_In praise of escapeHistory has been teaching that not always those who flee turn their backs to avoid any danger. In some cases it means that they are allowed to carry out prophetic deeds. Aeneas, for instance, fled from Troy and reached the Italian land. And just there his progeny founded Rome....
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_ In the guardian townTheocritus of Syracuse (315-260 B.C.) imaged Demeter holding spikes and poppies in her hands. And you got to figure out that just before the ancient poet the fields surrounding Torre Santa Susanna (Saint Susan Tower township) disappointed neither the goddess of harvest nor the...
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_ In the wake of two leadersThey are separated by four centuries of history, united by the legend and the ground that they tested. The sword of Giorgio Castriota Skanderbeg (1405-1468) and the blunderbuss of Pizzichicchio (1837-1864) guide the visitor in a land with genes in ancient Illyria, the...
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_ In the illustrious city of Oria Shabbetai Donnolo (913-982) was doctor at the court of Costantinople and the first one to write a medical essay in Medieval Europe. Frederick II, Duke of Swabia, Holy Roman Emperor and eclectic intellectual, was called stupor mundi (the wonder of the world)...
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_ The village of records You know Maruggio's flourishing past by its historic centre. Additionally, its genuine uniqueness lies in the sea, just 2 kms (1.2 mi) away from the old burg, the most beautiful waters in the world, according to Vanity Fair Italian magazine. A crystal-clear water...
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_ Everything just in one place
There is a place where summer holiday package embraces pleasant forms of relaxation lasting up to six months. Here the sea looks like a Caribbean stretch of water and a lagoon for flamingos. What's more, there is a place wherein time has left the millenary...
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_ The colour of the spider
Grey in all its shades, as many as stones can have. Stones that are ruins dating back to the Neolithic, such as basilian crypts and rural constructions similar to the “Trullo”. Or gold like the almond pastries and the homemade pasta on the tables dedicated to...
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_ The Christian Cross and the Sword The great history ran into the fortunes of a little feud. The year was 1278! One day, in Fragagnano, Cardinal Latino Malabranca Orsini blessed a glorious sword that hid holy relics in its hilt. Charles d’Angiò, King of Naples and Jerusalem, was...
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_ Mith, Martyrs and Rock’n’roll
The town named after the mythological Heracles welcomes thousands of people every year. Here, the sacred and the profane exercise their virtues without contrast. The first one attracts for the cult of the martyrs St. Irene and St. Lucy. This last one, in...
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