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Published in The New Country January 16, 2011

places of Salento / Novoli

On the day of "the great Saint Anthony the Hermit," this Sunday we visit the park located in the City of Novoli social of Negroamaro and forming part, together with other municipalities in the northern province of Valle

of Cupa. Despite the origins of the name are not very reliable, local historians put forward different hypotheses about the derivation semantics and a first interpretation refers to the wording Latin Novulum, Ried (tilth, field left empty) pronounced in the local jargon, and according to official documents use the name of Santa Maria de Novis. one time, according to the sources of local historical Marciano, Santa Maria de Novis was founded by the inhabitants of the neighboring house Porziano who left the original hostile land to settle in what is now the current Novoli. Before you walk the roads of the "beautiful country" to discover the Church of Sant'Antonio Abate, declared magnanimous protector of the community by the then bishop of Lecce Louis Pa ppacoda in 1664, remembers that Novoli is devoted to various holy figures, and to confirm that there are many churches built in between 500 and 600 some of which restored on earlier buildings.

These included the titulus of the church of St. Mary Mother of God , now known as the Immaculate Conception Church and located in the heart of historic Vico Mazzotti, the sacred edifice is proof ancient local architectural heritage, are kept within this two frescoes dating Byzantine age, one depicting the Madonna and Child Enthroned dated to the early fourteenth century, the other hand it retains only a fragment depicting an angel with a female figure with a halo probably attributable to the thirteenth century, this originally titled Hospitality of Abraham is a result of subsequent studies, recognized as a fragment of the representation of the Mother of the Risen was commemorated in the church as the Feast of Mater Dei on Tuesday of Easter, the celebration that corresponds with that of Mother of the Risen of the Byzantine liturgical calendar.

Through the long road that leads from fields in the heart of Salento Novoli, continue on Via San Paolo, where the holy "warrior" gives witness to St. Anthony "Fire" on its way, the original structure of the Church St. Anthony is prior to 1640 while the building currently visible dates from the eighteenth and nineteenth century. The main facade is characterized by an anonymous neoclassical framed by four pilasters with Doric capitals on which it is a powerful drum set at the center of which is set a watch of the thirties of the twentieth century. Once through the entrance by flying bronze, admire the traditional pattern of three naves, where the bottom of the left stands the statue in the niche with papier mache of the saint in whose honor is turned on high "Focara" archaic origins probably dating from the fifteenth century.

Giuseppe Arnesano