Otranto
Lecce – Puglia
Otranto (Utràntu in the local dialect, Derentò in Salento Greek, in classical Greek, Hydruntum in Latin) is an Italian town of 5,547 inhabitants in the province of Lecce in Puglia.
Located on the Adriatic coast of the Salento peninsula, it is the easternmost municipality in Italy: the homonymous cape, also called Punta Palascìa, south of the inhabited center, is the easternmost geographical point of the Italian peninsula.
At first a Messapian and Roman center, then Byzantine and later Aragonese, it develops around the imposing castle and the Norman cathedral. Archiepiscopal seat and important tourist center, it gave its name to the Canale d’Otranto, which separates Italy from Albania, and to the Terra d’Otranto, an ancient district of the Kingdom of Naples.
In 2010 the ancient village was declared by UNESCO as a heritage witness of a culture of peace . It is part of the club The most beautiful villages in Italy
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