Altamura - Altamura

Altamura is a city of Puglia, known above all for its DOP bread.

To know

Geographical notes

Part of the territory of Altamura is included in the Alta Murgia National Park. Among the sinkholes we remember the Pulo di Altamura, which has a cavity of karst origin; opens in the hills of the Murgian plateau at about 477 m a.s.l. and 92 m deep.

A skeleton of Homo neanderthalensis, known as Man of Altamura, was found on site. The cave, discovered in October 1993, is located at about 450 m a.s.l. and is 1.2 km from Masseria Lamalunga.

In locality Pontrelli instead, footprints have been found imprinted by dinosaurs that lived about 80 million years ago.

When to go

Altamura's climate is sub-Mediterranean, with moderately cold winters and hot, dry summers. Annual rainfall is around 550 mm, with greater frequency in the coldest months and few episodes (sometimes violent) in the summer months.

Background

The man from Altamura

In 1993 the remains of intact human skeletons dating back to the Paleolithic were found in the Lamalunga cave. It was found a good state of conservation, especially of the skull. It is an adult male, about one meter and sixty tall, the skull shows both archaic features and morphological transformations typical of the Neanderthal populations; it is placed in the group of human fossils of the Middle-European Pleistocene. In 2015 the La Sapienza University of Rome dated it to between 128,000 and 187,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest Neanderthal finds. The study was cited in the journal Nature.

Before the foundation of the city of Altamura by Frederick II of Swabia, there were only a few small residential areas and the ruins of a previous ancient city, including the megalithic walls of the city. Emperor Frederick II, on his visit in 1232, decided to build a basilica dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta.

In 1531, after the Spanish conquest of Puglia, the citizens redeemed its administrative autonomy. It was then marital dowry of Margaret of Austria, and in this period there was a notable expansion outside the city walls.In 1647 the Masaniello insurrection in Naples involved many other cities of the kingdom in a movement against feudality, including these Altamura, which had decisively opposed the attempts of reconquest by Giangirolamo II Acquaviva d'Aragona. On that occasion, Altamura joined the Neapolitan Republic and for a short time governed itself. In 1748 Charles VII of Naples founded a university there: a difficult path of affirmation, among the first ever in all of Southern Italy.

In 1799, only 10 years after the ignition of the French Revolution, the Tree of Liberty was planted and the republic proclaimed.

Altamura enthusiastically welcomed the new Jacobin ideas. The dream of freedom, however, lasted very little: the troops of Santafede, led by Cardinal Fabrizio Ruffo, arrived almost immediately to the reconquest of the city. Altamura tried to resist by any means, with only three guns and a few ammunition. On May 10 of the same year, the pro-Bourbon army entered the city, sacking it and restoring the nobility to power.

After the events of 1799, Altamura had the name "Lioness of Puglia" for the courage shown during the rebellion against the Bourbons.

How to orient yourself

The cloisters

The cloisters are typical squares or large squares that open onto the main streets of the historic center of Altamura. The local denomination is gnostre and they are unique in popular architecture. There are about 80 of them and they represent the spontaneous aggregation of family or ethnic groups (Latins, Moors, Jews). Their conformation performed not only a social function but also a defensive one: the cloister, with the only entrance, constituted a trap for the enemies who, if they had ventured this far, would have remained imprisoned and overwhelmed by throwing stones, water. or other. There are two types of cloisters: that of Greek style with the wide rounded and in the center a well or a tree and that of Arabic style narrow and long with a small closed road and at the bottom a well for rainwater. Among the most picturesque and characteristic are the Giudecca, Inferno and Tradimento cloisters. Many cloisters have been abandoned and therefore today they are uninhabited and poorly reduced.

Fractions

• Curtaniello
• Cooker
• Our Lady of the Good Way
• Masseria Franchini
• Casal Sabini
• Parisi Vecchia
• Selva
• Graviscella

How to get

By plane

The airport of Bari—Palese is 60 km from Matera and is connected to the city by shuttle bus.

How to get around

By public transport

Public transport within the city is managed by the companies Autolinee Marino, STP and mainly FAL; it is divided into four circular lines, which touch all the most important points of the city, including the suburbs.

By car

The city is affected by the presence of ZTL which concerns the entire area of ​​the historic center and mainly the following streets: Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Corso Umberto I and Via Maggio 1648.

