| Bari | ||
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| State | Italy | |
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| Region | Puglia | |
| Altitude | 5 m a.s.l. | |
| Surface | 116.20 km² | |
| Inhabitants | 320.676 (2008) | |
| Name inhabitants | Baresi | |
| Prefix tel | 39 080 | |
| POSTAL CODE | 70121–70132 | |
| Patron | St. Nicholas | |
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Bari is an Italian town, the capital of the province of the same name and of the region Puglia.
To know
It is the ninth Italian municipality by population, third of the twelve o'clock after Naples is Palermo and first in the region. It is the heart of a metropolitan area of approximately 1,250,000 inhabitants.
Geographical notes
The city overlooks the Adriatic Sea for a length of about 40 km, among the municipalities of Giovinazzo, north, e Mola di Bari, South. It extends in a latitudinal sense for about 13 km, starting from the port area to the extreme district of Loseto in the south-west.
How to orient yourself
Bari center: full screen map.The historic part of the city of Bari, called Bari Vecchia by its inhabitants, is included within the ancient walls, and is so called, starting from the nineteenth century, as opposed to the new city (whose construction began in 1813 under the reign of Joachim Murat). Bari Vecchia is located on the peninsula enclosed between the two ports of Bari (the old port and the new port), bordered to the south by Corso Vittorio Emanuele, while the new city extends between the railway and the coast, with orthogonal grid roads. Together they form today's urban center of the city of Bari and are gathered in the IX district called the Murat district, which is the pulsating center of the Apulian capital city.
How to get
By plane
- 1 Bari-Palese Airport (IATA: BRI) (Located north-west of the center, at a distance of about 8 km, in the territory of Palese.). L'Bari-Palese airport bears the official name of Karol Wojtyla. Connections with the center are made by line 16 of theAmtab which ends in Piazza Moro (central station), from shuttle of the Autoservizi Tempesta group and the underground station FM2 Airport.
The companies that operated domestic flights in 2009 are listed below:
- TAP: Rome-Fiumicino, Bologna, Turin, Milan-Linate, Venice
- Ryanair - Alghero, Bergamo-Orio al Serio, Bologna, Pisa, Turin
- Alitalia: Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
- EasyJet: Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino
- Lufthansa Italy: Milan-Malpensa.
By car
Bari can be reached via the A14 Adriatic motorway Bologna-Taranto.
Ferries periodically connect Bari to the Balkan and Greek coasts, especially during the summer season.
On the train
Bari is reached by Trenitalia Le Frecce trains, at the Bari Centrale station in Piazza Moro, which coincides with the bus terminus.
How to get around
The city of Bari is served by numerous railway stations the main of which is the Bari Centrale station located in Aldo Moro square. The Appulo Lucane Railways and the Ferrotramviaria they have their own distinct railway stations.
L'AMTAB manages the services of urban public transport Street bus (in the past there were connections by means of trolley buses, in different areas of the city it is still possible to observe the network of wires).
Underground
In the urban area, railway services are organized on six lines converging at the Bari Centrale station, managed by four different operators, which make up the service railway metropolitan from Bari.
Nord Barese Railways
4 lines, with terminus in Piazza Aldo Moro in the station Bari North, (managed by the Ferrotramviaria company) connect the city center with the northern sector of the Bari suburbs, the Bari-Palese airport and the municipalities of Bitonto, Corato, Terlizzi, Ruvo di Puglia, Andria is Barletta.
- FR1 Regional Railway 1 Bari-Barletta (via Palese Macchie)
- FM1 Metropolitan Railway 1 Bari-San Paolo
- FR2 Regional Rail 2 Bari-Barletta (via Airport)
- FM2 Metropolitan Railway 2 Bari-Airport-Bitonto
Bus
The AMTAB network is made up of 34 urban lines, 2 circulars and 5 shuttles Park & Ride that connect the parking areas to the city center.The minimum fare, at a cost of € 1.20 (June 2019), allows you to travel for 75 minutes on all buses in the network except for special service lines (for example lines engaged during events at there Fiera del Levante or sporting events at the San Nicola stadium require special fare tickets) The bus / bus service does not enjoy a very good reputation as the cars are often dirty, crowded or worn and the journeys are not punctual, however the AMTAB offers connections more frequent is capillaries the rest of the means therefore remain the most used.
