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What To See In Bari
“If Paris had the sea, it would be a small Bari”, says a well-known Barese proverb. This, although objectively difficult to affirm, is nonetheless indicative of the love and consideration that the people of Bari have for their city. In the past considered a city with a purely commercial vocation and therefore outside the tourist circuits, in recent years Bari has undergone a decisive restyling in terms of image which has transformed it in a short time into one of the most sparkling and lively cities in Southern Italy.
The Apulian capital, with a population of about 350,000 inhabitants and a very large metropolitan area, holds a mine of unexpected treasures. Starting from the elegant Murattian district, the suggestive seafront, and ending with the splendid Borgo Antico with its unmistakable medieval churches and Frederick's castle. Not to mention the events of all kinds that are organized here, primarily the Fiera del Levante. And we could open a whole separate chapter on Bari cuisine...
In short, Bari will conquer you with its proudly maritime beauty and its many flagships: gastronomy, nightlife, art and folklore.
THE MURATTIAN QUARTER
The Murattiano district extends between the railway and the coast with orthogonal reticular streets and together with the Old Town constitutes today's urban center of the city. Its name and its creation are due to Gioacchino Murat, the French general who succeeded Napoleon Bonaparte. The urbanization, attentive to the optimization of the city spaces, develops in an orthogonal grid and among the streets of the city the artistic and cultural brilliance of the "belle époque" seems to be revived. After the historic center, this is the oldest part of Bari, built starting in 1813 and designed as a perfect chessboard.
A neighborhood characterized by private buildings and important buildings such as the university, which has now become the seat of the university, in which ecclesiastical buildings are scarce, while much space has instead been given to theatres, among which the most important are the Piccinini theater (1840- 1850), the Petruzzelli theater (1898-1903) and the Margherita theater (1912-1914), one of the most beautiful and evocative overlooking the sea. A district with a sparkling heart, represented by Via Sparano, full of shop windows, show rooms, dedicated to the most exclusive shopping, worthily represented by the magnificent Palazzo Mincuzzi, which has become the symbol of Bari as a commercial city.
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THE PROMENADE
The Bari seafront, as well as being one of the most characteristic places in the city, is also considered among the most beautiful in Italy and among the longest in Europe. The Lungomare was inaugurated in 1927 in the Fascist era and is made up of a row of black cast iron lampposts (197 to be exact) which over the years have become true symbols of the city. The promenade starts from the boundary wall of the port of Bari and reaches the famous city beach Pane e Pomodoro, for a length of about 3 km.
Every day there are thousands of tourists and people from Bari who walk along the Bari waterfront, some for work, some for jogging, some to enjoy a romantic moment and admire a series of late Liberty-style buildings at a glance, and at the same time to breathe the atmosphere of Bari, between green parks and an incomparable panorama of the Adriatic. but also those who simply want to stop on its benches to immortalize the beauty of the sea with the nuances of its sunsets reflected in the water.
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OLD TOWN
A maze of white alleys close to the sea, until recently little traveled by tourists due to local petty crime, today represents the realm of the "Bari nightlife" thanks also to the boom of restaurants and bars open in these evocative alleys. It is the extraordinary historic center of Bari, a district with an ancient history and current everyday life. A place that truly deserves to be rediscovered and experienced. The Borgo Antico or rather "Bari Vecchia", as the people of Bari say, is the oldest part of the city of Bari, within the ancient walls, so called, starting from the 19th 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 and closed to the east by the walls that separate it from the seafront, and is characterized by a typically medieval. The historic centre, which stands on a small peninsula where the first prehistoric settlements originally developed, represents the most folkloric part of Bari, still linked to ancient traditions: it appears to be the repository of memories and customs which in the modern city are increasingly losing.
The richness of the old city of Bari, the people who live there and the scents that you breathe have made it possible to erase from memory the fear that old Bari was dangerous, re-evaluating the oldest part of the Apulian capital as a hub of cultural and experiential activities for tourists and Not. In addition to the many churches that the historic center of Bari boasts (primarily the basilica of San Nicola and the cathedral of San Sabino), it also offers a wonderful medieval castle, the longest seafront in Italy and lots and lots of good food.
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