Italy's easternmost town, a walled port on the Salento coast facing the Adriatic toward Albania.
Its Romanesque cathedral is paved with a vast twelfth-century Tree of Life mosaic, and a chapel holds the relics of the 800 martyrs killed in the Ottoman raid of 1480.
When to visit Otranto
Average highs and lows across the year.
What to see first
Otranto Cathedral
The cathedral floored edge to edge by a single monk's twelfth-century mosaic world.
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What to eat, and drink
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