Park & Ride service
In the city there are 5 park & ride managed by AMTAB, which with 1 € (June 2019) ticket allow you to park and use the shuttle bus service, at a possible cost of 0.30 € (June 2019) in the case of passengers other than the driver of the parked car.
What see
Today's urban center consists of the new city (founded in 1813 by Gioacchino Murat) which extends between the railway and the coast with orthogonal grid roads, and the old city (the so-called barivecchia) between the new and old ports, closed to the east by the walls that separate it from the waterfront, with a medieval urban layout.
There are notable Romanesque monuments in ancient Bari, including the basilica of San Nicola (XII century), a masterpiece of Apulian Romanesque architecture. There Cathedral of San Sabino (1170-1178), in whose archives a famous one is preserved Exultet (illuminated manuscript) prior to 1025 and containing the liturgy of Holy Saturday.
Interesting from the architectural point of view Church of San Gregorio (11th century-12th century). Famous the Norman-Swabian castle built by Frederick II of Swabia (at least the main nucleus) on the site of previous Norman and Byzantine fortifications.Enlarged in the 16th century, when it became the home of Isabella of Aragon, in the 19th century the castle was first used as a prison and later as a barracks .
In the new city you will find the archaeological Museum (with numerous ceramics) and, on seafront Nazario Sauro, the Provincial Picture Gallery. Not far from the seafront there is also the Petruzzelli Theater, built between 1898 and 1903, recently reopened to the public after a long renovation following the fire that seriously damaged it in 1991.
Two museums in Bari must be highlighted: 1. The Archaeological Museum with vases and bronze works from the Puglia region. The Archaeological Museum is located in the University Building. 2. The Provincial Pinacoteca Museum, where paintings and works of art from the 11th to the 20th century are exhibited. The paintings are exhibited in the provincial building. The basilica of St. Nicholas of the Norman church was built in the twelfth century. Especially the externally mounted portals with their beautiful figures are worth seeing. Countless pilgrims visit every year the relics of Saint Nicholas the Holy, which are housed in the crypt in Bari. In the northwest of the capital of Puglia there is the great castle Castel del Monte, which was built in the 12th century under Friedrich II.
Religious architecture
The historic center of Bari is full of small and large churches.
The most majestic are undoubtedly there Cathedral of San Sabino and the Basilica of San Nicola. However, there are many minor churches: Church of Sant'Anna, Church of Sant'Antonio abate, the Church of Sant'Agostino rebuilt in 1508 by the Milanese colony, Church of San Bartolomeo, Church of Santa Chiara, Church of San Domenico, Church of San Francesco alla Scarpa, Church of Santa Pelagia, Church of San Gaetano, Church of the Gesù, Church of San Giacomo, the fourteenth century Church of San Giovanni Crisostomo (parish church of the Greek rite), Church of San Giuseppe, Church of San Gregorio where the statue of St. Nicholas remains throughout the year, transferred to its basilica only on feast days, Church of San Luca, Church of San Marco dei Veneziani]], Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Church of Santa Maria del Buon Consiglio, Church of Santa Maria del Monte Carmelo, Church of San Martino, Church of San Michele, Church of Sant'Onofrio, Church of Santa Scolastica, Church of San Sebastiano, Church of Santa Teresa delle Donne, the baroque Church of Santa Teresa dei Maschi, Church of SS. Trinity of the Medici, Vallisa Church, Chapel of San Nicola al Porto and, with a Greek cross contracted, the Church of San Giorgio degli Armeni.
