TARANTO (Italy) – Tastes of the South

HISTORY AND FEATURES

I was born in Taranto Southern Italy, a coastal city in Puglia (Apulia) facing the Ionian bay, which flows into the Mediterranean Sea.

Founded by the Spartans as a Greek colony in the year 706 BC, the city arises about 48 feet above sea level and in modern times developed into one of the main naval NATO base as well as into expanded steel and iron foundries, oil refineries, naval shipyards and food-processing factories.

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