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Bari Vecchia
Covering the narrow peninsula adjacent to the port, Bari Vecchia is an atmospheric labyrinth of tight, uneven alleyways. Squeezed into this small area are 40 churches and more than 120 shrines - if you can find them. Bari Vecchia's town plan is famous throughout Italy for its mazelike effect.
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Basilica di San Nicola
Heading north up Strade del Carmine will bring you to the doorstep of the Basilica di San Nicola , the first great Norman church in the south and the template for the restrained Puglian-Romanesque style that informed the architecture of so many of the region's churches. Its solid hulk sits astride four piazze known as the Corti del Catapano, as it's thought that the Byzantine governor's (catapan's) palace was once sited here.
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Castello Svevo
Sprawling Castello Svevo is one of a string of castles that dominate Apulian towns and ports. It started life as a Roman fort but was quickly incorporated by the Byzantines into a more complex system of fortification in the 11th century. It's located just outside the old city walls which it would have shielded from attack, whilst later also serving to keep wayward townspeople in check and impress on them the might of Norman imperial power.
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Cattedrale San Sabino
Just north of Strada Lamberti, the tortuous alleyways open out into Largo San Sabino where you're faced with the huge construct that makes up the Museo Diocesano and the Cattedrale San Sabino. Most people assume that the Basilica of San Nicola is Bari's main cathedral but this pearly white church dedicated to Bishop San Sabino is really the main seat of worship.
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Chiesa di San Gregorio
The church Chiesa di San Gregorio was once a Byzantine temple with a fine façade and a Romanesque interior.
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Chiesa di San Marco
The Venetian Chiesa di San Marco boasts a rose window sporting a Venetian lion at its centre. The Chiesa di Santa Teresa dei Maschi (Strada Incuria) is one of the few baroque churches.
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Chiesa di Santa Teresa dei Maschi
The Venetian Chiesa di San Marco (Strada San Marco 7) boasts a rose window sporting a Venetian lion at its centre. The Chiesa di Santa Teresa dei Maschi is one of the few baroque churches.
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Colonna della Giustizia
The Colonna della Giustizia (Column of Justice) is the place where debtors were tied and lashed
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Gipsoteca
The Castello Svevo houses the Gipsoteca (included with admission to castle), a permanent gallery that features plaster copies of Romanesque monumental sculpture between the 12th and 13th centuries. It includes a copy of Bishop Elias' Throne from the Basilica di San Nicola, slabs and capitals from the cathedral of Bitonto, bias reliefs of Trani's bronze doors and the ambo and Bishop's throne from the sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo.
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Museo Archeologico Provincale
Housed in the Palazzo Ateneo since 1880, Bari's Museo Archeologico now has a new location in the ex-monastery of Santa Scolastica right at the tip of the old town. There is currently no date set for its opening but the collection, once assembled, will cover the history of city from the pre-historic period (Paleolithic, Bronze and Iron Age finds) through the ceramics and objet d'art of the Classical era to the early Middle Ages, including a huge numismatic collection of some 12,000 coins.
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Museo Diocesano
Treasures such as carved stone fragments, icons, paintings and silver objects and reliquaries - can be found in the Museo Diocesano.
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Palazzo del Sedile
The Palazzo del Sedile has been much altered over time. It was the medieval headquarters of Bari's Council of Nobles.
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Palazzo Simi
Since 1999 Bari's Archaeological Operations Centre has been housed in Palazzo Simi, and until the new archaeological museum opens its doors in Santa Scolastica, the small archaeological exhibition here provides a reasonable idea of the city's history.
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Piazza del Ferrarese
Piazza del Ferrarese, named after the Ferrara merchant Stefano Fabri who lived here in the 17th century, provides an elegant entrance to the old town. On your left are the rounded arches of Sala Murat which holds minor contemporary art exhibitions, and on your right is the old indoor fish market. The piazza is lined with bars and cafés, an old section of roman road roped off in the middle. To the north it merges imperceptibly into another set-piece piazza, Piazza Mercantile.
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Piazza Mercantile
To the north of Piazza del Ferrarese it merges imperceptibly into another set-piece piazza, Piazza Mercantile, historically the political centre of the old town and an important public space. It contains the Palazzo del Sedile (much altered over time), the medieval headquarters of Bari's Council of Nobles, and the Colonna della Giustizia (Column of Justice), to which debtors were tied and lashed.
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Pinacoteca Provinciale
Behind the impressive neoclassical façade of the Palazzo della Provincia, you'll find the Pinacoteca Provinciale. The collection focuses firmly on southern Italian artists and the works span centuries. Pieces include fragments of 11th-century sculpture blown off churches during WWII, 13th-century icons and 15th-century Venetian altarpieces, huge canvases from the 17th- and 18th-century Neapolitan school, and a few 19th-century pieces.
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Porta dei Leoni
Heading north up Strade del Carmine will bring you to the doorstep of the Basilica di San Nicola, the first great Norman church in the south and the template for the restrained Puglian-Romanesque style that informed the architecture of so many of the region's churches.
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Teatro Petruzelli
Of all the grand theatres, it is the Teatro Petruzelli which dominates the hearts of the Barese opera-going public. It is a gorgeously grand Art Noveau music hall, with an enormous frescoed cupola, velvet seats, cherry-wood stage and golden cherubs. The opening night in February 1903 squeezed in an ecstatic crowd of 3200 people, and there was 'not a theatre box, not a seat, not a single empty place in the loggia' the newspapers reported the next day.
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