ETYMOLOGYof

MASSAFRA

THE NAME OF MASSAFRA DERIVES FROM “MASSA AFRA”=MASSA DI AFRICANI

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•Despite the absence of written documents, archaeological findings, with Byzantine and vandals coins of the V-VI century suggests that the village was built following the arrival of a group of refugees, driven from North Africa to the arrival of the Vandals.

Once in Puglia they asked for help to the Bishop ofTaranto, who had entrusted them with its "mass", great extension, located between the existing ravines of the Madonna della Scala and San Marco, where refugees from Africa dug their houses into the rock.

RAVINE “MADONNA DELLA SCALA”

RAVINE “SAN MARCO”

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