Tricase is a town and ''

comune The (; plural: ) is a local administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions ('' regioni'') and provinces (''province''). The can also ...

'' in the

province of Lecce The Province of Lecce ( it, Provincia di Lecce; Salentino: ) is a province in the Apulia region of Italy whose capital is the city of Lecce. The province is called the "Heel of Italy". Located on the Salento peninsula, it is the second most-p ...

, part of the

Apulia it, Pugliese , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographic ...

region of south-east

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. It is located in the

Salento Salento (Salentino: ''Salentu'', Salentino Griko: ''Σαλέντο'') is a cultural, historical and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apulia in Southern Italy. It is a sub-peninsula of the Italian Peninsula, ...

traditional region. In Tricase have

Cardinale Giovanni Panico General Hospital Cardinale Giovanni Panico General Hospital is a big medical center in Tricase, Apulia. History The hospital was officially founded in 1967 from Marcelline's sisters of Tricase for will of Cardinale Giovanni Panico. Before the opening, till ...

. The area that is in between Otranto and

Santa Maria di Leuca Santa Maria di Leuca, often spelled simply Leuca (, from ''Leukos'', "white"), is a '' frazione'' of the '' comune'' of Castrignano del Capo, in the Salento peninsula ( Apulia), southern Italy. A part of the town once belonged to the ''comune'' o ...

is part of the Regional Natural Coastal Park of "Costa Otranto -

e Bosco di Tricase" wanted by the

Region in 2008. This territory has numerous natural and historical attractions such as Ciolo, which is a rocky cove.

History

Tricase is the site of a

castle A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders. Scholars debate the scope of the word ''castle'', but usually consider it to be the private fortified r ...

and of a ''

Quercia Vallonea ''Quercus macrolepis'', the Valonia oak, is a species of oak in the beech family, Fagaceae. Formerly, it was commonly treated as a subspecies of the closely related and sympatric mount Tabor oak. At present, however, it is mostly granted speci ...

'', an oak which is amongst the oldest trees in Italy, dating from the 13th century.

References

External links

Official website
Cities and towns in Apulia Localities of Salento Displaced persons camps in the aftermath of World War II {{Apulia-geo-stub