Crossword clues for otranto
otranto
- Horace Walpole's "The Castle of ___"
- Italian city, setting of a Walpole novel
- Italian port with ruins of an imposing Aragonese castle
- Town on the SE tip of Italy that's the title setting for a Horace Walpole novel
- Italian city that is the title setting of a Walpole novel
- Town at the tip of Italy's "heel"
- Walpole's "The Castle of ___"
- Italian town that's too upset to contain diatribe
- Adriatic seaport
Wikipedia
Otranto (; ) is a town and comune in the province of Lecce ( Apulia, Italy), in a fertile region once famous for its breed of horses.
It is located on the east coast of the Salento peninsula. The Strait of Otranto, to which the city gives its name, connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. The harbour is small and has little trade.
The lighthouse Faro della Palascìa, at approximately southeast of Otranto, marks the most easterly point of the Italian mainland.
About south lies the promontory of Santa Maria di Leuca (so called since ancient times from its white cliffs, leukos being Greek for white), the southeastern extremity of Italy, the ancient Promontorium lapygium or Sallentinum. The district between this promontory and Otranto is thickly populated and very fertile.
Otranto is a city in Italy.
Otranto may also refer to:
- HMS Otranto
- Otranto Township, Mitchell County, Iowa, USA
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
- Castle of Otranto (film)