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Pilgrimage to Saint Pio 🚴🙏❤️

Railway underpass at the entrance to Gioia

excursion to the S. Vito forest, Scivolizzo pine forest and Laterza ravine (TA)

Laterza has very ancient origins. The finds that emerged from the excavation work of 1965 testify to the presence of a population that lived in the Neolithic. As regards the name of Laterza, the most suggestive hypothesis would trace the name back to Laertes, father of Ulysses, in whose honor the Cretans, who fled after the war with the Mycenaeans, founded a colony on the spot. The town arose around the year one thousand. Laterza, in 1030, after having been a Lombard-Beneventan dominion, passed to the Normans. In 1060 it was the turn of the Swabians and subsequently of the Angevins. In 1292 the fiefdom was connected to the principality of Taranto. The construction of the castle (Marquis Palace) with a portal from 1393 dates back to this period. In 1541 Pietro Antonio d'Azzia obtained the title of marquis of Laterza, a title which in 1655 passed to the Perez-Navarrete family until 1806, the year in which Feudal rights are abolished and the country passes to the Bourbon kingdom. It will subsequently become part of the Kingdom of Italy. The historic center of Laterza is surrounded by walls, the Castle and the ravine: a deep crevasse originating from the erosion of rocks on pre-existing fractures

Perhaps the route of a disused railway line

Little known compared to other places in Puglia, but the historic center of Laterza, overlooking a beautiful and green ravine, is absolutely worth a visit.

For a break, a stop at the bar, or to stock up on water at the public fountains

Santa Lucia Bridge, a disused railway bridge over the ravine of the same name