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The Balsignano Monumental Complex is an ancient fortified medieval settlement. During your visit, you can visit this evocative archaeological and historical site, comprising a castle with double walls and two important churches: the Church of Santa Maria (with frescoes) and the Church of San Felice, the latter considered a masterpiece of Apulian Romanesque art with Byzantine influences. The complex dates back to the 10th-11th centuries and underwent various historical phases until its abandonment in the 16th century.

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Bitetto ist known for the presence of the remains of Blessed Giacomo , a lay friar who died in the odor of sanctity, whose body has remained intact over the centuries. The main monument of the town, the church of San Michele Arcangelo is one of the purest examples of Apulian Romanesque . The epigraph near the portal reveals that the facade was built in 1335 by Mastro Lillo da Barletta on commission from Bishop Bonocore, who wanted to rebuild the city temple on the site of an older cathedral. Bitetto had in fact been a diocesan seat since the 11th century . Oriented according to ancient custom with the presbytery to the east, the church has a severe façade divided into three parts by pilasters and equipped with a large archivolted rose window . Of the three portals, the central one is characterized by a rich sculptural apparatus: two stone lions, crouched on mighty corbels, support columns with capitals with vegetal motifs that support a lunette with bas-reliefs of Christ and the twelve Apostles. The external jambs instead present scenes from the New Testament. The interior, which was heavily plastered in the eighteenth century and was restored to its original Romanesque style in 1959 , is divided into three naves by triple-order wall partitions, where the double-arched arches are surmounted by false matronei and higher up by single-lancet windows. The transept has three apses according to the stylistic features of Apulian Romanesque. The fourteenth-century body is flanked on both sides by two eighteenth-century chapels, that of Purgatory (on the left) and that of the Blessed Sacrament (on the right). Outside, the bell tower, also dating back to the eighteenth century, rests on the Romanesque façade with a typical gabled structure.

Starting from the 3rd century BC, with the expansion of Rome, rustic villas and masses were built among the cultivated fields, while municipalities were formed along three main roads: from Venosa , through the Murge, to Taranto; from Canosa , through Ruvo , