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Salento of the Murge: identity card.

  A few weeks ago, a network of small companies started building a Tourist Area Brand in the Salento delle Murge area. “Salento delle Murge” is one of the 11 sub-regions into which the Apulian territory is divided as well…

THE “TAGGHJATE”

The San Giorgio Jonico quarries, better known as the “tagghjate”, are located on the western slope of Mount Belvedere and are an important example of proto-industrial archaeology as well as represent a fascinating landscape of the Ionian municipality. They owe…

MADONNA DELLE GRAZIE (OUR LADY OF GRACE)

  On the outskirts of San Marzano, in a landscape of ravines, sunken plateaus and small circumscribed valleys known as lame, is the rock church Madonna delle Grazie (Our Lady of Grace), set five meters deep, with its evocative appearance…

MADONNA DI PASANO (Virgin of Pasano) NEAR SAVA

    On provincial road 118, leading from Sava to Lizzano, about 4 km from the village, the Sanctuary dedicated to the Virgin of Pasano is located. The site was already inhabited in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times, as evidenced…