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Extract from the Martina Franca Travel Guides:
The
trulli
are still plentiful by the time you reach
MARTINA FRANCA
, a surprising town with a tangible Moorish flavour and a lively passeggiata at weekends. It is reputed to have been founded by Tarentine settlers fed up with constant Saracen attacks during the tenth century, but it was the Angevin prince of Tranto who bolstered the community in the early fourteenth century by granting it certain tax privileges. The town derives its name from this -
franca
meaning duty or stamp. Today its centre shelters within an unprepossessing approach of tower blocks, a medieval core adorned with some of the m...
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