Martina Franca (Puglia)

Flea market in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, in Martina Franca

Alleyway of Martina Franca

View of the Basilica di San Martino in Martina Franca

Martina Franca or only Martina is a municipality in the province of Taranto, Puglia. Since 1975, the town has hosted the annual summer opera festival, the Festival della Valle d'Itria. The town has a particularly beautiful old town surrounded by stone walls with prominent Baroque gates leading to piazzas and narrow, winding streets. Piazza Roma is the largest square in the old town, with a greenspace in the center of a largely triangular grass pattern, facing the 17th century Palazzo Ducale.

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