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Salento to be discovered |
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| The countries
of Greece Salentina |
The Salento represents
a very rich land where uses and
customs are derived from millenarians
traditions. The salentina's Greece
is an island remained intact in
the centuries from when the first
Greeks arrived in Salento; it
guards its identity preciously.
According to the legend the first
Greeks arrived in the Salento
after the fall of the mythical
Ilio, with the cretese king Idomeneo,
spouse of the beautiful Euippa,
daughter of Malennio (for the
patriotic legend, first king of
the Salento,). Today Greece is
constituted by nine commons. Whic
are: Calimera, Castrignano of
the Greeks, Corigliano of Otranto,
Martano, Martignano, Melpignano,
Sternatia, Soleto and Zollino.
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| Calimera |
In Greek means
"good morning" and rises
on ancient messapic road which
connected Lecce to Otranto. The
most famous monuments are: the
Church Matrice of Saint Brizio,
that rises where anciently there
was a temple of Greek ritual and
a church of XVIII century dedicated
to San Antonio. In the chapel
of San Vito a monolith called
"love sacred forum"
rises from the pavement; it was
used in the ceremony of the fecundity
that saw the young spouses as
protagonists.
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| Castrignano
de Greeks |
Its name would
derive from the Latin "castrum"
(encampment) or from the Greek
"kastron" (castle) but
the village offers an historical
center characterised by a medieval
plant and from numerous hourses
to court. The most interesting
monuments in Castrignano are:
the Park of the Pozzelle, destined
to pick rain; the baronial Castle,
cited in one parchment from Carlo
d'Angiò, in ancient time
encircled from ditch and equipped
of a drawbridge.
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| Zollino |
It was strongly
influenced by the Greek domination
in language, in the uses, the
customs and the culture and the
first human installations in the
zone quite goes back to the age
of the bronze. It celebrates,
the"Monolith Zollino"
directly fixed on the cliff and
high approximately 4,3 meters,
and the "Menhir Sant'Anna"
that, in ancient time, had a funeral
function , in memory of the defunct
people of noble origin.
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| Martignano |
Its origins are
Byzantine. The testimonies from
to the medieval period attest
in the zone the presence of a
"scriptorium" depending
from the Abbey of Saint Nicholas
of Casole. Valuable, the Chapel
of the Conella of the end of'500
and the wonderful ones frescoes,
guarded in the CHAPEL of S. Giovanni
Batiste 1621, only testimony of
the biography of the Saint, (from
birth until the tragic decapitation).
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