Primitivo has its capital here: Manduria names the DOC of the powerful red that conquered the world, and the wine-civilisation museum, in the consortium's underground cellars, tells its redemption — from blending wine to standard-bearer of the South. The Messapian city survives in the archaeological park: three rings of megalithic walls and thousands of tombs.
At the park's centre lies the Pliny Spring: the cave-well the Elder Pliny cited for water that never overflows. The Caribbean-tinted sea of San Pietro in Bevagna is ten minutes away through the vineyards.
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