The rock settlement of the Loe. La Loe is a torrential shaft that flows into the Gravina at the level of the Pianelle district. Around the canal there are 4 churches and various hypogea, stables and sheepfolds. The group of churches could constitute a monastic settlement of the lauriotic type, organized around a central church, the sanctuary of the Madonna della Murgia or a small rupestrian farmhouse in which, in several phases, several churches follow one another. The structures identified so far in the gully are the crypt of the Canarino, of the Scaletta, of S. Andrea, the sanctuary of the Madonna della Murgia or della Loe; a Neolithic settlement, a considerable number of cisterns, three early medieval necropolises (casket, hypogeum, arcosolium), a defensive wall, a demic settlement, remains of dry construction of the inverted cone type, small tuff and the suggestive road system access.
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