• 40.82888116.552081 parking area, Via Castello, 8. 
• 40.82711816.5455992 Free parking. 
• 40.83553616.5570543 Free parking, Via the Carrera (near the stadium). 

What see

Churches

• 40.8274116.553111 Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Piazza Duomo, ☎ 390803117032. Mon-Sun 8: 00-12: 00 and 16: 00-20: 00. This church dates back to 1232, when the emperor Frederick II of Swabia had the church built by dedicating it to Maria Assunta and placed it under the patronage of himself and his descendants. The orientation of the cathedral is inverted with respect to the original (apse to the east and facade to the west, originally, then inverted orientation with the facade facing east). The construction of the northern portal which today opens in piazza duomo dates back to the time of the Angevin sovereign, while the construction of a second bell tower, the altar area and the current sacristy were added in the first half of the sixteenth century. Eighteenth-century works are instead the loggia between the two bell towers with the statues of the Virgin between the SS. Pietro e Paolo, the terminations of the bell towers and the internal marble lining. In evidence the two column-carrying lions retouched by an artist from Andria, Maestro Antonio.  

• 40.83071116.5576392 Church of Sant'Agostino (Church of S. Agostino and S. Maria Della Sanità), Piazza Madonna Della Sanità, 1, ☎ 390803143401. It was the seat of the Augustinian fathers from 1541 and was consecrated in 1570. Initially it was dedicated to Santa Maria del Popolo. In 1808 the Augustinians were expelled due to the law promulgated by Gioacchino Murat and the premises of the convent, in 1861, became the seat of the municipal slaughterhouse, now transferred elsewhere. The church became a parish in 1947 with the title of Santa Maria della Sanità, whose image is found in the chapel of the Most Holy. Bishop Tarcisio Pisani entitled the parish to Saint Augustine.  
• 40.82712716.5542233 Church of Santa Chiara, Via Already Corte D'Appello. The church and the adjoining monastery were built in 1679. In 1682 two Poor Clare nuns with seventeen novices entered the new monastery. The facade of the church is characterized by a protruding cornice that divides it in two. In the lower part there are three niches with the statues of St. Francis of Assisi (left), of the Immaculate Conception (in the center) and of St. Clare of Assisi (right). The bell tower that rises on the right side of the church is of Baroque origin and was built between 1722 and 1723. The interior consists of a single nave on the sides of which there are altars embellished with paintings by unknown painters of the 1700s. On the presbytery there is a white marble altar on which there is a huge canvas depicting the Immaculate Conception with St. Francis of Assisi, St. Clare of Assisi and St. Anthony of Padua.  

• 40.82390316.5535254 Church of San Domenico, Zanardelli square (next to the classical high school Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi historically a convent of the Dominican friars). The church stands in Piazza Giuseppe Zanardelli and is part of the monastic complex dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century by the monks of the Dominican Order around an already existing nucleus consisting of the church of San Rocco of which a statue remains, dating back to the eighteenth century . The church was built in 1716 and dedicated to the saint. The church of San Domenico is an example of Apulian Baroque and is distinguished by an important dome 37 meters high decorated with majolica plates, for the flooring, also in majolica and terracotta and for the eighteenth-century altars attributed to Crescenzo Trinchese.  
• 40.82590816.5527825 Church of San Francesco da Paola, Corso Federico II di Svevia. The church is nothing more than an extension of an ancient religious complex dating back to 1563, characterized by a simple facade, which continues with the adjoining monastery. The main façade is completely unadorned and defined by four pilasters with Ionic capitals; it develops in height through the two bell towers of the church which are parallel to those of the nearby Cathedral. The interior of the church has a hexagonal plan with a central nave and side chapels. It differs from the architectural typologies of the Franciscan Order and seems to align itself with the study of centric iconographies that Neapolitan architects had been studying since the end of the sixteenth century. The ancient women's galleries have hexagonal wooden lattice windows. The main altar is carved in marble and contains the painting of the Vestition of Santa Chiara by Andrea Miglionico. In the second half of the nineteenth century the church underwent many interventions that changed its appearance: the ancient altars of the side chapels were replaced by wooden altars with statues of the titular saint and Sant'Anna, by the sculptor of Altamura Nicola Altieri, coming from from the destroyed church of San Francesco dei Frati Minori. During the restoration work at the beginning of 2012, a medieval fountain-cistern was found, which is currently being investigated.  
• 40.8242716.5514046 Church of Santa Maria della Consolazione, Zanardelli Square, ☎ 390803111937. It contains several works of art from the Altamura artistic heritage: the marble statue of San Vito, to whose cult the church was previously dedicated, sculpted in Naples in 1620 by Michelangelo Naccherino; the Madonna and Child between Saints Anthony and Leonardo, painted at the end of the sixteenth century by Francesco Curia; San Matteo and the Angel by the Venetian painter Sebastiano Ricci who painted it in the early eighteenth century; Sant'Orsola and her companions and the Mother of Consolation on the high altar, from 1634, by the painter Gian Donato Oppido from Matera.  

