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Calisthenic equipment for fitness exercises

beautiful single track up to torre minervino

The San Vincenzo menhir is one of the tallest megalithic monuments in the Giurdignano area. It is about 3.50 m high, and rests on a rocky bank. It is located in the center of the town not far from the Byzantine crypt of San Salvatore. It has a tapered top with a metal consolidation band.

Menhir located a few meters from the beautiful Byzantine crypt of San Salvatore. Another megalith that contributes to forming the megalithic garden of Italy in this area.

The Minervino Tower is part of a complex of lookout points built by Charles V in the 16th century to prevent attacks by the Saracens. The system guaranteed the possibility of communicating between one tower and another through visual signals, fires at night and smoke during the day, so that the whole coast was alerted as soon as enemy ships were sighted from one of the towers. In this context, the Torre Minervino is fundamental as it manages to cover the sea area around Punta Palascia, the easternmost point of Puglia and Italy. Given the limited space inside the structure, it is believed that the sentries did not stay inside the tower but that they took over for guard duty. The tower was restored around 2010.

Menhirs are monolithic stones placed in a vertical position. The term derives from Breton and combines the two words "stone and long". The menhirs in the Salento area are of very ancient origin (9000/8000 years BC) and their meaning is still unknown today. According to some, these are funerary stems used to indicate the burial of an important person, according to others they are symbols to invoke fertility, while another thesis claims instead that they are sundials used to record the astral phases. Many of these menhirs were then "Christianized" during the Middle Ages with various engravings and additions. The menhir of San Vincenzo is three and a half meters high and, like others, has the widest facades facing north and south.

Nice vantage point

enchanting landscape overlooking the sea ....