Otranto holiday home rental, Uggiano la Chiesa with walking, beach/lake nearby, log fire, balcony/terrace, air con, rural retreat, TV

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Palazzo Umberto I (house)

Home description

Apartment style '800, in centre to Uggiano la Chiesa, kitchen, stay, bedroom, room with single bed, sofa bed, garden, conditioned air.

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The Puglia/Molise region

Puglia, a sprawling, fertile region that forms the heel of the Italian boot, is a tranquil commingling of hills and valleys, densely wooded forests, craggy coastline, and stretches of sandy beach.
Lecce, one of Puglia's most important cities, has been dubbed the "Florence of the South" and is well-known for its Baroque architecture. The dreamlike promontory of Puglia's Gargano Peninsula offers unbeatable vistas of the sea, and the stunning white town of Ostuni, the serene countryside of the Val d'Itria, and Alberobello, home to thousands of unusual stone houses with conical roofs, dazzle the eye with their stark, surreal beauty. And all along the coast, dozens of tiny villages and small towns sit perched over the deep blue water like so many white jewels glimmering in the distance.

Otranto / Uggiano la Chiesa area

The City of Otranto (Apulia) - Italy

Also known as The Gateway to the East, Otranto is a tourist town in Apulia, in the Province of Lecce, situated on the easternmost point of the Salento Peninsula, the ‘heel’ of Italy, which connects the Adriatic and Ionian Seas in the heart of the Mediterranean.
Otranto is a town of art and the neighbouring town is Lecce known as the Florence of the south'.





A Brief History


Otranto was a Greek colony which, in 281 BC, became subject to Roman rule; the Roman troops left from its port to venture East as described by numerous Latin writers. When the Roman Empire was divided, Otranto became a base for the officials of Constantinople, and the town became ever more important, to the point where, in the 4th century, Japigia, Messapia, Salento, and Calabria were collectively given the name Terra d’Otranto (Land of Otranto).
Otranto was a stronghold of Catholic civilization, resisting Turkish invasion on many occasions.
In 1480 the Turks besieged the city, and after 80 days of bloodshed the Turkish expedition commander Achmet Pascià gathered 800 men and made them choose between embracing the Muslin faith or decapitation; the 800 men chose death. Their relics are contained in 7 great cabinets, in the apse of Otranto Cathedral, where the great rock used by the invaders for the decapitation is also kept. In 1481, Otranto was liberated by Ferdinand of Aragon who then fortified it. The whole system of defence was altered by Napoleon’s troops in the early 19th century.






To Visit
Consecrated in 1088, the CATHEDRAL has a Romanesque-Gothic front with a Renaissance rosette and a Baroque portal. In it, there is the beautiful mosaic floor created in 1163-1165 with an incomparable artistic-historic value.


The S.PIETRO-BYZANTINE CHURCH (X-XII century) is in the heart of the old town. It is one of the few remaining monuments of its kind left in Italy. Its Byzantine frescoes and its Greek-cross plane have great historic value. Built on the day after the liberation of Otranto in 1481, the ARAGONESE CASTLE rises above the former Norman, Byzantine and Greek fortifications; with its pentagonal plane, it preserves the nearly intact defensive system, made of towers, moats and walls.


ST.FRANCESCO’s CHURCH ON THE MINERVA’s HILL (XVII century) is the centre that radiates the religious and civil history of Otranto. This church was built thanks to the pity of some believers and it was consecrated to the Martyrs of Otranto, as a memorial to their faith, and to those who met their deaths in 1480.


ST.GIOVANNI’s CAVES (XII century) are a group of “caves” later utilized even as a hypogeous oil-mill.


THE HYPOGEUM OF TORREPINTA with its hypogeous structure presents a 33 metre mooring post.


THE ANCIENT SUBURB Notwithstanding the building expansion, the historical centre is still intact. The paved quick-stone roads are narrow and wind among the white houses. Walking through the suburb, especially in the days when Mistral insinuates itself among the alleys, it is possible to hear the history of Otranto, with its invasions, resistances and … love for this town.


THE COAST AND THE SEA The coast is long and varied and, if leaving from the North white beaches, one can arrive at the South coasts which are high and rocky; the scenery is picturesque and suggestive thanks to promontories. The sea, turquoise and uncontaminated, assumes a more intense tonality towards the South. Towards Northern coast, FRASSANITO presents thin cobbled paving hidden by a pine-wood, which in turn arrives at the large and marvellous ALIMINI beach.


Going on, you arrive at TURK’S BAY, a series of little mortise that hide beaches which in the past functioned as landing-escape points.


WATER-MILL is a series of little caves and one with the tumbled vault.


MONACA CAVE is a little cave which, in days gone by, contained a nun-shaped stalagmite.


THE WHITE LIGHTHOUSE signifies the entrance to the port and, behind it, there is the SNAKE TOWER which guards a steep coast that goes down to the great ORTE BAY (from Ortor, where the sun rises).


Here the CAPE OF OTRANTO rises with its lighthouse and, going on towards the South, we arrive at PORTO BADISCO where, according to the great poet Virgil, Enea landed.







WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT OTRANTO


In 2002, 2003 and in 2004, Otranto was awarded the first prize among the most beautiful and clean beaches of Italy, thanks to the recognition of the 5 SAILS of Legambiente.

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Facilities

Rental rates

Period	From	To	Weekly	Nightly rate		Minimum  stay
				Weekday	Weekend
January-June	27 Feb 08	1 Jul 08	350£  278	0-	0-	Flexible
July	1 Jul 08	1 Aug 08	500£  397	0-	0-	Flexible
August	1 Aug 08	1 Sep 08	800£  635	0-	0-	Flexible
September - December	1 Sep 08	1 Jan 09	350£  278	0-	0-	Flexible

NB: Prices may be subject to change at the owner's discretion.

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Name:	Omar Landriscina
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