Tricase porto

Tricase Porto is a district of 269 inhabitants in the municipality of Tricase in the province of Lecce. It rises on the lower Adriatic side of Salento, 32 m above the sea level. The port of Tricase is located in a natural inlet overlooking the Ionian Sea along a coastline that stretches for about eight kilometers.

The coast is mainly low and rocky, indented, rich in thick vegetation and full of caves and small inlets. In one of these there is a port dating back to the fifteenth century, which has been joined by another smaller one for pleasure boats. Tricase Porto is a small bay scattered with villas. To the north it is protected by Pizzo Cannone; behind this rocky ledge, on the top of the cliff once stood the Torre del Porto, built by Charles V in 1532. In its place, after the British bombing in 1806, a cannon was placed, of which there is no longer any track. The pier to protect the boats moored to the south is called “muraglione” and was built in 1842. For the crystal clear sea.

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