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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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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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Martano, one of the symbolic places of Salento Greece, also widely known internationally, in winter turns out to be a quiet Salento village immersed in its silence and slow rhythms without the lively coming and going of people that swarm the historic core of the summer periods. Early in the morning this state of calm is even more emphasized and is probably the ideal time to cycle through its alleys and enjoy this state of affairs.

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Melendugno Castle dates back to the 1500s and is the symbol of the feudal society which, under the D'Amely family, resisted until the end of the Second World War. It is located in the center of the town but it is not possible to visit the inside.

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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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Included in the Salento Fortifications collection https://www.komoot.it/collection/1396951/-salento-fortificazioni - Built in the 16th century to the current date (May 2022) under full renovation [Source: https://it.m.wikipedia .org/wiki/Castello_di_Melendugno]

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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.

Accordying to the history, was the Roman centurion Martius who founded the place, thanks to a donation of a Salento land as a tribute for the value shown in battle. In the following century, was under the dominion of Greeks and Byzantines that influenced so much the territory and culture, till find even today traces of the 'Grika' language, still speak sometimes by the older people. Infact Martano is one of the nine villages that constitute the hellenophonic area named as 'Grecìa Salentina'. In the historic center you can admire the courtyard houses, typical building of the patriarchal families, around which the houses of the other family's members developed. Still in the center, you can walk with your gaze upwards to grasp valuable architectural elements such as coats of arms, portals and columns that adorn various buildings. Among the monuments worth to be mentioned, there are the baronial palace (once Aragonese castle), the mother church dedicated to Maria Ss. Assunta, the church of S. Maria del Rosario close to the city hall palace (once cloister of the Domenicani monks) and the chapels of the Madonna del Carmine and Immacolata Concezione, dating back to the end of the XVII century.

The origins of the structure date back to the end of the XIII century. In 1480, following the Turkish offensive on Otranto, the Castle of Martano, in which the inhabitants had taken refuge, also suffered considerable damage. Fortunately, the following year, thanks to the reconquest by the Aragonese, the fortress was rebuilt and enlarged. The new construction was joined to the ancient city walls and correlated with five towers, of which only two have survived until today. In the second half of the 1600s, the Trani family transformed the Aragonese Castle into a Baronial Palace by renovating the old façade and creating an entrance door embellished with inclined ashlars. Inside the building, it's possible to admire the remarkable decorations of the staircase, as well as the fascinating majolica flooring and the frescoed vaults. Further stylistic changes and enrichments have continued over the last two centuries in conjunction with the succession of various noble families.

This tower of about 12 m with a particular four-pointed star plan, takes its name from the last feudal family that owned it. Also known as "Castello di Melendugno", its original construction dates back to the mid-16th century and was commissioned by Pompeo Paladini, the seventh baron of Melendugno and Lizzanello, who commissioned it to the military engineer Gian Giacomo di Acaya.

The Castle is built where once stood the small medieval settlement Segine, a center that in 1535 took the name of Acaya from the baronial family owned.

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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.