places of Salento / Supersano
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| crypt of the Shrine |
"February is a month of languor, heart the world is heavy, yet unaware of the vigorous and restless April May. " With the verses of the French writer William Somerset Maugham inaugurating the first Sunday of the month after covering the SS-shirts in the heart of Serre di Leuca, where the forest once thrived Belvedere halfway between the two seas will dock in the Municipality of survivors. Hypothetically the name of the town derives from sanu ( m) refers to the "authenticity" of the climate since, on those atavistic and unspoiled land lies the legendary green and Belvedere Woods at the same time place rough and not very livable.
Slowly the story gives us useful clues and traces to reconstruct quell'esteso mosaic that depicts the evolution of our civilization, and it is only through the invaluable contribution of the "Search" if we can to observe and understand the past. The first discoveries, some of which are still more primordial eras taken into account, are related to a human presence on the Archaic Age (VI-V century BC), in other cases, always after the necessary steps of the University of Lecce, we are aware of two sites, one related to the Neolithic period and the second is placed an appropriation in the Hellenistic dated between the fourth and third century BC C.
At the time of the Byzantines in Salento, probably the life of these "primitive" civilization was active near the marsh located at the Forest Sombrin Belvedere, in the industrial area known as Supersano " Scorpio ", were found some evidence of human settlement in late medieval age, namely the huts (Grubenhauser) similar to other examples recovered in northern Europe. The place of discovery, or in the "sand Cutrofiano" have been discovered tools and other objects that are think about the potential of flax cultivation and processing in the camps of the primordial Supersano.
However, the first documented feud is more than the 1195 part of the principality of Taranto, when Emperor Frederick I of Sweden gave it to his eldest son Henry VI.
Currently residing in Piazza IV Novembre, the massive castle feudal architecturally suited to the "styles" of the medieval Normans in Salento, the offices of the City of Supersano; the keep remains of the original nucleus, characterized by the tower Central incorporated defensive structures in a later period. At the same time and report the "Motta di Specchia Torricella", circular artificial hill marked by the remains of a tower that stood on top of it, from the defensive tower of wood, you could see much of the surrounding area. Covering the area of \u200b\u200bRemembrance Supersano along that route at that time called "mysterious", we arrive at the foot of the staircase that leads us to the eighteenth-century Sanctuary of Our Lady of Coelimanna.
The context in which it has developed the presence of the shrine, enriched by the fascinating crypt and two decorations Byzantine wall of the first dated to the thirteenth century and the second later, concerns the activities of the community of Byzantine monks, particularly fervent in the ninth and the fourteenth century to the wooded slopes of the Serra.
The most reliable source of Coelimanna as regards the presence of the Tree of Manna (Fraxinus Orus, plant of the family Oleaceae, known as Flowering ash or d Orno ) Supersano in the countryside, probably from the tree above, the first monastic communities were able to extract the Manna (sugar substance called manna that flows from incisions in the bark) known for its medicinal herbs and medicines. Before concluding, we can not quote the myth that an unknown Roman prince suffering from an incurable disease, was miraculously cured by the presence of the Virgin with the titulus of svelatasi Coelimanna, so the "miracle" that place a monument erected in perennial. Other legends tell us that, right on the fork-Supersano Casarano during the trot, the horse of the "miracle prince Roman ", decided to stop and bow down on their front legs as a sign of devotion and thanksgiving .
Giuseppe Arnesano
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