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Apulia - Taranto - A Town of the Sea www.comune.taranto.it The symbol of Taranto is the great Rotating Bridge. It connects the new town to the island where the old town is, over the canal that links Mar Grande and Mar Piccolo. The bridge is dedicated to St. Francis from Paola; it was built in 1958 to replace a wooden bridge dating back to 1886. The navigable canal was digged in 1481 to protect the town from Turkish attack. The Rotating Bridge is periodically opened to let military ships go through. From the sea, the old town looks enchanting, especially at night, when street lights emphasize the contour of the so-called "palazzata", that is the old palazzos, where noble families and the clergy once used to live. Basilicata - Matera - The town of "Sassi" www.sassidimatera.it The "Sassi" of Matera is the first site all over the world that has been declared "Cultural Landscape" and has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site since 1993. This ancient town resembles a "giant sculpture", made of tangled alleys and staircases, cave dwellings and elegant palazzos, arches and balconies, gardens and wide terraces, all dug into the rocks of a deep gorge, named "Gravina" after the stream that flows on the canyon floor. Apulia - Bari and its surroundings www.comune.bari.it - www.comune.polignanoamare.ba.it Traditionally, Bari has always been a commercial and maritime town. In the Dark Ages, commerce already flourished, especially with the East. Today the town hosts an important trade fair, namely Fiera del Levante, which has been organised in September every year since 1930. Perched on sheer cliffs above the Adriatic Sea, over an area of about 63 square kms and of almost triangular shape, Polignano a Mare is a small village, a place where the earth meets the sea. For centuries it has been a crossroads of different cultures: here, Arabs, Byzantines, Spaniards and Normans have left indelible traces of their civilisations. Apulia - Lecce www.comune.lecce.it Most of the buildings and churches in town date back to XVII century and were built in a distinctive fine architectural style that can be found nowhere else in the world and is known as "Barocco Leccese". This particular kind of Baroque architecture is characterised by the neat and elegant forms of the Renaissance style and rich decoration, such as banisters, traceries, tortile columns, flower and fruits motifs, deriving from the peasant culture and the classical world. They are carved out of the characteristic "pietra leccese", a light and easily worked limestone that skillful carvers turned into real masterpieces, which look like finely crafted filigree jewelry or pieces of embroidery. |