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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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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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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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