• 40.82708416.5531267 Church of San Michele al Corso, Corso Federico II di Svevia, 100. The church has a simple facade on which a rectangular window stands out. The bell tower contains two bells dating back to the nineteenth century: a smaller one, built in 1892, and a larger one from 1839. Inside the church there are valuable eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century paintings, including the Madonna del Purgatorio by Francesco Guarini, the greatest painter of Gravina in Puglia. The main altar and the presbytery are in the Rococo style.  

• 40.82808916.5535538 Church of San Nicola dei Greci, Corso Federico II di Svevia. Erected at the behest of Frederick II of Swabia in 1232, it is a church of Altamura and is located on the main street of the historic center, Corso Federico II di Svevia, a few steps from the cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. The church was officiated with a Greek rite until 1601. It was rebuilt in the second half of the sixteenth century and on this occasion the Mastro Cola de Gessa built the portal finished between 1574 and 1576. The construction of the iconostasis, then dismembered and adapted for the choir of the Latin rite. Set on an ashlar base, the façade has a gabled profile with a central rose window. The interior, with a single nave with small side chapels, retains an interesting seventeenth-century wooden ceiling with scenes from the life of St. Nicholas. Noteworthy are also the lateral gilded wooden altars with inlaid decoration.  

• 40.82937616.5511539 Church of Santa Teresa, Via Vittorio Veneto, 53. It was built in 1712 by the Reformed Discalced Carmelites, also called Teresian fathers. Today the baroque church appears with a dome and inside there are eighteenth-century marble altars as well as the discreet cloister of the Teresian Fathers.  

• 40.82000116.55715810 Church of San Giovanni Bosco, Via P. Metastasio, 63, ☎ 390803113489. On 7 September 1969 the church was consecrated and dedicated by Mons. Enrico Nicodemo. Works of artistic and religious interest are: the Via Crucis, by Mellini of Florence, the image of Mary Help of Christians of Christians, the mosaics representing Biblical Marian scenes, the chapel of the Baptistery, the bronze group of San Giovanni Bosco and San Domenico Savio dello sculptor Mario Colonna and placed on the facade of the church, the images of Mary Help of Christians, the work of Hartur Aunggldier of Ortisei, the wooden sculptures of Jesus Crucified and Saint Anthony of Padua and a painting on canvas of San Giovanni Bosco from 1880 by Rollini.  
• 40.82418416.55794111 Church of San Sepolcro, Via Monte Calvario, 52, ☎ 390803115144. In the first twenty years of the 1600s, the Apostolic Vicar of Altamura started the construction of chapels dedicated to the mysteries of the Via Crucis along the slope outside the walls to the east of the old city. The last chapel dedicated to the Holy Sepulcher, enlarged and profoundly remodeled at the end of the nineteenth century, was erected as a parish on June 1, 1941. After the swirling urban expansion of the 1950s-1960s, the old nineteenth-century church was demolished. The new church, consecrated on April 5, 1974, underwent a radical renovation twenty years later, and again consecrated on June 2, 2005.  

Museums

• 40.82628716.55558612 Altamura Man Museum (Baldassarre Palace), Via Baldassarre Fratelli, 1, ☎ 39 3402645147, @[email protected]. full 4 €, reduced 2 € (Jul 2020). Temporarily closed. The museum focuses on the biological evolution of man with particular importance to the Man of Altamura of which a life-size copy of the find is exhibited which obviously cannot be removed from the cave of origin, namely that of Lamalunga. 

