"Wedding celebrations at Palace: D’Azzia arrival in Laterza"

Laterza, quaint town in the province of Taranto, is famous for the white majolica, a real distinctive sign of Laterza’s ceramists and for its “gravina" (Laterza’s Ravine), the most extraordinary one among the ravines around the Golf of Taranto. The “canyon of Europe” stretches for 12 km and in some areas it is also 500 metres large.

Here you can experience the ancient origin of the city, admiring several rocky churches and the evidence left by man since the prehistory.

Laterza is also a town with ancient traditions and yearly event “Wedding celebrations at Palace: D’Azzia arrival in Laterza” is one of the most important historical reconstruction in Puglia.

The parade “Wedding celebrations at Palace: D’Azzia arrival in Laterza” celebrates the arrival in Laterza of the Marquis Giuseppe D’Azzia Count of Noia, Grand of Spain and his bride Isabella Aldano.

When in 1610 the young couple enters the feud, the population welcomes the lavish festivities.

The association “ProLoco Laterza”, through an accurate reproduction of the characters and environments of the time want to create a unique event, a trip back in time through the streets of our town, monuments, churches, frescoes, traditions, ancient crafts disappeared, the scents and the colors…

Flag-waves, street performers, equestrian art, historical fencing, court dances, fireworks and hundreads of people in seventeenth-century costumes waiting for you on Satuarday and Sunday 18th and 19th July 2015 in the beautiful ring of the Land of the Ravines.

Guided tours and excursions, markets and food stands… we are ready…

now we are waiting for you!