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torrepaduli tamburelli

#celebratewithtrip The village of Torrepaduli belongs to the municipality of Ruffano, in the province of Lecce, region Puglia. TAMBURELLISTI DI TORREPADULI is the soul of Taranta Music the most famous "tamburelli" playing number since ever. Among these villages we are fascinated by Ruffano, a somewhat deserted country in the center of Italy’s heel, in the low Salento. One of the peculiarities that immediately jump to the eye of the land where the country rises is the “serre”, a sort of little hills. The same village is not as flat as most of the Salento’s centers but it is inert on one of them, as it is visible as if it were a thick coat of arms, it is the one to the right of the village bordered by a holm oaks and oak forest. Products related to tradition are also tambourines. In the hamlet of Torrepaduli, the kingdom of Pizzica, master Rocco Luca builds his instruments, the famous Tamburelli of Torrepaduli. Produced entirely in handicrafts with kid’s or bigger ones, goat’s. The frames are made of beech wood and treated only with natural oils. And those are the ones played by “The Tamburellists of the Torrepaduli”, the group set up by Rocco in the late 1980s and soon became famous, not only in Salento. Tamburellisti di Torrepaduli are the one band musically and conceptually closer to the ideal of Graecia Magna, due to the fact that they have re-proposed the Greek tradition of monody and released several albums of grìko music and taranta #taranta #puglia #traditional #culture #amazingplace #goodfoods