There are eight disappeared or deconsecrated churches: "San Benedetto", "San Demetrio", "San Eustrazio", "San Tommaso Apostolo", "San Pietro de Sergio Protospathario", "San Nicola de ipsa Pusterula", "San Giovanni Evangelista" , "San Apollinare".
- 1 Cathedral of San Sabino, Piazza San Nicola. Among the most shining examples of the Apulian Romanesque, it was built starting from 1087 to house the relics of St. Nicholas, which some sailors from Bari had moved from Myra on the orders of the Normans. It was visited by Pope Urban II in 1089 to place the relics of Nicholas, and in 1098 for the II Council of Bari. Today it is an important ecumenical center, a pilgrimage destination for Orthodox Christians especially from Russia who founded a large and active community here. . To the severe salient façade, tripartite and flanked by two bell towers, there is a luminous interior with a Latin cross commissa, in which the ciborium and the episcopal chair of the abbot Elia and the monument to the queen of Poland Bona Sforza stand out.
- 2 Church of San Nicola, Largo San Sabino. The Cathedral of San Sabino was built in the first half of the 11th century and rebuilt in the last decades of the 12th century, following the destruction of the city by William the Malo in 1156. The cathedral is one of the most majestic creations of Romanesque architecture - Apulian whose characterizing elements are found in the tripartite facade with pilasters, in the hexaphorate of the left side, in the heads of the transept. The interior, with a Latin cross plan with three naves, has a pulpit and a ciborium recomposed with original fragments from the 11th and 13th centuries and houses the relics of San Sabino and Santa Colomba, the icon of the Madonna Odegitria and the scroll of the Exultet, prior to 1050.
- Church of Santa Chiara, Via Santa Chiara. The church stands on the site of the medieval church of Santa Maria degli Alemanni or Santa Maria Theotonicorum. In 1429 it passed to the Poor Clares and in 1539 it underwent a series of renovations. At the beginning of the 18th century it was rebuilt in a Baroque style.
Civil architecture
- 3 Castle, Piazza Federico II of Swabia. The Norman-Swabian Castle was built around 1131 by the will of Roger the Norman. In 1156 William I of Sicily almost completely destroyed it and Guido il Vasto, by the will of Frederick II of Swabia, took care of its reconstruction. The mighty and grandiose castle consists of two distinct parts: the first including the keep, of Byzantine-Norman origin and transformed by Frederick II between 1233 and 1240, has a trapezoidal plan with two of the four original towers; the second which incorporates the escarpment bulwarks with angular lance towers on the moat which were added in the sixteenth century on the three sides on the land side. The north side, the maritime one, preserves the ogival portal (now walled up) and the graceful mullioned windows of the thirteenth-century building.
The castle is accessed from the south side, crossing the bridge over the moat and entering the courtyard between the sixteenth-century bulwarks and the Swabian keep, on whose towers and curtains built in dark stone drafts, you can see several single-lancet windows. On the west side a carved Gothic portal leads into an atrium on columns with cross vaults, from which one passes into the inner courtyard, quadrilateral, of Renaissance layout, which has been greatly remodeled. In this interior, on the left in an earthly hall there is the plaster cast collection inside which there are numerous casts depicting the most interesting architectural and decorative sculptures of the Romanesque monuments of Puglia. Next to it, an interesting room with a ribbed barrel vault with pointed arches, used as an archive. On the upper floor, on the southern side of the castle, there are various rooms where the Superintendence of the Galleries is located. The north side houses the restored paintings in two large rooms on the upper floor. 
