This paper is devoted to study the dispersive properties of the linear Klein-Gordon and wave equations on a class of locally symmetric spaces. As a consequence, we obtain the Strichartz estimate and prove global wellposedness results for the corresponding semilinear equation with low regularity data as on real hyperbolic spaces.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification. 35Q55, 43A85, 22E30, 35P25, 47J35, 58D25.