Published in The New Country on 23 genneio 2011
places of Salento / Ugento
This Sunday, the window of a camera to the South ", which overlooks the picturesque main square in the center of S. Vincent, dominated by neo-classical eighteenth-century cathedral, are trying to unravel fascinating glimpses of an urban village located deep in the southern territory of the Province. A few kilometers from the Ionian coast and prominent on that extension area which includes the villages of Gemini, Torre San Giovanni and the Torre Marine wander cut off and Lido Marini nell'ondulato educational and historical-cultural City of Ugento.Ignota is from dell'Ercole bearded portrayed as a symbol of the city hall and in the banner for this reason, the hypotheses on the origin of the ancient foundation of the local historians are always uncertain and contradictory. Heavy and monolithic are the tracks that serve to place in the historical evolution of Ugento time, and Thus we learn that, near a path amidst the neat vineyards near the road to Tauranga, the rest consisting of well-squared walls messapica probably built in the mid-fourth century BC to about 145 hectares. Survived the hostilities between the Romans and Carthaginians in 82 BC, the city of Ugento was elevated to the Roman town and grew from that time onwards, along the limes territorial small "urban" as Paternò, Gemini (Gemini ), and Varano Pompignano . The dramatic barbarian invasions started during the first decade of the fourth century AD left the place to a most prosperous period, who lived during the Norman domination domine year 1020, to witness this, return to the cult Ugento Latin manifesto with the re-established a bishopric and later in 1642 for the Earl Vaaz De Andrada we are witnessing the reconstruction of the new Castle set up a national architectural lines squat and austere. In the heart of the historic center and among the bustling suburbs of the country is divided, as above, a number of important historical and cultural hubs to retrace and understand, almost chronologically, the slow and varied historiographical evolution of the area. Among the numerous ports of time, that bring us in direct contact with history, mention the tomb of Via Salento, the Roman and medieval artisan quarter, the Necropolis, the Crypt of the cross, that of the Church of Our Lady of Constantinople, the Dovecote The parts of the walls messapiche, the Domus urban Castle and Museum of Archaeology and paleontologia.In this paper reported that, near the Roman road network Trajan-Sallentino (trail preferred by medieval pilgrims to the shrine of Leuca) where there is the crypt of the cross, is the small church dedicated to St. Maria of Constantinople dated in the early seventeenth. Currently, the church, structurally incorporated in Colonial Crosses (XVIII century), has a rectangular nave covered with a barrel vault. In the charming interior completely frescoed by the noisy and crowded and numerous figures of saints, is heard from the bottom center of the wall, a hiss of composure from the lips of the Virgin sitting heavily on the throne of Constantinople (1619), at a stroke, that mutes the sound thin authoritarian divine voices. The rest of the painting program, located below the Virgin, depicting the burning of a building, through the intercession of the said title was miraculously saved. Before concluding, we recall that the premises of the old Colonial Crucifixes, keep a realistic cast of a young skeleton found during some work. The skeleton of some 23 centuries ago, was found under a pile of stones turned face down with his skull smashed and numerous multiple fractures to the upper and lower limbs, and the macabre discovery curious since that unfortunate corpse was thrown in at no funeral a place far from the usual places of burial.
Giuseppe Arnesano
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