4. BEFORE THE FOUNDING OF FRANCAVILLA

Land of buried civilizations

Nothing in human history ever emerges from nothing, as it was for Francavilla Fontana, a town that emerged from layers of the ruins, cemeteries, and skeletons underneath it.  Successive populations settled on that land, few realizing they were building atop buried civilizations.  Founded around 1310, it was still a small and young town in 1480, the year…