Leuca (De Finibus Terrae for the Romans) sits at the end of a promontory,
the extreme tip of Apulia.
The coast is fraught with numerous caverns, the result of thousands of years of water working away at the
karstic Salento peninsula.
One particularly interesting place is the hamlet Ciolo, just a few kilometers
beyond Leuca along the coast road towards Otranto. Here stands one of Italy's most important
lighthouses
(Faro), about 50 meters high; this
lighthouse is considered to mark the meeting point of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas, where their waters mix together.
In reality, however, this is a just something that is told to tourists: the true meeting/mixing point of the waters
of the two seas is offshore from Palascia, a few kilometers south of Otranto.
