Piazza Salandra and the Spire of the Immaculate

The center of Nardò represents a true triumph of Baroque art, thanks to the refined Piazza Salandra and the numerous churches that testify to the undisputed religious and artistic value of a town that already became the seat of a diocese in 1413. We remember among others the Church of San Domenico, the Church of San Trifone, the Church of Sant’Antonio and the monument of the Osanna near Porta San Paolo. Piazza Salandra houses the 15th-century Spire of the Immaculate Conception, the Town Hall, the Seat. There is also a castle built between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and other monuments of absolute level are the imposing Romanesque-Gothic style Cathedral, the University Palace and the Achille Vergari Municipal Library full of twenty-one thousand volumes of scientific nature. , philosophical and theological, bequeathed to the Church in the nineteenth century by the doctor Achille Vergari and then passed to the Municipality.
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The previous comment is very comprehensive. I only add the fountain of the bull, which represents the symbol of the city (the bull) that makes the water gush in honor of an ancient legend for which a bull caused the water to gush out in a period of severe drought

A historic center enhanced and closed to car traffic and on a human scale. It deserves to be visited