Cammino del Salento Via del Mare: Points of interest

Cultural and natural places linked to this walk in the Appy catalogue. Check each location and description to plan your visit.

• Monastero degli Olivetani

  Monastery in Romanesque style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Villa Sticchi

  Palace in Moorish Revival style, in Santa Cesarea Terme, Italy.

• Tower of San Foca

  A sixteenth century coastal watchtower, once called Torre di Capo Sapone, built to spot Ottoman raiders along the Salento coast.

• Torre dell'Omomorto

  Tower in Renaissance style, in Castrignano del Capo, Italy.

• Monastero dei Carmelitani

  A Baroque convent of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, grouped around a square cloister of round arches with a loggia above.

• Monastero dei Teatini

  Monastery of the Theatines. Monastery in baroque style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Lecce

  Historic village, in province of Lecce, Italy, at 49 m elevation, covering 241.0 km².

• Castle of Charles V

  A fortress ordered in 1539 by Emperor Charles V to replace a medieval stronghold, designed by Gian Giacomo dell'Acaya with the outer works finished by 1549.

• Palazzo dei Celestini

  Palace in baroque style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Museum Vito Mele

  21st-century museum, in Castrignano del Capo, Italy.

• Torre di Belloluogo

  Tower in Renaissance style, in Lecce, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Torre Nasparo

  Tower in Renaissance style, in Tiggiano, Italy.

• Torre Palane

  Tower in Renaissance style, in Marina Serra, Italy.

• Santa Maria della Porta

  19th-century church in Neoclassicism style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Chiesa della Nova

  18th-century church in Rococo style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Church of Saint John of God

  18th-century church in barocco leccese style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Sant’Irene

  16th-century church in baroque style, designed by Francesco Grimaldi, in Lecce, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Torre del Parco

  15th-century tower in Renaissance style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Santa Maria della Provvidenza

  18th-century church in baroque style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Sant'Angelo

  17th-century church in baroque Lecce style, in Lecce, Italy.

• San Giovanni Evangelista

  18th-century church in Romanesque style, dedicated to John the Evangelist, in Lecce, Italy.

• Chiesa del Gesù (Lecce)

  Church in baroque style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli

  Church in Renaissance style, in Lecce, Italy.

• Lecce

  The city of Lecce, provincial capital located in the North Salento area, at the center of a large karst depression called Valle della Cupa, is characterized by a radial urban layout that extends…

• Torre, difensiva, Torre Omomorto

  Located in the municipality of Castrignano del Capo, in the district of Santa Maria di Leuca, the tower rises about 50 meters from the sea at an altitude of about 11 meters.

• Tiggiano

  It is set on the road that connects Tricase to Santa Maria di Leuca, which crosses the inhabited area from north to south. Its internal connections are pedestrian and vehicular.

• Torre Roca Vecchia

  Tower, in Melendugno, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Madonna dell'Altomare

  18th-century church in baroque style, dedicated to Mary, in Otranto, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Chiesa di Sant'Antonio

  Church, in Otranto, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Castello di Otranto

  Castle, in Otranto, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Torre Santa Cesarea

  Tower in Renaissance style, in Santa Cesarea Terme, Italy.

• Torre Specchia di Guardia

  Tower in Renaissance style, in Santa Cesarea Terme, Italy.

• Torre del Serpe

  Tower in Renaissance style, in Otranto, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Torre dell'Orte

  16th-century tower in Renaissance style, in Otranto, Italy.

• San Pietro

  Church in Byzantine style, dedicated to Saint Peter, in Otranto, Italy.

• Torre Miggiano

  Tower, in Santa Cesarea Terme, Italy, designated as Italian national heritage.

• Otranto

  In the course of the 16th century, the city recorded a slight demographic recovery associated with an urban and building restructuring, of which the Cathedral of Santa Maria Annunziata with the…

• Fortified settlement, Medieval citadel of Roca Vecchia

  The citadel had the characteristics of a layout with clear references to the French bastides, a fortified military model developed within a perfectly regular urban chessboard.

• Multilayered site, Archaeological area of Rocavecchia

  Since 1987, extensive research promoted annually by the University of Salento has allowed for a precise definition of the complex sequence of phases of occupation, destruction, and planimetric…

• Fortification structure, defensive wall, Defensive enclosure

  The first phase of construction of the walls, dating back to a final moment of the Protoappenninico (Phase 1, between the 17th and 16th centuries BC), has been recognized both along the outer front…

• Cave, Grotta Poesia

  The Grotta Poesia Grande and Grotta Poesia Piccola caves form a karst complex that extends underground near a freshwater spring.

• Santa Cesarea Terme

  The town is traversed by a main road built in the 19th century.

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