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Salentino
Salentino () is a dialect of the Extreme Southern Italian ( in Italian) spoken in the Salento peninsula, which is the southern part of the region of Apulia at the southern "heel" of the Italian peninsula.
Overview
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province of Lecce in the
Apulia
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region of south-east
Italy
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Main sights
*Mother Church of St. Michael Archangel (1564), with a late Renaissance façade and a single nave. The entrance portal has the inscription ''Terribilis est locus iste'' ("Terrible Is This Place").
*Church of San Giovanni Battista, in Byzantine-Romanesque style (10th-11th centuries)
*Church of the Madonna di Vereto.
*Crypt of Sant'Elia, built by
Basilian monks
Basilian monks are Roman Catholic monks who follow the rule of Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea (330–379). The term 'Basilian' is typically used only in the Catholic Church to distinguish Greek Catholic monks from other forms of monastic li ...
in the 8th-9th centuries.
*Torre del Fortino, the last surviving of the four towers of the destroyed castle.
*Archaeological site of Vereto, a
Messapic ancient town
*''Centopietre'' ("Hundred Stones"), a tomb-mausoleum of a knight who was killed by the Saracens before a battle fought nearby in 877.
References
Cities and towns in Apulia
Localities of Salento
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