Southern Puglia is considered low seismic risk, but over the past thousand years it has undergone medium / high impact earthquake events. The chronicles report at least three major historical earthquakes, that of September 10, 1087 with an epicenter in Bari, that of February 20, 1743 with an epicenter in the Lower Ionian Sea and that of October 26, 1826 which struck Manduria. The most devastating was that of 1743, there were about 200 dead and there were collapses and devastations, numerous especially sacred buildings were razed to the ground. Among the Salento municipalities heavily affected there was also Galatina. A doubt emerges, however, was the only one reported by literature the only catastrophic event that hit the city ?. The geologist Francesca Lagna will talk about all this on February 22 at the Collegiate Church at 19:00 in the meeting of the College Meeting Review entitled -Galatina and the earthquake. The forgotten story-. Introduced by Don Antonio Santoro Rector of the Church of Santa Maria della Grazia. The festival, which has now reached its fourth year of the second year, is organized by the Fiordilibro bookshop with the collaboration of the Rettoria di Santa Maria della Grazia.
Fiordilibro bookshop Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 31, 73013 Galatina LE
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