Kalè polis, the "beautiful city": the Greeks had already understood. Old Gallipoli is a limestone island tied to the mainland by a seventeenth-century bridge, a skein of courtyards and Baroque churches ringed by bastions, its underground oil mills — dug into the tuff to press the lamp oil that lit Europe — telling of former wealth.
The Purità beach lies beneath the walls like a carpet; the fish market runs on red prawns and sea urchins. In summer the Baia Verde beaches turn up the volume; at dawn, the old town still belongs to the fishermen.
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Next up: Saint Sebastian, patron venerated with Saint Agatha in Gallipoli's Baroque basilica, Wednesday 20 January
Nearest airport: Brindisi, 67 km away
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📅 Every year, on 20 January
Gallipoli celebrates Saint Sebastian on 20 January; the town venerates him together with Saint Agatha as co-patron, keeping the silver busts of both in the Baroque co-cathedral built in the 17th century on the island's highest point.
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Outside Gallipoli, but an easy day trip away.
