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SAN VITO DEI NORMANNI

Driving for 7 more kilometres from Carovigno, we get to San Vito dei Normanni, one of the most important historical and archaeological sites of the region. In the countryside around San Vito dei Normanni, there are a number of caves in which ancient rupestrian populations coming from the East settled in the late Middle-Ages to flee from the Saracens. Here, great store is set by some crypts, mainly dug in the rock, where once probably various monastic communities with Greek origins used to live. They are not in very good conditions now, but they still represent one of the most important regional evidence of ancient human settlements. Even the feudal castle, built by the Orsini family in the XIV century, has remarkable significance from a historical and artistic point of view.