Brindisi "antico porto romano"

Brindisi

Brindisi important center of Salento in southern Italy, has historically played an important role in the commercial and cultural due to its favorable position to the East and to its port on the Adriatic Sea.

Its origins: an ancient city with a crossroads of cultures and people due to its geographical position and the importance of its port. In 267 BC Brindisi, as the entire Salento, was conquered by the Romans and became an important stopover for Greece and the East and became a municipality in 83 BC and Brindisi, in 240 BC, was granted citizenship roman.

Traditions and folklore: significant land of Brindisi is the cult of tarantism, that mixes pagan and Christian traditions. In the past it was believed that women who showed forms of hysteria, were contaminated by the tarantula bites. The only known remedy was to dance non-stop for days, so that the poison did not effetto.La pinches Brindisi, unlike that of Lecce, shows a therapeutic repertoire and musical detail.