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la città di Ostuni |
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The commune of Ostuni (about 33.000
inhabitants) rises on the last
offshoots of the southern Murgia. Its
old town, goddess The Land, is
unmistakable l’blinding color of its
inhabited, strictly of white. The
houses painted of lime and the
peculiar topography make deserve you
appealed some world of the stories,
like White Town, Queen of the Olives,
Town Crib, TWO ancient unit - likely
support of of a citizen of the ancient
people of the messapi - in fact is
climbed on the flanks split of a necks
and presents a plant to shape of
ellipse, clear expressed from the city
wall strengthened from the. They
remain of it eight of the fifteen
natives, like too good parts of the
bulwarks that closed the medieval
town. Ostuni is a fascinating muddle
of narrow and tortuous road workers, a
to succeed itself of short, small
squares and alleys that a time
did head to five |
doors
that opened
themselves in the
city wall, |
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equipped of towers with openings in the projected,
across that the defenders threw on the attackers
stones, fire or boiling oil. The sole true road that
reaches the summit of the "cone" and that divides the
historical center in two parts is via Cathedral, while
all the other that intersect are it blind alleys or
tight and steep staircases. Here they residences to
shape of cube find themselves, often dug in the rock,
united from arcs and small arcs that act as you and
from support; like too palaces that, for the coats of
arms of the noble families, the portals and will vary
it some architectural lines, with golden blot of ochre
shade blinding it flash of the white maze, On The
summit of the necks, finally, it is raised the
Cathedral, wonderfulVenetians, that dominates the
Plain of the age-old olives until the sea.
Crossroads of peoples:
Inhabited since the prehistory, the territory of
Ostuni is occupied around 1000 to. C. from Japigi and
Messapi (ancient peoples of the Apulia). The town is
destroyed from Annibale in the second war punica,
rebuilded from the Greek farmers and, in the
successive centuries, occupied from Ostrogoti and
Longobardi, Saracen and Dark, Svevi and Normen, In
1507 comes annexed to the princess of Barium Isabella
of aragona, During almost two Spanish centuries of
dominion the people of Ostuni tried more times of
itself, until in 1799 proclaim the free and republican
town. TWO congress of Vienna marks the return of the
Bourbons, but also the flowering of sections of the
Carboneria (secret association Italian) and then of
the Young Italy. 26 August 1860, to few day from the
departure of Garibaldi from Messina, Ostuni - first
town of the Apulia - beats down the coats of arms
borbonici and does to wave the flag.
The ancient borgo:
It is the unmistakable jewlery that gives to Ostuni
its picturesque identity city planning. It is defined
from the inhabitants of Ostuni "the Land". Painted
alone of white, it rises on the highest necks of the
urban territory. Here it is all a to multiply itself
of plans, of ups and downs, of alleys and staircase,
of entangled road workers that cross arcs and small
squares. On its summit
they cut out the monumental Cathedral and the Bishop's
Palace.
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