Gagliano del Capo (source: Visual Puglia )
The town of Gagliano rises at 147 above sea level and is nestled in the hollow defined by its highlands called "Monte Tumasi" and "Monticelli". The municipal territory stretches down to the coast and includes the rural hamlets of Arigliano, San Dana, and Ciolo, characterised by a spectacularly rocky coast and the beauty of some caves of notable historical, artistic, and environmental interest. Not far from the town centre we first find the Marina di Novaglie; the etymology of the name is perhaps linked to the phenomenon that occurred around the 11th century when many lands were cleared for farmlands or "renewed" - as in "nova". Here stand the ruins of an ancient coastal tower (16th century) while beyond lie the natural shelters of primitive man; these are the grottoes of Cipolliane that brought to light a Pleistocenic deposit of the Upper Paleolithic - bowls with mysterious markings and a infinite supply of seashells.
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Sun, sea, wind. Nature strikes in the first place, when one gets to this land stretch in balance between two seas. Salento has its core in the province of Lecce, - a Baroque Florence in Southern Italy – and reaches the provinces of Brindisi over the Adriatic Sea, and Taranto on the Ionian Sea side. The cities and inland towns expressions of the unique Lecce Baroque with Messapi and Salento Grecìa can still be seen. Its language, songs and feasts still show the culture of Graecia Magna. Surf, kite-surf and windsurf lovers never miss the beaches facing the Alimini lakes, while scuba diving fans just have to choose among the several equipped centers and charming sea beds of the Ionian coast as well as of the area between Otranto and Santa Maria di Leuca.
Church and hermitage of Santa Maria of the Angels - Scorrano
Lighthouse and aqueduct - Santa Maria di Leuca
Salento coast is characterized by a high variety in landscapes: the clear, fine sand beaches of Santa Cesarea seafront; famous caves such as Castro cave with its Grotta Romanelli, one of the most important Italian prehistoric settlements, and Grotta Zinzulusa, 'the pearl of caves', owing its name to the dialect word 'zinzuli', ('rags'), used by fishermen to indicate its beautiful stalactites and stalagmites
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Baroque style affirmed in Apulia during Counter-Reformation upon the will of Roman Church. A way of exalting Catholic symbols, Lecce and Nardò Baroque has its own characteristics that make it different from the same artistic style in other regions. Its peculiarities derive from the use of amber-colored Lecce stone as well as decorations used to mask the structures on which they are mounted
In Southern Apulia, at the heart of Salento, nine municipalities united to save what is still left of the ancient Grika culture. In this area of Salento there can still be found traces of Graecia Magna Grika language spoken in the Basilian convents dismantled after the council of Trent
Project created in collaboration with InnovaPuglia.
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