> From the LAKES OF ALIMINI to OTRANTO, an ancient Salento town of messapica origin. Visit to the old town within the town walls with towers, to the seventeenth century cathedral, which still retains a gothic rose window dating back to 1400 and a baroque portal. Visit to the church of S. Pietro built between the 10th and 11th century and to the Castle built by Ferdinando of Aragon


>Continue to the ZINZULUSA CAVE, which is reached by means of an open passageway in the cliffs. The cave is scientifically important because it houses warm interglacial fauna and steppe and very rare hypogeus fauna. The Zinzula cave gets its name from the stalactites, which look like Zinzuli (rags). Lunch at a typical restaurant (La Zinzulusa)

> In the afternoon a visit to LEUCA located between Punta Meliso and Punta Ristola: it was an ancient messapica origin town dividing the waters of the Adriatic Sea from those of the Ionian Sea. Visit to the Sanctuary of Santa Maria, probably built on an ancient temple dedicated to the goddess Minerva.

>Continue to Gallipoli, fortified and enclosed within high walls, which protected it for centuries. In the centre of the old town there is the Cathedral dating back to 1600 and built by great masters, the Angevin castle with its cylindrical and square-based towers.

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