Galatina

Galatina lies in a pleasant and fertile valley, thirteen miles far from the Adriatic and Ionian Sea. A Lombard captain called Viridomaro is told to have founded the town… Galatina is one of the most beautiful towns of the province and the centre of the home trade. (Adapted in English from Giuseppe Ceva Grimaldi, Itinerario da Napoli a Lecce).

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The Greek origins of this town are testified by its name and blazon. Its history has been documented since the 14^th century, when it was ruled by the Angevins and Carlo d’Angiò (Charles of Anjou) who assigned the feud of San Pietro in Galatina to count Niccolò Orsini from Nola, husband of Maria Del Balzo [next...]