The legendary love story of Leucasia ... where the two seas meet... #tuttitaly
As we all know, Italy is shaped like a boot, and a boot needs a good heel to stand up. Our heel, I would say that it performs this task more than excellently, both for tourism, culinary products, and world fame.
There is a town in the most extreme part of our heel. To reach it is very simple, enter the heel and go as far south as possible until you get to an enchanting place called Santa Maria di Leuca.
Once you reach it, stay there for at least 2 or 3 days, even a week, and enjoy this beautiful destination.
But I recommend you don't stop only in the village, but go further: go up to the lighthouse, enjoy the view that overlooks the splendid Santa Maria di Leuca, then turn around and go to the lighthouse, with your gaze turned towards Punta Meliso, the most beautiful and incredible embrace of all time will appear in front of you, that of the two Seas: the Ionian and the Adriatic.
The effect of the waves breaking one against the other will surprise you and leave you amazed, a spectacle of indescribable beauty. However, it must be said that the two seas' official border is between Otranto and Capo Linguine in Albania.
But now, let's discover the legend of his name together:
"The Madonna is considered the protector of fishermen for an episode that took place in the sixteenth century, during which, it is said, the Virgin saved the fishermen and the inhabitants from a terrible storm. But the name of Leuca derives from a beautiful myth linked to ancient Greece. It is a story of love and pain that sees Leucasia as the protagonist, a Siren. Nobody had ever resisted the melodious song of the creature except Melisso, a shepherd who grazed his sheep on the rocks. Leucasia fell in love with him, but the young man's heart already belonged to another girl, Aristula.
So the siren plotted her revenge, and, waiting for the lovers to go down on the rocks for a romantic walk, she unleashed a storm and drowned them. Not only that. their bodies ended up separated forever on the two opposite edges of a gulf. The Goddess Minerva, who had witnessed the scene, decided to offer them eternity, petrifying their bodies out of pity towards the two lovers, which are today for all two points of promontories, Punta Meliso and Punta Ristola. Two ends destined never to touch, which together embrace a surface of the water right there, at the ends of the earth. The Siren for remorse also asked for petrifaction and became the white city of Leuca."
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