Everything about Calimera totally explained
Calimera (
Καλημέρα, "good morning" in both
Greek and Griko) is a small town of 7,296 inhabitants in the
Grecìa Salentina area of the
Salento peninsula in
Italy, located between
Gallipoli and
Otranto. It belongs to the province of
Lecce.
The inhabitants of Calimera besides
Italian also speak
Griko, a Greek dialect. Apart from the language, the
folklore,
traditions and
history of Calimera, as the history of eight other cities in the area (called
Salentinian Greece), reveals significant Greek influences over the course of time, presumably from the time of the Byzantine control, or even the ancient
Magna Graecia colonisation in the
8th century BCE.
In the nice park of the town, you can find a small monument containing an ancient Attic burial stone, gifted by the city of
Athens in
1960 to Calimera. At the top of this monument there's a motto referred to the burial stone:
"Zeni su en ise ettù sti Kalimera" (in
Greek script: Ζένη 'σού 'εν είσαι ετού στη Καλημέρα), meaning "You are not a stranger here in Calimera", underlining the close relationships and common origins with the Greek Civilization.
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