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  • Vitigliano, Salento. A modern dolmen (2005, 2005,  Virgilio Pozzoleo) commemorating the popular theatre's actor Carmelo Bene, born in Salento. Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
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  • Vitigliano, Salento. A modern dolmen (2005, 2005,  Virgilio Pozzoleo) commemorating the popular theatre's actor Carmelo Bene, born in Salento. Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123027.jpg
  • Vitigliano, Salento. A modern dolmen (2005, 2005,  Virgilio Pozzoleo) commemorating the popular theatre's actor Carmelo Bene, born in Salento. Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123026.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. Menhir Vicinanze 2 in the "Menhir Garden." Probably many menhir have been recyclated in Christian times but Salento still preserves many megalithic monuments.
    em7123022.jpg
  • Poggiardo, Salento. For the Menhirs Friends association these stone walls represent old sacred "Water Roads"   of the Stone Age, utilized to look for water in  drought times. The Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123040.jpg
  • Minervino, Salento. Dolmen Li Scusi. The Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123012-Edit.jpg
  • Minervino, Salento. Dolmen Li Scusi. The Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123007.jpg
  • St Cesario, Salento, The "Taste Museum" founded by Titti Pece, history's and art expert, is dedicated to promote the rich Salento's food culture.
    em7123356.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. Menhir Vicinanze 2 in the "Menhir Garden." Probably many menhir have been recyclated in Christian times but Salento still preserves many megalithic monuments.
    em7123021.jpg
  • Sanarica, Salento. Menhir. Probably many menhir have been recyclated in Christian times but Salento still preserves many megalithic monuments.
    em7123034.jpg
  • Sanarica, Salento. Menhir. Probably many menhir have been recyclated in Christian times but Salento still preserves many megalithic monuments.
    em7123033.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. Menhirs Garden, St Paul's menhir with a altar with religious paintings of St Paul and a Spyder symbolising the local tarantism cult), a real syncretic image of the popular region of Salento, that still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123024.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. Menhir Vicinanze 2 in the "Menhir Garden." Probably many menhir have been recyclated in Christian times but Salento still preserves many megalithic monuments.
    em7123019.jpg
  • Minervino, Salento. Dolmen Li Scusi. The Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123013.jpg
  • St Cesario, Salento, The "Taste Museum" founded by Titti Pece, history's and art expert, is dedicated to promote the rich Salento's food culture.
    em7123359.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. Dolmen Stabile. The Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123018.jpg
  • St Cesario, Salento, The "Taste Museum" founded by Titti Pece, history's and art expert, is dedicated to promote the rich Salento's food culture.
    em7123354.jpg
  • Minervino, Salento. Dolmen Li Scusi. The Salento still preserves megalithic monuments belonging to the bronze age (about 1800 bc.).
    em7123008.jpg
  • St Cesario, Salento, The "Taste Museum" founded by Titti Pece, history's and art expert, is dedicated to promote the rich Salento's food culture.
    em7123360.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125838.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125831.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125825.jpg
  • Felline. Antonio Cossa is one of the most  famous craftsmen and ceramic makers of this small town and of Salento.
    em7125787.jpg
  • Galatina, the cathedral. The city is among the most important cities in Salento
    em7125651.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125836.jpg
  • Muro Leccese, Salento. For the Menhirs Friends Association this stone is a old Megalithic altar near the St Marina church (IX-XI cent.).
    em7123045.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. The Menhir Vicinanze 1  in the "Menhirs Garden" where the peasants sculpted Christian crosses probably to save these venerated monuments from the destruction as pagan symbols.
    em7123023.jpg
  • Ugento. Cripta del Crocifisso, is a small underground church with beautiful frescoes (XIII-XVII cent.) The red and black crosses are traditionally  to the Teutonics Knights and Templar Knights, because Salento was on the road to Santa Maria di Leuca, the main harbour for Palestine and Jerusalem.
    em7125704.jpg
  • Felline. Antonio Cossa is one of the most  famous craftsmen and ceramic makers of this small town and of Salento.
    em7125778.jpg
  • Felline, a small town of Salento with the traditional decorations for the local saint celebration.
    em7125769.jpg
  • Galatina. The Pasticciotto is a typical sweet of Salento. Anzalone pastry shop in Galatina opened in 1740.
    em7125695.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. Menhir street. This village has the largest menhir collection of Apulia, nicknamed as "Menhirs Garden".
    em7123006.jpg
  • Felline. Antonio Cossa is one of the most  famous craftsmen and ceramic makers of this small town and of Salento.
    em7125786.jpg
  • Felline, a small town of Salento with the traditional decorations for the local saint celebration.
    em7125772.jpg
  • Ugento. Cripta del Crocifisso, is a small underground church with beautiful frescoes (XIII-XVII cent.) The red and black crosses are traditionally  to the Teutonics Knights and Templar Knights, because Salento was on the road to Santa Maria di Leuca, the main harbour for Palestine and Jerusalem.
