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Papier-mâché is typical of the Lecce and Salento area. The shops that populate the historic center of the capital show cribs and characters in various poses produced with this simple material. Art imported in the 1600s from the Neapolitan used to depict saints, still exhibited in the churches of the region, and carried in procession on public holidays.
Numerous caves that of the Poetry in Roca, the Grotta dei Cervi in Porto Badisco, del Cavallo in the bay of Uluzzu mark the settlement of populations in ancient times.
When the sun has placed the most pungent rays, September and still the sea arrive but more enjoyable. The vines have reached their highest point of growth, and the harvest will soon begin.
It was the Saracens who started the olive cultivation in the Salento, from historical evidence of the second half of the 1700s we learn that the region was covered with olive groves.
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La Cartapesta, a trade with 400 years of age
Papier-mâché is typical of the Lecce and Salento area. The shops that populate the historic center of the capital show cribs and characters in various poses produced with this simple material. Art imported in the 1600s from the Neapolitan used to depict saints, still exhibited in the churches of the region, and carried in procession on public holidays.
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Numerous caves that of the Poetry in Roca, the Grotta dei Cervi in Porto Badisco, del Cavallo in the bay of Uluzzu mark the settlement of populations in ancient times.
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