Calimera

Infobox CityIT
official_name = Comune di Calimera
img_coa = Calimera-Stemma.png img_coa_small =
region = RegioneIT|sigla=PUG
province = ProvinciaIT|sigla=LE (LE)
mayor =
mayor_party =
elevation_footnotes =
elevation_m = 56
area_footnotes =
area_total_km2 = 11.14
population_footnotes =
population_as_of = 31-12-07
population_total = 7363
pop_density_footnotes =
population_density_km2 = 661
coordinates = coord|40|15|0|N|18|17|0|E|region:IT_type:city(7363)
gentilic = UCFIRST:calimeresi
telephone = 0832
postalcode = 73021
frazioni =
saint = San Brizio e Maria SS. di Roca
day = 29 July
mapx = #expr:40 + 15 / 60.0
mapy = #expr:18 + 17 / 60.0
locator_position =
native_name = Calimera
name = Calimera


website = http://www.comune.calimera.le.it/

Calimera ("Καλημέρα", "good morning" in both Greek and Griko) is a small town of 7,296 inhabitants in the Grecìa Salentina area of the Salento peninsula in Italy, located between Gallipoli and Otranto. It belongs to the province of Lecce.

The inhabitants of Calimera besides Italian also speak Griko, a Greek dialect. Apart from the language, the folklore, traditions and history of Calimera, as the history of eight other cities in the area (called "Salentinian Greece"), reveals significant Greek influences over the course of time, presumably from the time of the Byzantine control, or even the ancient Magna Graecia colonisation in the 8th century BCE.

In the nice park of the town, you can find a small monument containing an ancient Attic burial stone, gifted by the city of Athens in 1960 to Calimera. At the top of this monument there's a motto referred to the burial stone: "Zeni su en ise ettù sti Kalimera" (in Greek script: Ζένη 'σού 'εν είσαι ετού στη Καλημέρα), meaning "You are not a stranger here in Calimera", underlining the close relationships and common origins with the Greek Civilization.

ee also

* Ghetonia

External links

* [http://www.comune.calimera.le.it/ Community of Calimera] , in Italian