Francesco Di Gregorio

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Nice place to view the port or harbour. You get to see scores of boats lined up, quite busy area. Best place to take photography of the port area.

Lovely little harbour filled with picturesque blue and red boats. Currently there's an excellent exhibition with photographs of local science and manufacturing advances which was well presented with engaging descriptions.

A beautiful place in Monopoly.
One should definitely come here for some nice clicks

Porto antico

Beautiful massive cathedral for a smaller town in Puglia Italy.  Very plain architecture on the outside, mostly yellow stone work, with a slight fancy facade.

Once inside, the cathedral is breathtakingly massive, multiple colors of marble with ornate chapels lining the side aisles.

There are stairs on both sides of the altar that allow visitors to walk up and behind the altar giving you a different view of the cathedral.

Worth a short visit if visiting Monopoli.

One of the most astonishingly beautiful cathedrals I've ever been into. Definitely the highlight of my visit in Monopoly.

This Cathedral was built from 1740 to 1770 on a site which had been previously used by man for at least 4000 years. In fact, in
the Bronze Age, some huts were built in this same place. Then, 2500 years ago, the first tombs of the Necropolis of a Messapian*
town were built. From that time this place became sacred and stayed sacred even
when the main religion changed, from Paganism to Christianity. Originally, a Pagan temple was located on the site; in 256 A.D. a
Christian church was built instead. In 1107, Bishop Romualdo started the construction of a Romanesque church. According to the tradition, the church could not come to completation because there was not enough
wood to build the roof. In 1117 the wooden beams arrived at the seaport in the form of
a raft which carried the Byzantine Icon of Our Lady with Child. In 1742 the Romanesque church was demolished because it was unsafe and too small for the increasing population. Therefore, the new Baroque church was built. it preserves the Byzantine Icon that arrived to the seaport, in 1117, on a raft. The altar was built with precious marbles that came from different quarries. The Neapolitan Andrea de Blasio made the silver frame and the silver imperial crown in 1720 and 1724. Around the chapel you can see six paintings made by Michele del Pezzo in 1798. The pictorial series called "The Virgin's Stories" includes "The Purifying of the Virgin", "The Visitation", "The Introduction to the Temple" and the ovals "The Nativity of the Virgin" and "The Nativity of Jesus". On the sides of the chapel there are two other paintings made by The Neapolitan Pietro Bardellino in 1788: "The
Iconoclast campaign" on the right (*) and "The Arrival at the Seaport" on the left. The two statues on the sides of the altar represent the Archangel Michael and St. Joseph; they were made in 1752 by Giuseppe Sammartino, better known for his "Veiled Christ" (Sansevero Chapel, Naples). The little organ was built in 1762 by Pietro de Simone (junior).

Cattedrale Maria Santissima della Madia

Nice castle at the entrance of the port. Free admission

It's a nice place to visit. The castle it self is not very spectacular but somehow fit to the surrounding

Castello Carlo V

Sicuramente uno dei borghi più famosi e caratteristici della zona e che, arroccato su una scogliera calcarea, offre degli scorci suggestivi e spruzza romanticismo da tutti i pori. Ovviamente la sua bellezza ha fatto si che la "perla dell'adriatico", sia...

Polignano a Mare, nel blu dipinto di blu

Verso la fine del 1400 i Conti di Conversano incaricarono i contadini di colonizzare la zona costruendo soltanto case precarie (i trulli), che avrebbero potuto essere facilmente demolite nel caso in cui avesse avuto luogo un’ispezione. Oggi la città dei...

Una notte nei Trulli

Le Grotte di Castellana sono un posto incantevole, 3km che ti lasciano senza fiato, camminando tra enormi stalattiti ed ammirando un Grand Canyon sotterraneo nelle Murge sud orientali, a 330 m s.l.m. sull’altopiano calcareo formatosi nel Cretaceo...

Grotte di Castellana, il Grand Canyon sotterraneo

Ad 1 ora di auto da Alberobello, non potevamo non raggiungere Matera, in Basilicata.
Un tempo "vergogna nazionale" ed oggi capitale europea della cultura, Matera è un luogo suggestivo come pochi al mondo, protagonista del cinema Hollywodiano svariate...

Matera: Hollywood, UNESCO e cibo spettacolare

Bari è stata il nostro punto di partenza in quanto è comodamente servita da un aeroporto in cui abbiamo potuto anche noleggiare un'auto, scelta migliore, a nostro avviso, per girarsi la puglia in libertà. 
Una volta presa l'auto abbiamo fatto un giro a...

Arrivo a Bari

Sempre in zona "Terre di Bari", abbiamo deciso di visitare anche Monopoli (per fortuna). 
Dopo aver parcheggiato comodamente in uno dei parcheggi pubblici, ci siamo incamminati verso il suo caratteristico centro storico, alto-medievale, circondato da...

Monopoli, di passaggio

Ogni fuga romantica che si rispetti ha bisogno di una scenografia all’altezza ed una atmosfera speciale. I luoghi di questi viaggio ci hanno regalato tutto questo e molto più: cibo buonissimo e storia, tanta storia, che ti entra prepotentemente nella...

Puglia and Basilicata

Fuga d'amore in Puglia e Basilicata

Old Port

Cathedral of the Most Holy Mary of Madia

Charles V Castle

Certainly one of the most famous and characteristic villages in the area, perched on a limestone cliff, it offers picturesque views and exudes romance from every pore. Its beauty has clearly made it the "pearl of the Adriatic"...

Polignano a Mare, in the blue painted blue

Toward the end of the 15th century, the Counts of Conversano commissioned farmers to colonize the area, building only makeshift homes (trulli), which could easily be demolished in the event of an inspection. Today, the city of...

A night in the Trulli

The Castellana Caves are an enchanting place, 3km of breathtaking scenery, as you walk among enormous stalactites and admire an underground Grand Canyon in the southeastern Murge, 330m above sea level on a limestone plateau formed during the Cretaceous period.

Castellana Caves, the underground Grand Canyon

Just an hour's drive from Alberobello, we couldn't miss Matera, in Basilicata.
Once a "national shame" and now a European Capital of Culture, Matera is a captivating place unlike any other in the world, a protagonist in Hollywood films and many...

Matera: Hollywood, UNESCO, and spectacular food

Bari was our starting point as it's conveniently located near an airport where we could also rent a car, the best option, in our opinion, for exploring Puglia at our own pace.
Once we'd picked up the car, we took a tour of...

Arrival in Bari

Still in the "Terre di Bari" area, we decided to visit Monopoli (luckily).
After conveniently parking in one of the public parking lots, we headed towards its characteristic, early medieval historic center, surrounded by...

Monopoli, passing through

Every romantic getaway deserves a worthy setting and a special atmosphere. The places on this trip gave us all this and more: delicious food and history, so much history, that powerfully enters your mind...

Monopoli, passing through

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