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素晴らしい場所です。Sant'Antonio alla Macchiaの聖域の近くには、非常に楽しいXCマウンテンバイクコースがあります。

functioning water fountain in the historic center of Oria, in the square of the Episcopal Seminary

Cathedral of Oria, dedicated to the Madonna Assunta. It preserves the identity memory of the city and the diocese. Among other relics, the statues of the Patrons, San Barsanofio and the five Santi Medici brothers. From the cathedral you can access the famous crypt of the mummies

In some parts the sand on the trail is quite thick: if you are travelling with a very heavy bike it might be better to push it.

The Salina dei monaci of Torre Colimena is a small earthly paradise located on the Ionian coast of Salento a few kilometers from Porto Cesareo

A pleasant medieval village. In addition to the historic center and the very characteristic Jewish quarter, the Castello Svevo and the Cathedral of S. Maria Assunta are definitely worth a visit.

One of the many coastal towers in the area. Among the most beautiful and imposing.

COLIMENA TOWER The Colimena cove was chosen as the highest lookout point by the engineer Giovanni Maria Tommaso Scala, responsible for designing new watchtowers. A small tower already existed, but for economic reasons, it was decided to preserve it and incorporate it into the base of the new one, completed in 1570. From that moment on, Torre Colimena represented a fully-fledged defense structure, with its harquebusiers, machicolations and falconate and access regulated by retractable ladders. Its garrison was entrusted to a tower keeper with the rank of corporal, accompanied by companeros with whom he monitored the horizon to promptly warn of the arrival of the enemy with alarm signals (smoke during the day, fires at night, shots from stone cannons and the sounds of the trumpet). Once the Turkish danger had subsided, in 1730, the tower passed into the custody of Giulio Briganti; in 1777 to that of the soldiers of the Invalid Regiment; in 1820 to the Customs Guards and then went through a period of abandonment, until it was entrusted in 1877 to a Brigade