escursione sulla costa

Torre dell'Orso

grotte marine -costa sud-

piccola baia -costa del sud-

insenature

Torre dell'Orso -spiaggia-

S.Andrea

S. Maria di Leuca

grotte di S.Andrea

insenatura S.Cesaria

grotta Zinzulusa -Castro-

la città vecchia -Otranto-

Torre dell'Orso

particolare muro -Otranto-

S.Andrea

alba sul mare

Otranto centro storico

Otranto di sera

reti

Otranto centro storico

chiesa Bizantina di S. Pietro

CATTEDRALE DI OTRANTO

grotta Zinzulusa -Castro-

porto Selvaggio

baia S. Isidoro

campagna a sud di Otranto

S. Cesarea Terme -villa Sticcchi-

S. Cesaria Terme

torre costiera del 500

masseria fortificata del 500

chiesa sotterranea periodo bizantino

ipogeo Torre Pinta

case bianche con mare

Monastero di Casole (Otranto): importanete centro culturale del 1100

Gallipoli

tramonto gallipolino

centro storico di Corigliano

arco Lucchetti -Corigliano-

particolare di una casa

castello di Corigliano

particolare del Castello -Corigliano-

balcone del Castello -Corigliano-

ogiva del Castello -Corigliano-

vicolo di Sternatia

frantoio ipogeo -Sternatia-

chiostro -Sternatia-

chiesa bizantina di S. Stefano -Soleto-

guglia degli Orsini -Soleto-

chiostro convento -Melpignano-

chiesa di S.Giorgio -Melpignano-

-piazza del mercato -Melpignano-

vecchio portone

porta Filia

dolmen

casa a corte

festa

convento del XVI sec. -Melignano-

pozzelle -Castrignano-

chiesa S.Caterina -Galatina-

interno S.Caterina -Galatina-

particola cupola S.Caterina

finestra del centro storico

campo di girasoli

tipica strada di campagna

masseria

"furni": antiche abitazioni contadine

Otranto, a "crossroad of  cultures," is a place where the student can meet the past cultures: the Arabs, the Greeks, the Messapians, the Spanish, the Normans, the Celts, and the Swabians.  Students can also find signs of primitive peoples (caves with primitive drawings, dolmen and menhir can be found all over the countryside).  Land of transit, all ancient people travelling between East and West left their mark.

Salento begins at Lecce and ends on the heel of Italy . It moved to east as if a Greek God, to enjoy himself, had thrown the boot towards him. "Land of Otranto" was called the Salento, land of Normans. The town that gave the name to this land was a small Mediterranean power leaned out on the East with its monasteries as San Nicola of Casole, one of the most cultured and sophisticated places in Europe during the XIII century. There precious manuscripts were copied, there people spoke Greek and Latin, there people landed from Paris as from Bisanzio. The monastery of Casole had from the XI to the XV century in the whole South of Italy a cultural role which anticipated the Humanistic movement of northern Italy. Here flourished an active center of studies that picked up the ancient Greek-Latin codes. For the first time in Europe, in the "scriptorium casolano" rose in 1160, the Students' House, the second rose in London in 1183. 

The School of Casole became the meeting-point of researchers of Eastern and Western Europe, who exchanged codes, experiences, and knowledge.

In the Salento man breathes a particular atmosphere haunted by indefinite presences. It is a land of dolmen and menhir, of prehistoric caves of extraordinary importance, archaeological sites, and places that seem like magic. It is celebrated by the most famous writers such as Virgilio (Enea landed at the Salento to found Rome) or Horace Walpole, the English writer of 1700 who wrote the novel "The Castle of Otranto"; land which is subject of historical and anthropological studies from foreign researchers of international fame.

The chief town of the province is Lecce, "the Florence of Southern Italy". It is a town where losing oneself is, more than an accident on the way. It is a duty of the intellect. Lecce, home of the Baroque, is more than an architectural style, a way to relive past. Time in Lecce passes through its tortuous streets, through places that you would never recognize, because the streets change perspective continuously. Lastly, the Salento, finis terrae, is a winding land that lives through the nuances of the imagination.

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SPECIAL COURSES

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Certification of Italian as a Foreign Language (CILS)

Mediterranean cooking course

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