    em7125706.jpg
  • Galatina, the cathedral. The city is among the most important cities in Salento
    em7125684-1-2.jpg
  • Galatina, the cathedral. The city is among the most important cities in Salento
    em7125681.jpg
  • Galatina, the cathedral. The city is among the most important cities in Salento
    em7125644.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125828.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125827.jpg
  • Giurdignano, Salento. Menhir street. This village has the largest menhir collection of Apulia, nicknamed as "Menhirs Garden".
    em7123001.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125839.jpg
  • Galatina, the cathedral. The city is among the most important cities in Salento
    em7125688.jpg
  • Presicce, a historical town of Salento with many old mansions.
    em7125826.jpg
  • Galatina, the cathedral. The city is among the most important cities in Salento
    em7125643.jpg
  • Galatina, the cathedral. The city is among the most important cities in Salento
    em7125647.jpg
  • Ugento. Archeological Museum. Founded in 1968, this museum is placed in a former 1400s Franciscan convent. It hosts archeological finds dated back between VII Century b.C. and I Century, as well as a rich Messapi collection.
    em7125717.jpg
  • Galatina.In the old times the tarantulees, after having danced for a long time, meet together in the chapel of Saint Paul.
    em7125682.jpg
  • Galatina, near the small church of St. Paul the  school's  students remembering the Tarantism, an alleged envenomation, popularly believed to result from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a "tarantula". The condition was common in southern Italy, mainly around Galatina, until 40 year ago. There were strong suggestions that there was no organic cause for the heightened excitability that gripped the victims. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. As a climax, "the tarantulees, after having danced for a long time, meet together in the chapel of Saint Paul and communally attain the paroxysm of their trance. The phenomenon of tarantism is consistent with mass psychogenic illness.
    em7125665.jpg
  • Galatina. The late Romanesque church of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria (1390 A.D.) with a fine portal and rose-window.
    em7125677.jpg
  • Galatina, near the small church of St. Paul the  school's  students remembering the Tarantism, an alleged envenomation, popularly believed to result from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a "tarantula". The condition was common in southern Italy, mainly around Galatina, until 40 year ago. There were strong suggestions that there was no organic cause for the heightened excitability that gripped the victims. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. As a climax, "the tarantulees, after having danced for a long time, meet together in the chapel of Saint Paul and communally attain the paroxysm of their trance. The phenomenon of tarantism is consistent with mass psychogenic illness.
    em7125662.jpg
  • Santa Maria di Leuca. Punta Meliso promontory is the southeastern extremity of Italy — traditionally considered the lowest point of the geographical "heel" of Italian peninsula, as well as the meeting point of the waters from the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea. <br />
Since October 2006 its territory is part of the Regional Park "Costa Otranto - Santa Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase". Santa Maria di Leuca's littoral is marked by numerous grottoes with Latin and Greek inscriptions.
    em7125634.jpg
  • Presicce. The main church (Chiesa Madre).
    em7125821.jpg
  • Presicce. The main church (Chiesa Madre).
    em7125820.jpg
  • Casarano. Santa Maria della Croce church (450 A.C.) , byzantine mosaics.
    em7125848.jpg
  • Presicce. The underground oil mills (once called underground trappiti because they were 5-6 metres deep) were dug into the rock. They are evidence of the rural economy around the year 1500 and they show the difficult life of the countryside people of those times. Inside the mill there was enough space to take the olives which were then crushed.
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  • Castro, the Cathedral.
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  • Castro, the Cathedral.
    em7125804.jpg
  • Salve. City historical center.
    em7125742.jpg
  • Santa Maria di Leuca. Punta Meliso promontory is the southeastern extremity of Italy — traditionally considered the lowest point of the geographical "heel" of Italian peninsula, as well as the meeting point of the waters from the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea. <br />
Since October 2006 its territory is part of the Regional Park "Costa Otranto - Santa Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase". Santa Maria di Leuca's littoral is marked by numerous grottoes with Latin and Greek inscriptions.
    em7125625.jpg
  • Presicce. The underground oil mills (once called underground trappiti because they were 5-6 metres deep) were dug into the rock. They are evidence of the rural economy around the year 1500 and they show the difficult life of the countryside people of those times. Inside the mill there was enough space to take the olives which were then crushed.
    em7125809.jpg
  • Salve. B&B Anticadimora dei Pepe in the old Baroque mansion of Palazzo Ceuli.
    em7125746.jpg
  • Salve. The main square with St Leone Magno column
    em7125737.jpg
  • Castro. Piccolo Mondo hotel.
    em7125860.jpg
  • Castro. Piccolo Mondo hotel.
    em7125859.jpg
  • Specchia, the city historical center.
    em7125856.jpg
  • Presicce.
    em7125841.jpg
  • Castro. The old town and  the traditional decorations for the local saint celebration.
    em7125796.jpg
  • Ugento. Archeological Museum. Founded in 1968, this museum is placed in a former 1400s Franciscan convent. It hosts archeological finds dated back between VII Century b.C. and I Century, as well as a rich Messapi collection.
    em7125727.jpg
  • Ugento. City center.
    em7125707.jpg
  • Galatina. The late Romanesque church of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria (1390 A.D.) with a fine portal and rose-window.
