At about 6.500 km from the town of Ceglie, along State Road 581 leading to Martina Franca, past the farmhouses and Picoco Tarturiello, we find a path on the right leading to the Masseria Semeraro or Sumara and the district of the same name . The current district, consists of a plateau in the hills of San Pietro, Monte d'Oro and Lamia Nova, is wedged between the districts of spasm north and east, south of St. Peter and Tarturiello west. The original name of this land was PADULA MONACA and stretched for about a hundred acres and its old boundaries were: WINDOWS district and east district PALACE, Contrada San Pietro in the south, the district MONTE west and north of Falcon. In the seventeenth century the district changed its name, assuming that the owner: SEMERARO, who bought it in 1599 by a descendant of the Family MONACO. This name has been preserved to this day.
From cadastre of 1603, kept in the Brindisi, we read:
de Angelo Semeraro MARTINA juxta sua cedola possede:
1. In loco detto Santo Pietro , seu Padula Monaca , ettara trentatre di terre chiuse, con una cisterna piccola, dentro dentro, quale non è stagna, si non due palmi, et un'altra mezza cisterna, fundata tra le pareti di detta chiusura, comune con le terre di Santo Salvatore della Pecorara, et è stagna solo quattro palm 
i. Et anco vi sono otto arbori d'olive dentro dette chiuse. Se stimano le terre ettara tredeci docati cento trenta, ettara diece docati ottanta, ettara diece docati sessanta. Conforme sono stimate al altri Citadini. La cisterna piccola se stima decedotto, la mità de l'altra docatio dodeci, compared to that felt good, they are all docati three hundred.
i. Et anco vi sono otto arbori d'olive dentro dette chiuse. Se stimano le terre ettara tredeci docati cento trenta, ettara diece docati ottanta, ettara diece docati sessanta. Conforme sono stimate al altri Citadini. La cisterna piccola se stima decedotto, la mità de l'altra docatio dodeci, compared to that felt good, they are all docati three hundred. 2. Possesses sixty five acres of open lands, of which there are twenty mountainous, with a nova style. It is bordered by Marco Antonio Vacca, John Notar Antonio Coluccio, Giovanni Battista Monaco and other boundaries. If you estimate the land open to the docati dui hectare, are estimated in accordance to 'Citadine nova style and whether to estimate docati sixty. In all, one hundred and ninety docati as Massaria bought by Giovanni Battista Monaco Ceglie of this earth to 'day .... (Text missing). Haver be paid for the contracts must be obligated et alli which bought the three years are used.
Commento:
Marco Antonio Vacca (di Martina) era il proprietario della Masseria Palazzo; il Notar Giovanni Antonio Coluccio (di Martina) possedeva a quel tempo la Masseria Monte delli Falconi e Giovanni Battista Monaco (di Ceglie) era il proprietario della Masseria San Pietro.
I possedimenti del Monastero di San Salvatore sconfinavano anche nel territorio di Ceglie.
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