Museo della civiltà di Roca

Editorial Staff 15 July 2022

Inside the Acaya Castle, there is a museum that collects and preserves the precious history of Roca Vecchia, with artefacts dating back to the 15th-11th century BC.

A true archaeological mine from the Bronze Age.

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The site of Roca Vecchia was besieged and burned, like the mythical Troy it was destroyed and rebuilt several times. It is unknown who the founding peoples were and even if these fortifications served to defend a city or, as seems more likely, an important place of worship.

The name of the Messapian city is thought to have been Thuria Sallentina.

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The artefacts preserved in the Acaya museum are a rare document of the art and culture of one of the most flourishing populations of the Mediterranean.

The site of Roca was later abandoned (no traces of the Roman period have been found), while it was frequented in the early Middle Ages by anchorites, mostly from the Eastern Roman Empire, who over time formed a community, living in a series of caves dug into the limestone. At the beginning of the 14th century, Gualtieri di Brienne, Count of Lecce, rebuilt Roca making it a fortified city,

but in 1480 its population was put to flight by Turkish raids.

In that year, in fact, the sultan Mehmet II, after having conquered Constantinople (1453) and subdued the entire Balkan Peninsula, sent an expedition that landed on the eastern coast of Salento. Roca Vecchia was sacked and used by the Turks as an operational base to launch attacks on the city of Otranto and other Salento centers.

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Museo della civiltà di Roca

A true archaeological mine from the Bronze Age.

The name of the Messapian city is thought to have been Thuria Sallentina.

The artefacts preserved in the Acaya museum are a rare document of the art and culture of one of the most flourishing populations of the Mediterranean.

but in 1480 its population was put to flight by Turkish raids.

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Museo della civiltà di Roca

A true archaeological mine from the Bronze Age.

The name of the Messapian city is thought to have been Thuria Sallentina.

The artefacts preserved in the Acaya museum are a rare document of the art and culture of one of the most flourishing populations of the Mediterranean.

but in 1480 its population was put to flight by Turkish raids.

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