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The
geographical position of Muro Leccese is the ideal starting
point to know closely all Salento and your coast, it is about
15 km(8-10 minutes) from Otranto and 20 minutes from Lecce,
Gallipoli and Leuca.
This centre is real museum in the open sky for historical,
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People Square is very
beautiful, it is the symbol of the Leccese stone with the
Prince Palace and frontally situated two church’s
Baroque: the Annunziata Church and Immaculate Church, it
is considered one on the seven baroque stars of Salento.
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The Protonobilissimo
Palace, known as the Prince’s Palace, is
one of the oldest in Muro was built on the side of medieval
castle. Its building dates back to the 16th century and
it was wanted by the Protonobilissimo family. This palace
formed the medieval village together with several little
houses to it. The “Borgo Terra” Museum
is placed on the first floor of Palace.
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Among all the peoples
which lived in this part of the peninsula, the Messapi native
of Illiria were those who left the most evident traces of
their epic time.
The Greeks, who colonised the peninsula salentina from the
IV century B.C. on, gave to this people the name of “Messapi”
which literally means “the people between the two
seas”.
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In the 4th century B.C.,
Messapi built a wall of 3900 metres long all around
their urban centre, to defend it. Later on, that centre
was completely destroyed by Romans at some unspecified age.
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The archaeologist Jean-Luc
Lamboley of the Ecole Françoise de Rome in different
excavation campaigns between 1986-92 he has uncovered three
walls in all, the first town wall predates 300 century B.C.,
and that the second and third walls are later finding in
Muro Leccese the biggest and most important boundary walls
in pre-Roman Salento.
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In Muro Leccese , there
are also very important Byzantine witnesses as for example
Santa Marina's Church which was built between
IX and XI century, keeps in its interior some frescoes representing
the life of S. Nicholas of Myra. Such narrative scenes are
the oldest in all Mediterranean area. The walls were built
in part with great blocks from the Messapian walls.
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Church and Monastery of S. Domenico
are a peculiar charm historical and architectonic: in 1562,
Muro’s Prince Giovan Battista I Protonobilissimo commissioned
a Dominican monastery on the site of a pre-existing monastery
consecrated to St. Zacharias. In 1583 this monastery was
provided with the present church commissioned by Lucrezia
Delli Monti, wife of Giovanni Francesco IV Proyonobilissimo.
The church, which adjoins the monastery, is in the form
of a Latin cross with one nave and nine altars.
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Annunziata Church was built between
1681 and 1693 over a small pre-existing building. The church
has seven other altars in addition to the high altar that
belonged to a church annexed to the Dominican monastery.
On the side-altars and on the inside walls are situated
some imposing paintings. The Annunziata church is also known
as the "picture-gallery" of Salento.
The beauty of Muro continues in the more recent constructions:
The Town's park unique for it's type together with the "Crocefisso"
park.
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The sights
of a village
- Messapian City Walls (4th century B.C.)
- Menhir
- Church and Monastery of S. Domenico (1561-1583)
- Park and church of the Crocefisso di Brongo
(1573-1613)
- Church Annunziata (1681-1693)
- Church Immaculate (1778-1785)
- Church of S. Marina (IX-X century)
- S. Maria di Miggiano Chapel (sec. XVI)
- SS. Cosimo and Damiano chapel (1872)
- Prince Palace
- Hypogean oil mill of Protonobilissimo
- Four Evangelists’ column (1608)
- Crocepinta column (1668)
- The “Borgo Terra” Museum
- Negri family Palace (17th century)
- Ducal Palace of the Basurto family (17th century)
- Fiore family palace, chapel and Hypogean oil mill (18th
century)
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