Acquarica Del Capo
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Acquarica del Capo was a town and ''
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'' in the
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,
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, south-eastern
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. In 2019 it was merged with the adjacent Presicce to form Presicce-Acquarica. It is located in
Salento Salento (; Salentino dialect, Salentino: ''Salentu''; Griko language, Salento Griko: ) is a Cultural area, cultural, List of historical states of Italy, historical, and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apuli ...
, 10 km from the Ionian Sea and 60 km from Lecce. Its origins are medieval and it grew around a Norman fortification. Later it was transformed into a castle town by the Aragonese.


Main sights

*Medieval castle. It was probably a Norman fortification around which the village developed in the Middle Ages and was later transformed in a Castle in the 14th century by Giovanni Antonio Orsini Del Balzo, Prince of Taranto. Only a round tower remains from the original four. In the court can be seen the so-called "Pila di Pompignano" saved from destruction in 1982 by the local writer Carlo Stasi who wrote its legend."La Pila di Pompignano", pp. 129-164, in Carlo Stasi, ''Leucàsia e Le Due Sorelle (Storie e leggende del Salento)'', Mancarella Ed., Cavallino, 2008, 2012, *Church of ''San Carlo Borromeo'' *Church of ''San Giovanni Battista'' *Church ''Madonna dei Panetti'', at Celsorizzo, one of the most ancient constructions in the lower
Salento Salento (; Salentino dialect, Salentino: ''Salentu''; Griko language, Salento Griko: ) is a Cultural area, cultural, List of historical states of Italy, historical, and geographic region at the southern end of the administrative region of Apuli ...
. *Fortified ''masseria'' of Celsorizzo. A huge Norman Tower with Byzantine frescoes in the Chapel at its base. *Church of ''Madonna di Pompignano''


References


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