Hill of the Eerie Idols

At the foot of the “Serra dei Peccatori”, near Specchia’s cemetery, stands the “Hill of the Eerie Idols”, an open-air work by Mario Branca, known as Marius, which offers a view of the village and the allure of the Salento countryside.\n\nThe site was created on land owned by the artist himself, around an old rural settlement, between two pilgrimage trails and among the branches of olive trees and the herbs of the Mediterranean maquis, where one can find unique rupestrian architectures in an archaic style, such as the dry-stone chapel of Our Lady of the Emigrant, along with ceramics and iron assemblies.