• 40.8276416.558513 National Archaeological Museum, Via Santeramo in Colle, 88, ☎ 39 080 3146409, @[email protected]. Mon-Wed-Fri-Sat 9: 00-13: 30, Tue-Thu 9: 00-19: 00, First and second Sun 9: 00-13: 30. The first floor of the museum is divided into four sections: prehistoric, archaic, classical-Hellenistic, medieval. The second illustrates the Paleolithic of Puglia which also describes the discovery of the man from Altamura. Everything is enriched by multimedia reconstructions.  
• 40.82415316.55272214 Civic Museum Library Archive (A.B.M.C.), Zanardelli square, 30.  
• 40.82456116.55345815 Portuguese Typographical Art Museum, Via Scipione Ronchetti, 2. Place of the heart of the FAI. In the museum there are machines for movable type, two flat cylindrical machines with mechanical operation, one from the end of the 19th century, the other dated 1904, other machinery dating from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, tools, shelving, counters for the composition of cliches in wood and zinc. 
• 40.8292216.55053116 Ethnographic Museum of Alta Murgia, Via Vittorio Veneto, 53, @[email protected]. Tue-Wed 10: 30-12: 30, Thu-Fri 10: 30-12: 30 and 16: 00-19: 00, Sat-Sun 10: 30-12: 30 and 15: 00-20: 00. It is a museum dedicated to the cultural and social traditions of Alta Murgia between the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century.  
• 40.8277316.5529617 Diocesan Museum Matronei Altamura (MUDIMA), Piazza Duomo, 1 (inside the galleries of the Cathedral of Altamura), ☎ 393481518763. The museum contains the finds, ancient statues dating back to the Middle Ages, the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Also on display are breviaries, notarial letters, relics and all the goods preserved inside the Cathedral of Altamura. Also noteworthy is the so-called Murat cloak.  

Other

• 40.82965616.55392818 Porta Bari, Corso Federico II of Swabia. It was one of the access gates to the city of Altamura, before the walls were almost completely demolished during the nineteenth century. The door, in its present form, was built between the 16th and 17th centuries.  

• 40.83128516.56276919 Megalithic walls of Altamura, via Megalithic walls. Erected between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC. are visible for some stretches. They were 4 km long, 6 m high and 6 m wide; and they enclosed in their wide and double circle (another smaller one is around the acropolis) the highest and most sacred part of the city. The megalithic walls are often confused with the boundary wall of today's historic center, of which fragments remain today in some parts. The difference between the two walls is substantial: the megalithic walls refer to the ancient city, which was later abandoned or sacked, while the surrounding walls of the historic center refer to the period following the foundation of Altamura by King Frederick II. of Swabia  

Out of town

• 40.86504716.58138620 Lamalunga Visitor Center, (Inside the Alta Murgia National Park), ☎ 39 3396144164. Guided tour in the cave, full 4 €, reduced 2 € (Jul 2020). Tue-Sun 10: 00-13: 00 and 16: 00-19: 00. The visitor center allows you to have a look at the karst environments of the Alta Murgia. In the rooms some tools and utensils related to the geology of the territory are exhibited. The free and passionate explanation of the guides is suitable for adults and children. There is a projection room where useful videos illustrating the area are shown and a bat room (very haphazard) where the ultrasounds with which these mammals move are reproduced in the dark. Not to be missed for those who want to know the general aspects of the area. 
• 40.87186216.58748621 Grotta della Capra. 

• 40.80636216.6214122 Dinosaur quarry (Cava Pontrelli), . Thirty thousand dinosaur footprints found in 1999. The footprints date back to the upper Cretaceous period, between 70 and 80 million years ago, when the climate in Puglia was tropical (hot and humid), and testify to the presence of over two hundred animals, belonging to five different groups of dinosaurs, herbivores and carnivores. The dimensions of the footprints vary from 5 - 6 cm up to 40 - 45 cm, suggesting that you are facing animals up to 10 meters tall. The state of conservation of the footprints is probably due to the presence of a marshy ground with a muddy bottom, with carpets of algae that allowed the footprint to be cemented. 

