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Acaya Castle and Walled Village

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Acaya Castle and Walled Village

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Acaya Castle and Walled Village

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Location: Vernole, Lecce, Apulia, Italy

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1. The Le Cesine Nature Reserve and the fortified village of Acaya – loop tour from San Cataldo

38.7km

01:31

110m

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Central Salento – loop tour from Lecce

59.9km

02:23

200m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Torre dell'Orso cliff viewpoint – Mouth of the Alimini Lakes loop from Lecce

97.3km

03:50

300m

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Antonio Scotto di q

May 17, 2021

A small square at the foot of a castle, a quiet, peaceful place where peace reigns. An ideal place for a small stop, there are also two small bars if you want to drink something different from the contents of our water bottle. If you want, arriving around lunchtime, you can stop in one of the nearby taverns where you can taste some typical dishes of Salento cuisine. Walking along the small cobbled streets inside the walls and passing the village, you can take an asphalted road, not very wide, which passing through fields of olive trees and flowering meadows leads to the coast a few meters from the WWF le Cesine oasis ( left) or from S. Cataldo (right). It is one of my favorite places when I don't want to get too far.

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Cris

December 5, 2020

In 1294 Charles II of Anjou donated this village to Gervaso dell'Acaya, a valiant captain, whose family owned it for three centuries. In 1506 Alfonso of Acaya built the oldest nucleus of the Castle; a few decades later his son surrounded it with walls and fortified the castle with bulwarks, bastions and moat, giving the village an urban plan. In 1570, the fief of Acaya passed to the Regio Fisco and was subsequently fortified with additional walls for the fear of Turkish incursions. In the following centuries it passed to the Vernazza family who fortunately did not modify it and thus passed through the Baroque, preserving the typical structure of a Renaissance fortress. Later by the Vernazza family it was sold to the Onofrio Scarciglia da Lecce family and then to the Rugge family, to finally be purchased by the Provincial Administration of Lecce by which it still depends today.

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Location: Vernole, Lecce, Apulia, Italy

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Acaya Castle and Walled Village

1. The Le Cesine Nature Reserve and the fortified village of Acaya – loop tour from San Cataldo

2. Central Salento – loop tour from Lecce

3. Torre dell'Orso cliff viewpoint – Mouth of the Alimini Lakes loop from Lecce

Other Popular Places to Check Out

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