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Telephone: +39 0833 596521
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Description
Tuglie has very ancient origins. This is confirmed by the four menhirs which are located in the open countryside:
menhir of Monte Prino: about two meters high;
menhir of Nove Croci: Camastra in the district ;
menhir of the Caruggio;
the menhir Scirocco.
After the Greek conolizzazione was sacked and destroyed by the Turks after the occupation of Otranto in 1480, and again in 1537, following the sacking of Castro, experienced a period of abandonment until, in the mid- sixteenth century, became a fief of Baron Filippo Guarini had a new demographic momentum, thanks to a anchea land reform in the area.
It later became the property of the Venturi, who held it, with the title of dukes, until the abolition of feudalism in 1806.
Monuments of interest
The Mother Church - SS. Annunziata: built in the eighteenth century by the Bishop of Nardò, Archbishop Sanfelice, flanked by a bell tower remained unfinished;
The Sanctuary of the Madonna del Grappa: built in memory of the fallen of the First World War, 1915-18;
The caves Grotte Passaturi or Case vecchie, constituted, according to some historical studies, the abode of the ancient people of Tulli.
Municipal Police Office
Tel: +39 0833 597644
E-mail: poliziamunicipale@comune.tuglie.le.it