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Description
Some authors think that Alessano was founded by the people of the river Alex near Reggio, others from the inhabitants of Alessia in Britain. Tasselli claims instead, that the origins of this town are to attribute to the epiroti,shipwrecked in our seas while they were passing by with Pirro fleet directed to the defense of the Tarantini against the Romans and that they called it Alessano from their hometown Alessia.
The Normans were certainly the ones who assigned to Alessano a prominent role on the whole Cape of Leuca and, that will be preserved for a long time. In fact, it was likely in that period that the city became an Episcopalian centre and it will remain the same up to the 1818. In the XV and XVI century Alessano lived his season heyday. Under the dominion of important noble families (the Della Ratta, the Del Balzo, the De Capua and finally the Gonzaga) the city became an important commercial centre, attracting also some families of rich Venetian dealers and a small Jewish community (that had the synagogue in Giudecca street) and therefore the the urban structure was enriched by the valuable buildings in pure Renaissance style that can be admired still today.
Within the court of the Duke a notable literary movement bloomed. Subsequently the centre decayed, up to gradually losing its position of prominence.
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