THE SPECCHIE

 

To try the term “specchia” on dictionaries and encyclopedias is vain what, is be a matter of dialectal term salentino deriving from the Latin “speculates”: observatory, lookout-post; and it is just to that they were used, to observation posts, of lookout-post. Permane the term, by now disused, of “specola” that stà for astronomical observatory.    

                               

 

The construction technique, like for the “paiari” (straw piles), laughed them to the preistoria, in fact, is easy to more imagine that after the caverns, first tried you of the man to construct a nside they have been those to overlap shapeless masses before and pietrame more manageable small and in times succeeded to you gained with the disparate techniques: making to throw down the masses, scalfendoli with tools of harder stone or reperendolo to the natural state. They can consist in a monopremises similar to the most famous “paiari” or in more premises. Their height, according to the De Giorgi (1), “… Had to be from the 15 to the 25 meters that is near little that one of the Nuraghi more elevates you of the Sardinia. The specchie therefore as today we know are from attributing to them to a Messapi, whose come in the Salento, coming from from the Illiria around to the 1000 a.C ......