Cavallino (Apulia)

Cavallino
Country	Italy
region	Apulia
province	Lecce  (LE)
Coordinates	40 ° 19 ′  N , 18 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 40 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  N , 18 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E
height	38  m slm
surface	22.34 km²
Residents	12,765 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	571 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	73020
prefix	0832
ISTAT number	075020
Popular name	Cavallinesi
Patron saint	Dominic (August 4th)
Website	Cavallino

Cavallino is a south-eastern Italian municipality ( comune ) with 12,765 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the province of Lecce in Apulia . The municipality is located about 6 kilometers southeast of Lecce in Salento .

Prehistory and History

The menhir of Ussano - about 5 km south of the town center comes from the Bronze Age

Cavallino Ducal Palace

The remains of the settlement range from the Bronze Age to the 3rd century BC. After that the place was apparently abandoned. In addition to finds of stone tools, menhirs such as the 2.6 m high menhir from Ussano date from the early period . The Bronze Age, rather small groups of huts were located in the Località Pere and north of it. The circular hut floors, stone arrowheads, post holes and shards of impasto vessels, a hand-made, thick-walled brown pottery, have been preserved. A large oval one-room hut from the 8th century BC was built in Pelli. . Of 6 x 11 m uncovered chr which a recessed into the ground inside Pithos for stockpiling a grindstone having and a hearth. In the 6th century BC An area of ​​69 hectares was surrounded by a 3.1 km long and 4.0 m wide city wall with a 4.0 m wide ditch in front, which is interrupted at the level of the gate. The area around Cavallino was now an important Messapier center . The ancient city of these original Salento residents was believed to have been founded in 470 BC. Expelled by the Greeks. From the 13th century AD, the transfers of the Cavallino fiefdom are documented. The year 1806 not only ended feudalism in southern Italy. Since this year Cavallino is an independent municipality.

traffic

Strada Statale 16 Adriatica runs through the municipality from Lecce towards Maglie . The nearest train station is in Lecce or in San Cesario di Lecce .

literature

• Felice G. Lo Porto:  CAVALLINO Apulia, Italy . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

Web links

Commons : Cavallino  - collection of images, videos and audio files