The parete is the name with which the remains of thick walls are known, built with the dry accumulation of rocks found in place, present in different places of Salento.
Particularly with structures of this kind was the defensive system of Ceglie Messapica, considered to date from the fourth to the fourth century BC, still partially preserved, with at least three walled enclosures, which also contained part of the territory.
At the path of these walls are connected a series of "mirrors", that is, large accumulations of circular planes and developed in height, interpreted as sight towers, perhaps of a previous phase and later embedded in the wall circuit.
The construction technique involved the lack of foundations and the laying of natural, unworked, alternately head and cut blocks to form two dry walls on the two sides of the wall, while the intermediate space was filled with result material. Notemodify wikitesto Voices correlateemodify wikitesto
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