Melendugno
240px, D'Amely baronial Palace. Melendugno (Salentino: or ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy. It is known for its ''marine'', which are bathing beaches on the Adriatic Sea: Roca Vecchia, San Foca, Torre dell'Orso and Torre Sant'Andrea, which were awarded the Blue Flag beach prize for the water quality. Melendugno also includes the ''frazione'' of Borgagne. See also * Torre Sant'Andrea di Missipezza Lighthouse Torre Sant'Andrea di Missipezza Lighthouse ( it, Faro di Torre Sant'Andrea di Missipezza ) is an active lighthouse in the frazione of Torre Sant'Andrea in the municipality of Melendugno. Description The light house consists of a lantern placed ... References Cities and towns in Apulia Localities of Salento Coastal towns in Apulia {{Puglia-geo-stub ...
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Roca Vecchia
Roca (also known as Rocavecchia or Roca Vecchia) is an archaeological site located on the Adriatic coast of Apulia in Southern Italy, a few kilometres from the modern town of Melendugno and close to the city of Lecce. The site, which has been explored since the end of the 1980s by a team of the University of Salento, has produced some of the best-preserved monumental architecture of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) in Southern Italy, along with the largest set of Mycenaean pottery ever recovered west of mainland Greece. The occupation of the site continued also in the Iron Age and Classical times, when a large natural cavity known as Poesia Cave was used for cult practices involving the writing of thousands of dedications to a local deity in three languages: Greek, Messapic and Latin. The site was re-occupied in late medieval times, when a new town was founded by Walter VI, Count of Brienne Walter VI of Brienne (c. 1304 – 19 September 1356) was a French nobleman and cr ...
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