A stone's throw from Giuggianello, among splendid centuries-old olive trees, with their grotesque anthropomorphic knots, and immersed in the still vivid echo of the terrible deeds of the Epimelide nymphs, narrated by Nicander of Colophon in the 2nd century BC, who transformed some young Messapian shepherds into wild olive trees, here survive the ruins of a circular fortified structure, built between the second half of the 4th and the first decades of the 3rd century BC. A true Messapian tower.
The tower, located 115 meters above sea level and reported by the historian Pasquale Maggiulli already at the beginning of the 20th century, was then forgotten and only recently returned to public interest after a small revealing fire. Today it is still hidden from most people's eyes among the thick vegetation of the Madonna della Serra area, near the seventeenth-century church of the same name, on a hill from which you can see the two seas that bathe the Salento.
Frequented by man since ancient times, as evidenced by fragments of Bronze Age clay and ceramics found on the surface, this structure seems to emanate an arcane energy and a magnetic fascination.
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