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Flamegirl Says: Located close to Nardo', these four imposing towers are all that remains of a fortress built in 1600 to protect this area of coastline from Turk and Saracen pirates. The area was particularly attractive to raiders due to a number of freshwater streams; a rare and valuable...
Flamegirl Says: The Messapii, or Messapians, were an advanced yet ancient pre-Roman people who colonised the entire Salentine peninsular, probably crossing over the Adriatic around 1000 BC.Roca (by Melendugno, on the coast east of Lecce) was settled in the Bronze Age and became an important...
Flamegirl Says: Popular these days with the local youths as a place to display their diving skills, this natural rock formation is actually a prime archeological site. In Messapian times (see my other Off the Beaten Track tip for this history in more detail) the cave was probably the...
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I shared a flat with a couple from this area, and they were kind enough to invite me to stay when they went home for the summer. Due to my flatmate's racing-driver tendencies, it was impossible to...
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