• 40.88969516.56831923 Pulo of Altamura, (in the North Murgia, near the Lamalunga Grotto). It looks like the largest local karst sinkhole, about 550 meters wide and 95 meters deep. It has steep but grassy walls, with a narrow path that goes down to the bottom where there is a carpet of fertile and cultivated land. At the base of the Pulo there is a sinkhole (point of the karst surface where the water penetrates the subsoil). The sinkholes due to their conformation allow the presence of some particular conditions (protection from the winds, low temperatures on the bottom, soils rich in minerals) allow a habitat that hosts unusual flora and fauna for the area (for example the royal crow). On a rocky wall there are some caves. Furthermore, the lithic artifacts found testify that the caves that open into the wall were inhabited in the Paleolithic. It is important to observe the fronts of the sinkhole. In many areas, the heads of the rocky layers that protrude from the walls seem to converge to form a mild syncline, confirming the collapse of the sinkhole established by Colamonico in 1919. It is very likely that the erosive furrow of the north-east has more than two millions of years ago it was underground and that in correspondence of the Pulo it had its final address in a sinkhole which gradually widened to such an extent as to cancel the arch effect of the overlying rocks and collapse. The northern wall of the Pulo has several levels of caves and tunnels, which can be defined as interlayer cavities.  

Fortified farms

• 40.86222516.37611724 Masseria Calderoni, Contrada Calderoni, Gravina in Puglia. This masseria is an example of a masseria da campo, that is to say a masseria built for the management of agricultural farms, and not to house livestock. The building, dating back to around 1530, was built by an unknown religious order. Later the farm was purchased by the Calderoni family of Gravina in Puglia who in the seventeenth century (1620 ca) significantly enlarged the farm and in 1758 adapted the main stable. The patronal house and the chapel have frescoes dating back to the 17th century. The complex consists of three buildings, which delimit a courtyard on three sides. The main building was used as a manor house, and still today has some elements, which must have contributed to the defense of the farm, such as the central tower, surmounted by a dome with four slits; and a hanging sentry box, also equipped with loopholes. In addition, even the dry stone walls around the farm (five meters high and three wide) could be useful in case of any enemy attack. On the left side of the main house there is another building, with a ground floor that served as the residence of the seasonal laborers, and an upper floor used as the farmer's house. 
• 40.84610716.48193925 Masseria Santa Teresa. The Santa Teresa farm is located north-west of the town of Altamura, not far from the old Parisi area. The currently visible complex dates back to the years between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the area was undoubtedly used in more remote times, as evidenced by the presence of a snowfield for the collection of precious snow in winter and caves now closed where wells, kitchens, cellars, tunnels were placed. The farm was purchased in the first half of the seventeenth century by the Discalced Carmelite friars who arrived in Altamura in those years, belonging to the order of Santa Teresa d'Avila, who lived in the sixteenth century. 
• 40.92206516.57572926 Masseria De Angelis, Road to the Pulo (SP 157), Contrada Parco La Mena, ☎ 393336729237. The oldest nucleus, that is to say the house of the farmers and most of the production buildings, was probably built at the beginning of the 17th century, although the most important additions, including the patronal residence, date back to 1893. This masseria da campo, therefore intended for the management of agricultural farms, was complementary to the “Corte Cicero” sheep farm, which was located on the same property as the Viti family from Altamura. 
• Masseria Dominante. The complex probably served as a country residence for the wealthy. The central body, the house, is located in an elevated position compared to the other artifacts. It is distinguished by the presence of a hoof, which raises it above the ground; of a central tower, used as a dovecote, and of walled openings on the right side, which probably led to underground rooms (cellars or deposits). To the right of this building there are other buildings (which today have walled entrances), used as servants' homes and as sheds for carriages and buggies. To the left of the central body there are: an enclosure with dry stone walls, a stable, two rooms used by livestock guardians, and an oven. 
• 40.75102916.64670827 Masseria Jesce, ☎ 393401671065. Built along the Appian Way, it is located on land that has been inhabited since the 1st and 2nd millennium BC. The original nucleus of today's building dates back to the 15th-16th centuries and consists of numerous subsequent extensions and adaptations. On the ground floor there were both rooms used as dwellings and other rooms used as stables and warehouses; the latter are located at different heights, due to the unevenness of the land on which the dwelling stands. Characteristics of this complex are the hanging sentry boxes, used for defensive purposes. Overall, this transformation process of the initial building led to an original and atypical structure in relation to the other farms.

The Jesce complex also consists of a valuable rock settlement with an amphitheater structure. Of particular historical and artistic interest is the crypt, located below the farm and connected to the latter, dedicated to San Michele Arcangelo, with frescoes depicting episodes from the Marian cycle. 

