page_title: Roca (archaeological site)
hierarchical_section_title: Roca (archaeological site)
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Grotta della Poesia a Roca Vecchia (Melendugno, Puglia, Italia)
context_page_description: Roca is an archaeological site located on the Adriatic coast of Apulia in Southern Italy, a few kilometres from the modern town of Melendugno and close to the city of Lecce.
  The site, which has been explored since the end of the 1980s by a team of the University of Salento, has produced some of the best-preserved monumental architecture of the Bronze Age in Southern Italy, along with the largest set of Mycenaean pottery ever recovered west of mainland Greece.
  The occupation of the site continued also in the Iron Age and Classical times, when a large natural cavity known as Poesia Cave was used for cult practices involving the writing of thousands of dedications to a local deity in three languages: Greek, Messapic and Latin.
  The site was re-occupied in late medieval times, when a new town was founded by Walter VI, Count of Brienne.
context_section_description: Roca (also known as Rocavecchia or Roca Vecchia) is an archaeological site located on the Adriatic coast of Apulia in Southern Italy, a few kilometres from the modern town of Melendugno and close to the city of Lecce.
  The site, which has been explored since the end of the 1980s by a team of the University of Salento, has produced some of the best-preserved monumental architecture of the Bronze Age (2nd millennium BC) in Southern Italy, along with the largest set of Mycenaean pottery ever recovered west of mainland Greece.
  The occupation of the site continued also in the Iron Age and Classical times, when a large natural cavity known as Poesia Cave was used for cult practices involving the writing of thousands of dedications to a local deity in three languages: Greek, Messapic and Latin.
  The site was re-occupied in late medieval times, when a new town was founded by Walter VI, Count of Brienne.
caption: Grotta della Poesia
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