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A beautiful castle with a suggestive façade adorned with numerous statues. Inside the very interesting exhibition of Giuseppe Palumbo, the photographer on a bicycle who documented Salento between 1907 and 1959 and in the various rooms an exhibition path with original images, articles and studies dedicated to the phenomenon of tarantism. A short distance away in the enchanting historic center of Corigliano d'Otranto is the church of San Nicola Vescovo with a valuable mosaic depicting the tree of life.

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Reachable from Lecce with road bike, mountain bike and gravel. 3 fascinating routes

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In the hamlet of the same name in the municipality of Vernole, in the Lecce area, Acaya Castle was built in the 16th century by Gian Giacomo of the Acaya family, on behalf of Charles V, the famous sovereign on whose empire "the sun never set".

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Beautiful castle in Puglia

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The easternmost geographical point of Italy, known for the sea channel in front of the city that separates Italy from Albania.

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Walloon oak approx. *year 1000

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"The Castle of Corigliano d'Otranto represents, according to the words of G. Bacile di Castiglione, the «most beautiful monument of military and feudal architecture of the beginning of the sixteenth century in the Terra d'Otranto», and certainly constitutes the most successful example of the transition from medieval square towers to round Renaissance ones. The adaptation to the new war requirements, with the introduction of gunpowder, therefore led, in the sixteenth century, to the architectural revolution of the castle, which was equipped with a deep moat and agile and effective defensive structures, such as the curtains with battlements and the four circular towers, embellished with friezes, dedicated to four saints linked to four cardinal virtues".

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Beautiful medieval village still surrounded by walls

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Posted in Salento Fortificazioni collection komoot.it/collection/1396951/-salento-fortificazioni. History has it that in the year 1480 the inhabitants of Roca Vecchia were put to flight by the Saracen raids who shortly afterwards left it to its fate. In 1544 the governor of Terra d’Otranto Ferrante Loffredo, by order of Charles V, had it razed to the ground. Because? Because, according to him, it has become a den of pirates dedicated to attacks and raids towards the hinterland ... This is a key to reading history. The other key has it that Roca vecchia was destroyed by the Spanish "faction" of Charles V because it was guilty of being in league with the enemies of the French "faction" of Francis I ...

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Posted in Salento Fortifications collection https://www.komoot.it/collection/1396951/-salento-fortificazioni - Acaya fortified city of the sixteenth century, a rare survivor of its kind in southern Italy. Ideal starting point to immerse yourself in the history of this part of the south-east of Salento.

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Posted in Salento Fortifications collection https://www.komoot.it/collection/1396951/-salento-fortificazioni - Beautiful castle very well maintained and valued is to be counted among the largest in Salento

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Posted in Salento Fortifications collection https://www.komoot.it/collection/1396951/-salento-fortificazioni - Between noble palaces and churches adorned with the famous stone of light and luminous tones, passing through the historic center of Muro Leccese is a pleasant surprise. It deserves attention. Built in the first half of the 16th century on an old medieval pre-existing building, Palazzo dei Principi is a splendid building with an austere façade that stands out in Piazza del Popolo, enriched by a portal with the emblem of the Protonobilissimo dragon and by windows and balconies in Renaissance style [ source: https://www.viaggiareinpuglia.it/at/4/castellotorre/4646/it/Palazzo-del-Principe]

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The built-up area of Muro Leccese has very ancient origins dating back to the Bronze Age. The period of greatest expansion, however, is that of the Messapian era, as evidenced by various archaeological finds. A section of the walls linked to this era is still visible today. The entire village was then destroyed by the Romans in the third century BC and only in the Middle Ages did it again take on an important role in the region.

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Historic center to visit absolutely reached by the bay of the Turks.

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Impressive old castle

The Castle is beautiful. The Borgo is very clean and tidy.

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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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if you cross the village and take the long country road that between fields in bloom and olive trees leads to San Cataldo and the wwf oasis of Cesine

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This medieval village with a thousand-year history has been the subject of multiple studies due to the good preservation of its walls. Thanks to the support of the King of Naples, the local people built it around the XVI century, to protect themselves from the pirate's raids constantly acted at the coastal village of Roca Vecchia. When the inhabitants moved here, the hamlet was divided into four residential structures with a central square for the market (still visible today), a well and a defensive watchtower.

Muro Leccese was one of the most important Messapian centers, of which significant archaeological finds remain.

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