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Sun, sea, wind ... the central elements of Salento.
Arrived in Salento, one can not avoid to be caressed by the wind and the sun, get carried by the scent of the flavors and beauty of the landscape.
Nature, this piece of land between two seas ... warm climate, colors, blue sea, indescribable ...
The Salento coast, its beaches, the enchanting waters of the Ionian coast and between Otranto and Santa Maria di Leuca, become poetry between the story of this land ...
Different landscapes, different ... the rugged coastline of Santa Cesarea Terme is opposed to the famous caves of Castro Marina, to go to Grotta Romanelli, one of the most important prehistoric italian sites up to the wonderful and unique beauty "Zinzulusa" cave, the "Pearl of the caves", whose name derives from the dialect " Zinzuli " or rags, with which the fishermen called its beautiful stalactites and stalagmites.
In Salento landscape can not fail to admire the olive trees ... princes of the land, mighty in the land of Salento, majestic, and the tradition of work in many fields of Salento for which agriculture was the only source of income.
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Olives gigantic, at least two thousand years, surprised the tourists, each portrayed as a real architectural complex, which hides "from time to time a white farmhouse", where the edicts of Frederick dominated.
Along those fields under the moonlight, one thinks "something supernatural, mystical." Evocative light grove at night, with moonlight suggest witches and spirits hidden in caves, ancient walls, caves, tombs and in the same trunks of olive trees, once a haven of robbers, and the past lives again imagination: the great vaulted room of the farm, farmers sit on stone benches around olive branches turned upward at the great stone, poor eating "mush boiled beans", then give off the typical dance Salento, «and there was the 'pizzica-pizzica' ballad with all the momentum, and habitual grace in those polite people».
An unusual literary park system is prepared around the olive tree, which unfolds in the Cupa, respecting the ancient Roman road network centuriation and tells the stratification of different cultures: the Messapi, Greek and Roman colonization, during which Lupiae (Lecce) by Octavian is designed to obscure the fame of Brindisi. It consolidates the prestige of a fertile land with a climate conducive to growth olive oil, based on a diverse geological structure, given the predominance of clay and the easy availability of limestone bedrock and clay-limestone magnesifero, stone Lecce (Salento dialect leccisu).
A precious gem, a limestone belonging to the group of calcarenites and marly dating back to the Miocene period. It is a typical rock formation of the Salento region, known for its malleability and ease of processing. Lecce stone emerges naturally from the ground and is derived from underground in huge open pits, depths of up to fifty meters and spread over the whole Salento territory, especially in the towns of Lecce, Corigliano d'Otranto, Melpignano, sweaters and Cursi.
The "leccisu" is obtained in the form of blocks of various sizes; extraction is easy, because it is easy to hack. Hardness and resistance to stone, once extracted, they grow with the passage of time, and in consolidating the stone takes on a shade of amber color similar to honey.
Lecce stone is found in art baroque examples are the friezes, capitals, pinnacles and rosettes that decorate many churches and palaces of Lecce, such as the Palace of Celestine and the adjacent "Santa Croce" Church, the Church of Santa Chiara and the Duomo.
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