Salty Sea, Old Stones and Martyrs on Italy’s Heel in Otranto
Sunday, October 26th, 2008TIME runs at a different pace in Otranto, where the brutal June heat shuts the town down for the entire afternoon, and memories cycle in centuries rather than hours. Perched in the Apulia region, on the southeastern point of Italy’s heel, Otranto is surrounded by a raw, arid landscape more redolent of Greece or Cyprus than of the rolling hills and vineyards of Northern Italy. The Adriatic, a peerless turquoise with a white sand bottom, feels thickly salted compared with the more gentle Mediterranean. (more…)