Calimera
Sign in to saveCalimera (Griko: lit. "good morning") is a small town of 6,753 inhabitants (2021) in the Grecìa Salentina area of the Salento peninsula in Italy, located between Gallipoli and Otranto. It belongs to the province of Lecce.
Key facts
- Italian comune.name
- Calimera
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Calimera
- Italian comune.native_name
- Καλημέρα/Kalimèra (Griko)
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Calimera-Stemma.svg
- Italian comune.shield_alt
- Coat of arms of Calimera
- Italian comune.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Italian comune.province
- (LE)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Gianluca Tommasi from 21-9-2020
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 11.14
- Italian comune.population_total
- 6753
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 31 December 2021
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Calimeresi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 56
- Italian comune.saint
- Saints Brizio and Maria di Roca
- Italian comune.day
- 29 July
- Italian comune.postal_code
- 73021
- Italian comune.area_code
- 0832
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Calimera (Griko: lit. "good morning") is a small town of 6,753 inhabitants (2021) 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, alongside Italian, also speak Griko, a Greek dialect. The language, folklore, traditions and history of Calimera, like those of the eight other cities in the area called "Salentine Greece", reveal 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.