some wine, enjoy a cheap pizza and take in the view. Enjoyed a decently delicious mushroom pizza. Previous reviews mentioned frozen fish, which is somewhat common if the type is not locally caught, but all frozen meals are clearly marked on the menu. Simply, La Torre is a simple place that offers a straight forward meal.

I had something been meaning to try for decades. Pizza friut di mare. The 4 shrimp were huge with mussels and clams. I asked they not put any other item of fish on it so not sure if there was any. Likely calamari is my guess . Anyway its just me i guess fish with cheeese is strange and because shell fish give off some water pizza was bit soggy.. Anyway place has ocean view and good prices still worth a visit . And if you never had a seafood pizza i suggest splitting it , its not bad just not to my liking is all

Great, well cooked food with gluten-free alternatives. Friendly, smiling staff with super service.

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(Translated by Google) The church was commissioned in 1624 by Cesare Gallone, son of Baron Alessandro. Known as the chapel of the second sons, it was the burial place of the cadets, those who were excluded from the family inheritance due to the right of majority. Spartan, Austere (Original) La chiesa fu commissionata nel 1624 da Cesare Gallone, figlio del barone Alessandro. Nota come cappella dei secondogeniti, era luogo di sepoltura dei cadetti, coloro che venivano esclusi dall'eredità di famiglia a causa del diritto di maggiorasco. Spartana, Austera

(Translated by Google) Stunning church in the heart of the historic center of Tricase (Le) #salento #localguides (Original) Chiesa stupenda nel cuore del centro storico di Tricase (Le) #salento #localguides

(Translated by Google) Enchanting (Original) Incantevole

(Translated by Google) The country would not be very captivating, if it were not for its coasts, its sunsets, its waters, its heavenly panoramas. Everything revolves around the spa and the places I just described. The main street (via Roma) full of stalls and shops selling useless things made in China and bars and restaurants ready to fleece tourists. Parking payments work perfectly... For the rest except Villa Sticchi or Villa Raffaella and some other structures with historical value... there is nothing. (Original) Il paese non è che risulti molto accattivante, se non fosse per le sue coste, i suoi tramonti, le sue acque, i suoi paradisiaci panorami. Tutto gira intorno alle terme ed ai posti che ho appena descritto. La strada principale (via Roma) piena di bancarelle e negozi che vendono inutilità made in china e bar e ristorazioni pronti a spennare il turista. I pagamenti dei parcheggi funzionano alla perfezione... Per il resto tranne Villa Sticchi o Villa Raffaella e qualche altra struttura con valenza storica... non c'è niente.

(Translated by Google) Really produces satisfactory sound (Original) Vraiment vers produit son satisfaisant

(Translated by Google) Fabulous, a truly incredible artefact. (Original) Favoloso, un manufatto davvero incredibile.

(Translated by Google) Beautiful cistern whose dating is uncertain (Original) Bellissima cisterna la cui datazione è incerta

(Translated by Google) Enchanting place (Original) Posto d'incanto

(Translated by Google) Must see! (Original) Da vedere!

(Translated by Google) Small rock church in the countryside of Cerfignano, a hamlet of Santa Cesarea Terme. Church dedicated to the Madonna dell'idri or dell'acqua. Easily reachable on foot from the town, recently restored together with the surrounding garden (Original) Chiesetta rupestre nelle campagne di Cerfignano frazione di santa Cesarea Terme. Chiesa dedicata alla Madonna dell'idri o dell'acqua. Facilmente raggiungibile anche a piedi dell'abitato, recentemente restaurata insieme al giardino circostante

(Translated by Google) Beautiful little church encountered during a trekking in Salento, immersed in the countryside and olive groves. (Original) Bella chiesetta incontrata durante un trekking nel Salento, immersa nella campagna e uliveti.

(Translated by Google) The Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary lives in the context of the beautiful square of Vittorio Emanuele II here in Cerfignano, and in my opinion, it is one of the most beautiful and interesting squares in the surrounding area, both in terms of size and enjoyment. Where the people of the town usually meet. (Original) La chiesa Parrocchiale della visitazione di Maria Vergine vive nel contesto della bella piazza di Vittorio Emanuele II qui a Cerfignano, e mio giudizio, è una delle più belle e interessanti piazze dei dintorni, sia per dimensioni e godibilità. Dove la gente del paese si ritrova abitualmente.

(Translated by Google) Beautiful ancient church of Cerfignano (Original) Bellissima antica chiesa di cerfignano

(Translated by Google) Without words!!! I recommend the visit. (Original) Senza parole!!! Consiglio la visita .