- 4 Fort of Sant'Antonio, Lungomare Imperatore Augusto. The Fort of Sant'Antonio abate it was erected for defensive purposes. The date of construction is not ascertained; however some sources mention the fort starting from the fourteenth century. Destroyed by the people of Bari in 1463, it was rebuilt in the 16th century at the behest of Isabella of Aragon (1470-1524). A lovely wooden statue of the saint to whom the building is dedicated is located in a chapel under the entrance hall. The only day the chapel can be visited is January 17, the day it is opened to celebrate religious ceremonies. In the chapel there is also a noteworthy painting by an unknown artist depicting Saint Anthony the Abbot. Its spaces are currently used for cultural events, often very interesting.
- 5 Fizzarotti Palace, C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 193. radically expanded in the years 1905-1907 by Ettore Bernich and Augusto Corradini, it looks like an imposing building in an eclectic style. Many of the Apulian Romanesque styles are merged with different architectural traditions. The façade, consisting of three floors in Venetian style on which opens a light colonnaded gallery, is a tribute to the liberation of the city occupied by the Saracens by the Serenissima in 1002. The interiors, accessible through a suggestive marble entrance hall, host various decorations that recall the Frederick era, allegories of the economic activities of Puglia and esoteric symbols. Today the building is used for residential use, but it also houses a multifunctional center with exhibition rooms.
- 6 Atti Palace, corso Cavour 24 corner Via Cognetti. Of the private residence, which rises along the prestigious Corso Cavour, a fundamental road axis that separates the original Murat district from the seafront, the abundance of decorations catches the eye: flower garlands, geometric motifs, even an imposing sculptural group on the noble loggia above the main door. The engineer Ettore Patruno who oversaw the project in 1915 thus intended to celebrate the triumph of the eclectic style in vogue in those years.
- 7 Hotel Cineteatro Oriente, Cavour course (near the Atti palace). Next to Palazzo Atti, between 1918 and 1928 the engineer Orazio Santalucia designed and directed the construction of a building intended for hotel accommodation and public entertainment, adopting a concrete frame under an eclectic decoration. The floors with 15-meter beams still make it a remarkable example of that innovative technique for the time.
- Stoppelli Palace, Corso Cavour. Palazzo Stoppelli was built in 1919 with commercial and residential purposes. It has the same stylistic features of the Cineteatro Oriente hotel, with which it shared the designer and client.
- Colonna Palace. The contrast between the rustication of the base and the pastel shades of the upper floors characterizes the large facade of the Colonna palace, on the seafront Araldo di Crollalanza. The tower equipped with a clock lightens the upper profile of the building, which was built by the architect Vincenzo Bavaro in 1925 to be used for residential and commercial purposes.
- Fione-Saponaro Palace, eastern seafront. Erected in 1925 near the seafront Nazario Sauro based on a project by Giovanni Logroscino, this private residence is characterized by a classical imprint, in which, however, elements of eclecticism are not lacking. The five floors of the two-tone facade are divided by pilasters surmounted by Corinthian capitals. The parapets of the balconies are masonry columns on the main floor and wrought iron links with floral motifs on the other floors.
- Dioguardi-Durante Palace. Built in 1925 by the architect Saverio Dioguardi for the purpose of a private residence, the Dioguardi-Durante palace is located in a corner at Piazza Eroi del Mare. All five floors that make up the façade with soft curved lines in an eclectic style are characterized by the projecting balconies and large windows facing the Adriatic.
- Kursaal Santalucia. Built in 1924 by Eng. Orazio Santalucia as a private residence, this building near the sea was soon used by the designer, who was also its owner, as a projection room. The formal solutions of the facade as well as the interiors are marked by the late Art Nouveau, although the building is respectful of the compact volumes typical of the Murat district. In recent years, Paolo Portoghesi has brought the Kursaal back to its former glory, preserving its original interior decorations.
- 8 Mincuzzi warehouse building, via Sparano (at the corner between via Sparano is via Putignani). In the heart of the Murat district, Aldo Forcignanò elaborated in 1923 a spectacular project with a corner solution for the building, which still maintains clear commercial purposes. The façade is a jumble of columns, rusticated pilasters, Ionic capitals and masks between which the many windows develop. The interiors, rich in Liberty decorations, are dominated by a monumental staircase and illuminated by the glass dome that overlooks the building. Also owned by the Mincuzzi family, the building has been rented to the mega store of the Benetton brand since 2002.