• 40.87648416.48562828 Masseria Marvulli, Vicinale Azzarelli road. The complex consists of a fortified farm and a chapel, built to allow peasants to attend religious services on holidays without leaving the fields. The farm has the only entrance on the south side, surmounted by a round arch and a machicolation, which was used to hit the enemies, while at the same time being sheltered. The windows are concentrated on the first floor, where the owner probably resided; while there are few on the ground floor, again for defensive reasons. Around the farm, in addition to the chapel, there are numerous jazzi (sets of enclosures with dry stone walls, built to protect livestock). The chapel is characterized by the presence of underground cavities, used as deposits. 
• Masseria Solagne. The farm was originally probably intended as a shelter for sheep, but later other buildings for residential and agricultural use were added. In the main building, the ground floor was used for dairy processing and agricultural storage; while the first floor was used as a home by the owner. The main feature of this artifact, however, is the turret (used as a dovecote), also equipped with battlements and which allowed to control the surrounding area. On the right side of the building there were artifacts intended for the shelter of livestock. On the right side, on the other hand, there were the homes of shepherds and seasonal workers; of the stables; and a haystack, that is, an area used as a straw deposit. The jazzo, on the other hand, the oldest part of this farm, was detached from this group of buildings. In fact, this farm was born as a sheep farm, along a sheep track used during transhumance: this use is testified by the presence of residences for shepherds, and rooms intended for the home of the official, who collected taxes related to the use of the farm. 
• 40.85600816.51706929 Masseria Laudati, via Ceraso-Ruvo, cs 286, ☎ 393358329649. This farm is characterized above all by the presence of a chapel with a star vault decorated with a Maltese cross with dovetail tips and the Laudati family crest (a rampant lion) in a central position. On the western side of the chapel is the main building of the complex, built in the eighteenth century, but modified in the nineteenth century, with the addition of buildings that close the courtyard, while an entrance portal with an arch was built. It derives its original design from the model of the Jesce farm. 

Events and parties

• Federicus. end of April. Annual medieval re-enactment in honor of Emperor Frederick II of Swabia, with numerous stands of typical products, historical information, evocative activities of medieval life and historical procession in costume. 
• Festival of the Claustri. 
• National Comedy Theater Festival. summer. 

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How to have fun

Shows

• 40.82486316.5512071 Mercadante Theater, Via dei Mille, 159, ☎ 390803101222. Built in 1895 to honor the memory of the composer Saverio Mercadante, it was inaugurated on September 17 of the same year and the opera "La Vestale" [70] was performed for the occasion. It closed in 1990 due to inadequacy of the new safety legislation, until 2003, when the Consortium that owns the property entered into an agreement with the private company Teatro Mercadante SRL, which at its own expense provided for the recovery, returning it to the city in 2014. 

Where to eat

The Altamura bread, with its classic tall forms (sckuanéte) it's short (uàsce), received the DOP mark in 2005. It is prepared by mixing strictly local re-milled durum wheat semolina with water, salt and natural yeast, called "mother yeast", which is obtained by fermenting a small amount of bread dough previously prepared; it is left to rest for a few hours and, respecting the traditions, it is cooked in wood-burning ovens.

THE lambasciune (lampascione in Italian), are bulbs of a wild plant typical of southern Italy, similar to onion, with a sour and intense flavor, used as a side dish for roasted meat. They are also tasted fried, cooked under ashes, boiled and seasoned.

There Altamura lentil it is a Protected Geographical Indication, it has peculiar characteristics compared to other lentils. In fact, it has an excellent consistency and a high content of iron and protein, ease of cooking and above all a unique aroma and flavor, given precisely by the land of origin and difficult to find elsewhere.

Padre Peppe is a liqueur produced for the first time by a Capuchin friar, at the beginning of the 19th century, it is today the most important, famous, widespread and commercialized Altamura liqueur. Dark brown in color, it has a very intense flavor and aroma, but of course this depends on the preparation and the ingredients.

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• 40.82833416.5545971 Hotel San Nicola, Via Luca de Samuele Cagnazzi, 29. 
• 40.82828316.5527942 B&B del Duomo, Via M. Giannelli, 22. 
• 40.82311916.5526673 Swabia Hotel, Via Matera, 2. 
• 40.82665916.5528174 Il Nido dei Falchi B&B, Corso Federico II di Svevia, 105. 

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