• Home
  • A corner of Greece in Puglia: the "Grecìa Salentina"

A corner of Greece in Puglia: the "Grecìa Salentina"

A charming and unknown corner in Salento, in Puglia, small towns keep their ancient Byzantine identity. These towns are part of what is known as Grecia Salentina.

A corner of Greece in Puglia: the "Grecìa Salentina"

It's already known that Southern Italy was a time an ancient Greeks colony, the so-called Magna Grecia. But maybe not everybody knows that in the heart of Salento, in Puglia, there is a community called "Grecìa Salentina", so called in this way because its inhabitants still retains Hellenic customs and customs, in particular the language, inherited in particular in the Byzantine era.

 

Source: https://www.visititaly.eu

READ MORE
PREVIOUS POST
Areas
Categories
We the Italians # 193