MESAGNE
Mesagne is located in Salento, in the province of Brindisi (in the South of Italy) and it is small. It has got 26.465 inhabitants.
The origins of Mesagne date back over 2000 years ago; it is called Messapic City because the Messapi, people from Greek origins, founded it.
It is quite easy to get to Mesagne because it is well connected to the other towns.
TRANPORTS
Mesagne has got the railway station,the bus station and the closest airport is in Brindisi,which is just 8'far from Mesagne.
RAILWAY STATION
BUS STATION
AIRPORT
HOTELS
Mesagne has got 3 big hotels and lots of bed & breakfast hotels.
HOTELS
RESTAURANTS
The restaurants offer excellent menus of local and international dishes.
LOCAL RESTAURANTSHOPS
Shopping is not a problem because Mesagne is rich in many types of shops and shopping centers
SHOPPING CENTRE SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
There are lots of schools in Mesagne: lots of nursery schools, 4 primary schools, one middle school and two high schools. The nearest universities are in Taranto and in Lecce, two cities which are few km far from Mesagne.
MIDDLE SCHOOL "Materdona" 
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TEAM 4 Vicientino Valentina
CHURCH OF ST. ANNA
The origin of athis church is often linked to a miraculous event and, just to perpetually remember the recovered health of her son, the princess had "a new church built in praise, glory and honor of the most glorious Sant'Anna di Palmi" right next to her castle.
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Team 4- Martina Grassi
CHURCH OF "CARMINE"
The Basilica Santuario del Carmine is located in the city of Mesagne, 15 km far from Brindisi. It was built on the previous underground sanctuary dedicated to the Archangel Michael and it dates back to around 1305. It has been run by the Carmelite Fathers since 1520 and since 1960 it has been one of the seven parishes of the city. Visitors can admirte both the miraculous picture of the Virgin of Carmine and the eighteenth-century wooden statue.
The statue is carried in procession through the town cities the city twice a year; on our Patron saint's Day (February 20) and the Solemnity of Carmine (July 15-17).
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Team 4- Martina Grassi
TEMPLE OF S. LORENZO
The small temple of San Lorenzo, located north-east of the town centre of Mesagne was originally a small country church intended for the cult of the St Lawrence martyr. The building was built in the first centuries of the Christian era on the remains of a pagan temple dedicated to Janus Two-faced and the Greek cult was practiced inside it until the second half of the 16th century AD. The church is the result of several reconstruction and restoration interventions that took place over the centuries.
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Team 4- Martina Grassi
MEDIEVAL CASTLE
| It is in the centre of Mesagne.It was built in 11th Century by the Normans to protect the town. The castle has got 4 quadrangular towers and 3 floors, in the internal courtyard there are the portals with round arches. At present an area of the castle is used as a public musem. |
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Team 4 Lorenzo Solimeo
Matrice Church
It was initially built in
honor of the saints
Eleuterio, Anthia and
Corebo in the late 1400s,
the Mother Church was
subsequently subjected
to two renovations and
then dedicated to "All
Saints".A series of
architectural difficulties
led to the collapse of the
structure in 1649, and it
was therefore necessary
to start demanding
reconstruction works,
completed only in 1660.
Furthermore, the church
once housed the college
of priests and was until
1930 the only parish of
Mesagne.
Posted by
Leonardo
B.P. grove
What a precise title:
«The Baden-Powell
wood, in the locality
of Tagliata in
Mesagne». Which
suggests how many
people should be
careful to keep a
small jewel, because
the Tagliata locality,
as well as the entire
Mesagne area,has a
suggestive
countryside, rich -
for the moment - in
olive trees, but
cannot boast the
presence of many
woods .The
reference to
Baden-Powell calls
into question the
founder of scouting,
and therefore the
scouts of Mesagne
who, to tell the truth,
have frequented and
even cleaned the
wood several times,
the birth of which is
largely due to them.
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Leonardo
Municipal villa
Between via
Guglielmo Marconi,
via Tenente Ugo
Granafei, via
Boemondo
Normanno and
piazza Vittorio
Emanuele II, the
municipal park is
located in an urban
area, close to the
historic centre. It
extends for about
15,000 square
meters on a flat
area, with a regular
geometric shape.
Property of the
Municipality of
Mesagne, it is
protected by ope
legis as an asset of
historical interest
with more than 50
years, of a
non-living author
and owned by a
public body.
Without a fence, it
is always accessible to the public
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Leonardo