- Pollice Palace. The architect Sabino Calderazzi adopted rationalist solutions for the facade of this private residence located on the corner in the heart of the Murat district. The size of the building, of six floors, and the use of rounded balconies made it a prominent element in the urban landscape at the time of construction (1930s).
- Noli Palace. The two-tone facade, dominant in white at the base and ocher at the upper volumes, characterizes this private residence, built in the years 1932-1939 in via Signorile on a project by the same owner. The massive bulk of the building is softened by the sloping profile of the attic floor.
- Hotel of Nations. Symbolically placed on the seafront looking towards the eastern coast of the Adriatic, the white bulk of the hotel built in 1932, in the years following the inauguration of the Fiera del Levante, is characterized by a planimetric and volumetric solution centered on angular symmetry, although the building has a development only in one direction. These are the most successful creations of the architect Alberto Calza Bini.
Public buildings of the fascist era
- 9 Palace of the Apulian Aqueduct, Via Salvatore Cognetti, 36.
visit inside: Sat-Sun 10: 00-12: 00 (by reservation only through the website). In 1924 the Pugliese Aqueduct Authority provided itself with a central office, entrusting Cesare Vitantonio Brunetti with a building in Via Cognetti, a short distance from the sea. The imposing white ashlar facade that runs around the four sides of the building gives the impregnable appearance of a fortress. However, once you have crossed the entrance, you can admire the splendid interiors resulting in every detail from the liberty fantasy of Duilio Cambellotti: the dominant theme is that of water, which is proposed in the large frescoes in the Sala del Consiglio, in the floors, in the inlays. in wood and mother of pearl of the more than 140 original pieces of furniture. - 10 Palace of the Province of Bari, Nazario Sauro waterfront. As part of the larger monumental transformation project of Nazario Sauro waterfront to the south of the city, the Provincial Administration in 1930 commissioned the design of its definitive headquarters, which was attended by the most brilliant architects of the city coordinated by Luigi Baffa. The building, completed in 1936, is characterized by the eclecticism that recalls the neo-medieval civil architecture. At the center of the ashlar base there are five large round arches that give access to a two-tone marble portico. Beyond the upper floors, a tower with a clock stands out in an asymmetrical position, an allusion to the bell tower of the Cathedral, also visible from the Nazario Sauro waterfront. Seriously damaged during the Second World War, today the building houses the offices and the council chamber of the Provincial Administration, the Provincial Art Gallery of Bari and the Archive. On the ground floor there is also a beautiful colonnaded portico, occasionally home to temporary exhibitions, dominated by two huge statues dating back to the postwar period.
- 11 Chiaffredo Bergia Barracks. Also dating back to the thirties, the building is the seat of the General Command of the Carabinieri of the Puglia Region. The imposing facade of the building on the Nazario Sauro waterfront, the work of Cesare Bazzani, consists of three distinct buildings connected by a continuous stone base, and recalls military architecture in numerous elements.
- Command Building of the III Air Region. In 1932 the Ministry of Air Force commissioned Saverio Dioguardi and Aldo Forcignanò to build the building intended to house the Command of the "Third Air Region". The building occupies three sides of a block and opposes the façade to the sea, on which the long series of frameless windows is interrupted in the center by four pillars in giant order that rise above the rest of the façade and simulate the The entrances are actually in an angular position, camouflaged by the arcades on which two towering towers rise.
- Barracks of the Voluntary National Security Militia. : The building was built on the Vittorio Veneto waterfront, north of Barivecchia, between 1933 and 1937 based on a project by the architect from Bari Saverio Dioguardi. The long and symmetrical façade, in the center of which a small tower rises, still maintains the architectural style of the Fascist era. Built as a barracks for the voluntary militia for national security, it currently houses a military command.
