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VERETO

And' general conviction of the researchers that the city of Iria corresponds to Vereto. And' some that such city became famous in the antiquity in the whole basin of the Mediterranean, in the period of maximum shine you/he/she was defended by mighty boundaries - to blocks isodomi - long more than 4 Kms and it dominated on a district that he/she also embraced Leuca and the neighbor S. Gregorio: in the bay of S. Gregorio Vereto he/she built a comfort I bring, whose rests can be admired on the bottom of the sea, to few meters deep, really in front of the rocky point that protects the inlet from the mareggiates of sirocco. 

Other testimonies veretine survivors to S.Gregorio are a stairway messapica and the mouth of a well that once supplied of fresh water the ships to the deep one..

In the III century a.C., when the Salento was conquered from Rome, Vereto became a town hall; he/she anchors in the church of Baptist S. Giovanni to Patù today, to the left of whom enters, a big block of marble is preserved, a Roman cippo on whose façade reads the following registration in Latin: M. Fadio M.F. / / Fab. Valerino / / Post mortem / / M. Fadius Valerianus pater / / et Mines Valerian mater / / L.D.D.D. (Locum Decree Decurionis Dant) (Á. Mark Fadio / / Valerino / / after the death / / Mark Valeriano father / / and it Mines mother Valerian / / they set with decree of the Decurione). 

This stone, note as "base of the Fadiis", datable for unanimous consent to the The-II AD century owes its importance to the fact that is the most evident test of the town institution in Vereto during the Roman conquest, with the more precious particularity still of the statute known as decurionato. The three characters of the epigraph - father, mother and child - they bring the same last name Valerianus,: evidently his/her parents were of the libertis that had assumed that last name to the action of the emancipation in honor of the benefactor, for then to also impose him/it to the little child. 

To find as a city powerful messapica Vereto needed to move himself/herself/themselves up to Ugento toward west, and up to Vast in direction north. In Roman epoch you/he/she had comfortably served from the Street Traiana that, made to build AD in the whole Salento around 106 from the emperor Traiano in amplification to the ancient Street Appia, it turned all around the peninsula beginning from Brindisi to end in Taranto, similar to a sort of coast circumsalentina: draws survivors of ancient streets they are shed in the classical area veretina; motive for attraction they are the rests of the wide building entourage of Vereto, datable to the IV century a.C., and brief lines of walls d' Roman epoch.  

The most greater part of the archaeological finds and epigrafici come to the light from the countries of excavation or following accidental recoveries, are preserved near the Provincial Museum of Lecce: as objects - terrecotte, vases, olle, oil lamps, capitals - they are ended in the hands of privacies and from here in the clandestine market of the antiquariato. And' I snoop the fact that, wandering about among the grounds of the hill of Vereto, I/you/he/she come upon us in so many dwarfish ceramics fragments and terracotta that have become an only I mix with the vegetable ground. 

And' opinion consolidated that the center of the ancient city messapica corresponds to the zone in which today the chiesetta of the Madonna of Vereto rises, the most elevated point in the whole hill. [...]  

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Cesare Daquino, I Messapi e Vereto, Capone Editore, Cavallino 1991, pp. 256-257.

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