Otranto is a town in the province of Lecce in Puglia, located in the most extreme of the Salento peninsula and is the most eastern town in Italy. Initially Greek-Messapian and Roman, then Byzantine and later Aragonese, it develops around the imposing castle and the Norman cathedral. Archiepiscopal seat and important tourist center, it gave its name to the Otranto Canal, which separates Italy from Albania, and to the Terra d’Otranto, ancient circumscription of the Kingdom of Naples. In 2010 the ancient village was recognized as a UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site as Messenger of Peace.
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