| It was a center Messapian, then greek and later roman (Baletium), mentioned by Strabo and Pliny Balesium as in the first century AD as "Oppidum" (fortified town).
The city developed near a waterway. It was built probably in the eighth century BC as a settlement of huts.
its walls, made of irregular blocks, can be dated between the VI and IV-III century BC, was originally little more than 3 km long, 4 meters high and was just as often, and containing an urban area which extends over Messapian of 83 hectares. The Roman city is indicated in the Tabula Peutingeriana as well as Baletium and Mutatio Valentia Itinerarium Burdigalense the fourth century, or when it reached its maximum extension and was a place of the imperial postal service station "mutatio" (change of horses) on path of the road which connected Calabria Brindisi to Otranto (Hydruntum), the continuation of the street that ran through the village of Trajan Valesio and Lecce (Lupiae).
Of coaching are any structures related to a thermal plant, a complex in the center of the city
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