    em7125673.jpg
  • Galatina. The late Romanesque church of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria (1390 A.D.) with a fine portal and rose-window.
    em7125671.jpg
  • Santa Maria di Leuca. Grotta delle Vore. Leuca is the southeastern extremity of Italy — traditionally considered the lowest point of the geographical "heel" of Italian peninsula, as well as the meeting point of the waters from the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea. <br />
Since October 2006 its territory is part of the Regional Park "Costa Otranto - Santa Maria di Leuca e Bosco di Tricase". Santa Maria di Leuca's littoral is marked by numerous grottoes with Latin and Greek inscriptions.
    em7125624.jpg
  • Santa Maria di Leuca is famous for its lighthouse, which, with its height of 47 metre and its position at 102 metre above sea level, is one of the most important ones in Italy. Next to the lighthouse is the large Sanctuary, or Basilica, De Finibus Terrae ("End of the Land", 1720-1755), built to commemorate the passage of St. Peter here. Punta Meliso promontory ( is the southeastern extremity of Italy — traditionally considered the lowest point of the geographical "heel" of Italian peninsula, as well as the meeting point of the waters from the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea.
    em7125601.jpg
  • Galatina, near the small church of St. Paul the  school's  students remembering the Tarantism, an alleged envenomation, popularly believed to result from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a "tarantula". The condition was common in southern Italy, mainly around Galatina, until 40 year ago. There were strong suggestions that there was no organic cause for the heightened excitability that gripped the victims. The stated belief of the time was that victims needed to engage in frenzied dancing to prevent death from tarantism. As a climax, "the tarantulees, after having danced for a long time, meet together in the chapel of Saint Paul and communally attain the paroxysm of their trance. The phenomenon of tarantism is consistent with mass psychogenic illness.
    em7125660.jpg
  • Santa Maria di Leuca is famous for its lighthouse, which, with its height of 47 metre and its position at 102 metre above sea level, is one of the most important ones in Italy. Next to the lighthouse is the large Sanctuary, or Basilica, De Finibus Terrae ("End of the Land", 1720-1755), built to commemorate the passage of St. Peter here. Punta Meliso promontory ( is the southeastern extremity of Italy — traditionally considered the lowest point of the geographical "heel" of Italian peninsula, as well as the meeting point of the waters from the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea.
    em7125602.jpg
  • Presicce. The underground oil mills (once called underground trappiti because they were 5-6 metres deep) were dug into the rock. They are evidence of the rural economy around the year 1500 and they show the difficult life of the countryside people of those times. Inside the mill there was enough space to take the olives which were then crushed.
    em7125811.jpg
  • Salve. St Leone Magno church.
    em7125749.jpg
  • Ugento. Archeological Museum. Founded in 1968, this museum is placed in a former 1400s Franciscan convent. It hosts archeological finds dated back between VII Century b.C. and I Century, as well as a rich Messapi collection.
    em7125721.jpg
  • Ugento. Archeological Museum. Founded in 1968, this museum is placed in a former 1400s Franciscan convent. It hosts archeological finds dated back between VII Century b.C. and I Century, as well as a rich Messapi collection.
    em7125713.jpg
  • Galatina.In the old times the tarantulees, after having danced for a long time, meet together in the chapel of Saint Paul.
    em7125683.jpg
  • Santa Maria di Leuca is famous for its lighthouse, which, with its height of 47 metre and its position at 102 metre above sea level, is one of the most important ones in Italy. Next to the lighthouse is the large Sanctuary, or Basilica, De Finibus Terrae ("End of the Land", 1720-1755), built to commemorate the passage of St. Peter here. Punta Meliso promontory ( is the southeastern extremity of Italy — traditionally considered the lowest point of the geographical "heel" of Italian peninsula, as well as the meeting point of the waters from the Adriatic Sea and the Ionian Sea.
    em7125605.jpg
  • Salve. The main square.
    em7125739.jpg
  • Ugento. Archeological Museum. Founded in 1968, this museum is placed in a former 1400s Franciscan convent. It hosts archeological finds dated back between VII Century b.C. and I Century, as well as a rich Messapi collection.
    em7125719.jpg
  • Ugento. City center.
    em7125709.jpg
  • Galatina. The late Romanesque church of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria (1390 A.D.) with a fine portal and rose-window.
    em7125672.jpg
  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
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  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123153.jpg
  • Castrì di Lecce, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123142.jpg
  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123149.jpg
  • Castrì di Lecce, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123139.jpg
  • Castrì di Lecce, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123137.jpg
  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7213178.jpg
  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123157.jpg
  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123155.jpg
  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123152.jpg
  • Caprarica, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123150.jpg
  • Castrì di Lecce, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123145.jpg
  • Castrì di Lecce, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123144.jpg
  • Castrì di Lecce, Salento. Secular olive trees. The olive tree is surely the most diffused plant of the whole Salento, and probably it is the plant  that better represents the Mediterranean civilization. Of the 60 millions of Apulia's olive trees at least five are protected by the regional law.
    em7123143.jpg
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