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The Menhirs, the Dolmens, the Specchies |
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| The Salento is an earth rich in finds neanderthaliani. In this solar earth that he lives of culture and traditions, sea caves and earthlings, archaeology of the Messapis, specchie neolitiche, dolmen and menhir, are testimony of an ancient history engraved in the territory.
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| THE MENHIRS |
The term "menhir"
it originates from the Breton
dialect and it means "long
stone". monolithic parallelepipedis
are long hammered in the rock,
for this they call "pietrefitte" and they can be found isolated
or gathered in alignments so that
to form some complexes. The use
and their destination it is not
clear but it is held they
were of the points of various
reference, that signalled confinements
or that they were tools of measurement
of the time. The menhirs are tied
to the cult of the sun and in
general to the phallic cults.
The menhirs salentini, around
80 they measure in average 4 meters
and they are similar to the menhirs
of the Corvaglia, of England and
of the Balearic ones. Characteristic
to almost all it is that the widest
faces are directed by south north.
The tallest menhir in Italy is
St. Totano to Martano of meters
5,20.
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| THE DOLMEN |
Close to the specchies,
they are present also the dolmens,
built for lasting in the time,
they are the most ancient architectures
in Europe: the so-called ones "stones without name",
they represent in fact of the
traces of a distant past and forgotten.
The term "dolmen" it
derives from the fusion of two
Breton words: it deals with a
monument megalitico generally
constituted by a slab of stone
vertically supported horizontally
on stones infitte in the ground,
so that to form an environment,
for the mhours to sepulchral use.
Very often covered by a tumult.
Notable presences Sundays are
present to Sweaters, Melendugno
and Minervino.
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| THE SPECCHIE |
Tumults of earth and stones, used by the sapiens-hunter as places of diurnal and night time sighting, in the Salento
they still preserve twenty-six. To Taurisano, in the south of the Salento, there is Silvia the greatest specchia of the world.
Botanical garden: Driven visit in a botanical garden been born in the stone with over 3000 kinds of collect fat plants and listed.
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