Cenate is a village in

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, southern

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, a ''

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'' of the municipality of

Nardò Nardò ( la, Neritum or ; cms, Nareton) is a town and ''comune'' in the southern Italian region of Apulia, in the Province of Lecce. Lies on a lowland area placed at south-west of its Province, its border includes part of the Ionian coast of S ...

Main sights

It is famous for its noble villas (c. twenty in number) built from the 15th to the early 20th centuries. The most notable are the ''Villa del Vescovo'', the summer residence of the

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and the ''Villa Taverna'', the most ancient one.

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