Presicce – Acquarica

Known as the town of hypogea, Presicce hides many underground olive presses, the trappeti, cut into the tufa when oil was the town's wealth and shipped as far as Naples and Spain. It lies in a well-watered hollow of lower Salento beneath the terraced Serra di Pozzomauro, and its old centre is built of 16th-century courtyard houses, each with a well and a stone washtub.

Highlights

• The underground oil presses, restored and opened to visitors since the 1990s
• The case a corte, humble houses grouped around shared courtyards
• Serra di Pozzomauro: dry-stone terraces, old olive groves and a ruined watchtower
• The story of the Mascarani, named after a masked man who shot the prince

Summary based on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.