Ceglie Messapica

but you never answer the phone that you have a deal, is there the municipality? we pay taxes but nobody works what a shame !!!!

A new and welcoming structure and the presence of numerous employees for which we often find the answer to our needs in reasonable times.

You can feel the history; one of the most ancient places in Puglia, fantastic

Good day to Mr. Mayor, this year I noticed many beautiful innovative things in the municipality of Ceglie, but I also noticed a bit of dirt that the tourist sees in the streets of Ceglie especially where the boys play basket ball near the San Lorenzo oven. please do something about it thank you good job

Ceglie Messapica, one of the oldest towns in Puglia, marks the hilly border of the Murge plateau to the south-east, opening its natural terrace towards Salento and the surrounding Brindisi plain. At 300 meters above sea level, Ceglie Messapica has just over 21,000 inhabitants, described as stubborn but very hospitable by nineteenth-century travelers who nevertheless appreciated the nature and the not always convenient frankness. The dialect is of the Japigio stock, hard, trunk, chanted, with open and elongated vowels; nothing in common with the rhythmic, honeyed and musical Lecce, of certain Hellenic origin. Probably the genesis of the Cegliese phoneme, albeit with the exchanges of the centuries, is to be found in the nearest Balkan regions ("A-cci simin 'akkogghj'", Chi sowing reaping). The history of Ceglie Messapica dates back to at least 15 centuries before the coming of Christ, the origin is certainly pre-Hellenic but traces and new finds, being studied in this period, could backdate the founding of the city to four thousand years ago. Currently, the birth certificate is disputed between the Pelasgians and the Cretans, who in any case made ancient Kailìa an important military and commercial center of the Messapi, the people who lived between the Adriatic and the Ionian. Subsequently, the history of Ceglie absorbs the Latin and Roman dominion, the decline of the August Empire and the advent of the Municipalities. After a Middle Ages that profoundly marked the culture and behavior of the South, the Renaissance is also manifested here with renewed political systems that protect the nobility of the time and encourage art and cultural exchanges: between the 16th and 18th centuries complete the Ducal Castle, the Collegiate Church, the beautiful Baroque Church of San Domenico with the adjoining convent, now the Town Hall. Since the nineteenth century Ceglie has progressively extended the urban boundaries and precisely the excavations for the foundations of the new houses have made it possible to see the light of priceless archaeological assets that are preserved in the museum of Taranto, in that of Berlin and in the private collections of Italian and foreign scholars. . Unfortunately, a lot of material, the only testimony of the past, has been lost or dispersed. Today the city is looking for a new social and economic identity. The post-industrial sector, with the employment impoverishment of the chemical pole of Brindisi and the iron and steel industry of Taranto, is imposing new production models: despite great difficulties, typical of the South, the tertiary sector slowly makes its way, craftsmanship aims at aggregative forms which could soon turn into a small industry, textile workshops flourish while agriculture, especially olive oil, remains one of the main sources of income, sometimes supplementary. Tourism is a phenomenon awaiting development, fueled above all by individual initiative: some farms and trulli of the Cegliese countryside have been adapted. and included in the agritourism circuit, exerting a strong appeal in Germany, England and the regions of Northern Italy. The culinary art of the city, on the other hand, is flourishing, full of restaurants known and appreciated even outside the Apulian borders: and deservedly the ancient capital of the Messapi has for some years become the capital of gastronomy of the "people who lived between the two seas".

I went today, April 11, 2022, to accompany a Ukrainian woman, who does not speak Italian, to social services, I stayed 10 minutes on the blue lines, and I was fined 42 euros for no parking. Normally in winter in these countries you pay only during the tourist season. These got their heads up. Go spend your money elsewhere, friend's advice ?