- 12 Liceo Ginnasio Orazio Flacco. Built in the Fascist era on a project by Concezio Petrucci, the rationalist lines were enslaved to the celebration of Mussolini, starting with the internal courtyard plan which was brilliantly made in the shape of an M.
- 13 Monumental entrance to the Fiera del Levante, Piazzale Vittorio Emanuele III. Among the various architectural creations of the city's exhibition center, all made in view of the Fiera del Levante organization, the monumental entrance still preserves the original features of the 1929 project by Augusto Corradini. It is an imposing symmetrical construction: two crenellated towers unusually equipped with mullioned windows and three-mullioned windows, enclose a large access portal that echoes a triumphal arch of the classical tradition. The view on the Starita seafront is significant of the original Mediterranean vocation of the sample.
- 14 Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi. The ministerial architect Roberto Narducci in 1931 chose rationalist lines for the building, characterized by an angular staircase that leads to a curved portico, mirroring that of the facing sidewalk. The entrance is dominated by a skylight dome that illuminates a large circular room.
- Archaeological Museum of Santa Scolastica.
visit inside: Sat-Sun 10: 00-12: 00 (by reservation only through the website). In 1924 the Pugliese Aqueduct Authority provided itself with a central office, entrusting Cesare Vitantonio Brunetti with a building in Via Cognetti, a short distance from the sea. The imposing white ashlar facade that runs around the four sides of the building gives the impregnable appearance of a fortress. However, once you have crossed the entrance, you can admire the splendid interiors resulting in every detail from the liberty fantasy of Duilio Cambellotti: the dominant theme is that of water, which is proposed in the large frescoes in the Sala del Consiglio, in the floors, in the inlays. in wood and mother of pearl of the more than 140 original pieces of furniture.Events and parties
- 2 Fiera del Levante (Fire du Levande in the Bari dialect), Lungomare Starita, 4, ☎ 39 080 536 61 11, @[email protected].
admission authorized only if you have a ticket, which costs € 3; however, from 19:30 to 21:00 admission is free for everyone. Mon-Fri 10: 00-21: 00. This great fair reached its 80th edition in 2016, it is one of the main Italian and Mediterranean fairs. The fair always takes place in the Marconi-San Girolamo-Fesca district. During the year, the exhibition center hosts about thirty international events including exhibitions, congresses and events. The main event is the "Campionaria di Settembre". The main declared objective of the fair is the internationalization of the southern economy, counting on a market made up of the regions of southern Italy, southeastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa. Over the years, some interesting initiatives related to the fair have also arisen; for example, admission - already quite cheap in itself - becomes free if you arrive at the exhibition center by bicycle, rather than using public transport. For this purpose, the municipality has made public bicycles available for some years, which can be rented in different points of the city in cooperation with some associations that work for a more bike-friendly Bari. Tickets, necessary for entry to the fair, can be purchased at the entrance or through the website Vivaticket.
admission authorized only if you have a ticket, which costs € 3; however, from 19:30 to 21:00 admission is free for everyone. What to do
Shopping
- 1 Santacroce stationery, Via Andrea da Bari, 30-32, ☎ 39 080 523 2228, @[email protected]. Items for parties and various holidays. Different types of cards and boxes. Other miscellaneous items.
How to have fun
Where to eat
Average prices
- 1 La Parilla De Juan, Mercantile Square, 21, ☎ 39 080 524 5692. Mexican food.
Where stay
Moderate prices
- 1 Olive Tree Hostel, Via Scipione Crisanzio, 90. Hostel.
Safety
How to keep in touch
Around
It is possible to discover the wonders of the ancient village, taking advantage of the tourist services offered by Velo Service, such as excursions by bicycle or by bike - rickshaw, respecting the urban context and eco-sustainability.
