The Castle
The Castle of Ugento, one of the most beautiful buildings in Salento, stands on the highest point of the city.
Ugento introduzione archeologica
Archaeological introduction
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The Messapian city wall
The city walls of Ugento date back to the period of maximum expansion of the Messapian centre, around the middle of the 4th century BC. Their construction took place in a historical moment of great instability and conflict between the Messapian and Tarentini, even if at first the walls mainly responded to the desire of the urban aristocracy to define the urban perimeter and mark the distinction with the surrounding countryside
The necropolises of Ugento between the 6th and 1st centuries. B.C.
The oldest tombs tracking back to the Messapian settlement of Ugento, and whose grave goods are exhibited in the Museum, date back to the 6th century BC and consist of sarcophagus or coffin burials made of calcarenite slabs, which can also reach considerable dimensions with a so-called semi-chamber structure.
Ugento in Messapian, Roman and medieval times
Although sporadic finds allow us to hypothesise at least the presence of the site since the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods, there is some evidence of a first settlement on the top of the Ugento hill, corresponding to its southern part, which is now the historical centre, from the Late Bronze Age (12th-10th century BC)