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Otranto. The Cathedral's mosaic floor in policrome local limestone, Charlemagne or Roland. The mosaic has been executed between a 1163 and 1166 from a group of artists leaded from Pantaleone, a monk of the near San Nicholas di Casole monastery. This masterpiece, the only of this kind in Southern Italy, resisted also to the Turkish invasion of 1480. About 800 square meters wide it is extended along the central church navata , representing expressively the Middle Age imaginary.

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Otranto. The Cathedral's mosaic floor in policrome local limestone, Charlemagne or Roland. The mosaic has been executed between a 1163 and 1166 from a group of artists leaded from Pantaleone, a monk of the near San Nicholas di Casole monastery. This masterpiece, the only of this kind in Southern Italy, resisted also to the Turkish invasion of 1480. About 800 square meters wide it is extended along the central church navata , representing expressively the Middle Age imaginary.