Old suburb of Conversano
just lay in the tomb sealed with slabs. It was perhaps a dignitary or a priest, who had been granted the privilege of being placed in a single grave in the chapel with an apse, but in obvious poverty, because archaeologists have not found next to the skeleton of finding any rite or badges, or sacred objects.
E 'lord of Castiglione, the rural village of the Middle Ages settled on a hill five miles from Rising Conversano. And knowing that is now a most worthy rediscovery.
In 1998 he reorganized the walls that were surrounded by ancient times the village, set in medieval documents precisely enclosure (enclosed space). It was investigated the stately square tower, around which there has emerged a strong counterscarp of living stones.
was recovered to a side door of a small fortress which still shows the holes for the hinges of the doors. It was restored imposing walls that rise up to five meters high and reveals here and there traces of megalithic base, built with technical peuceta. It was further
patrolled the strip of territory adjacent to the inner walls, where the remains of medieval structures alternate proto evidence of huts.
Now, a few years ago, thanks to funding Pop (aimed at recovery and archaeological sites for tourism), has re-emerged entirely dedicated to the Annunciation of the village church, whose apse was highlighted by previous excavations of 1982 .
Member of the temple, a chapel has resurfaced, with an apse and also accompanied by an altar on its axis extends above the tomb of the deceased, whose deposition in a single place of worship shows a clear preference, compared with the various was that, in the same compartment, but also in the transept and the nave of the church, the ancient inhabitants of Castiglione had dug in the rock and used raw as ossuaries.
Many skeletons are identified, placed one over the other (even in a lay 20 dead). Along with objects is: fragments of oil lamps, pottery glazed pottery, bronze buckles and studs. The church age
complaint Anjou (1300-1400). And the adjacent chapel would also be back.
except that a dime, re-emerged on the sepulchral slabs of the pavement, and better identify trade era of the settlement. It could be a money Swabian, in whose verse is clear a cross with stars incorporated, and the reference Sicily (and all that you can not read).
The chapel must have suffered a different use in time. At first it was a baptistery, when the village took on some significance and it could boast the presence of a priest.
His baptismal font was transferred after the abandonment of the village in the Cathedral of Conversano and disappeared after the fire of 1911. It was later turned into a funeral chapel.
Another building is emerging while next to the entrance tower and it was connected, maybe with the function of shelter for the guards. Because the entire estate of Castiglione, in the nature of rural, natural vocation to become strategic bulwark connected to the ancient Norba (ie Conversano): the large step dominates the hilly landscape and allows easy sighting on the territory surrounding area, which reaches even to the sea.
The wind is now owner of the abandoned village, which was once a fervent industrious peasant. Flagella and fragno the many oak trees that have taken root among the ruined houses and tanks; scatters the acorns in the rubble of the village which was no doubt inhabited from the Bronze Age and enjoyed a flourishing country several times (but not in Roman times : I miss tracks for now). The Mediterranean vegetation
contends archeology spaces and suggests the design of an easy-archaeological park environment.
A park that involves the entire fortified town (13,000 square meters.) And also close specchie: as received and returned to the Scattone in the past the tombs of former rulers Peucetians the sixth century BC, warriors who wanted to spend the afterlife decked in armor ritual, complete with spears, armor and helmet Corinthian, and Geometric vessels equipped with the offerings to the gods infernal.
But that also includes the lake valley lying at the foot of the hill, the village water supply for centuries.
Thanks to an ever more extensive documentation of material finds, Castiglione is telling his story.
But still has much to reveal about the ancient inhabitants of Peucetia; especially has much to tell about the life of the village in the Middle Ages, which emerges from the feeble documentary evidence from the eighth century onwards: certainly not a life at court, but the simple and everyday a village in rural economy, equipped with a squad of guards, who scan the horizon until the end of the fifteenth century.
Castiglione was then that suffered the sudden and final abandonment, whose causes are mysterious (to the destruction caused by a band of Turkish soldiers to the assault or the Venetian?). Also this
excavations succeed sooner or later to clarify. The latest news say that the village was still inhabited to 1494. Then silence.
Maybe did not make sense to scan the Adriatic for a coincidence of history in this part of the century XV someone had opened up new horizons and a new world oceans, America.
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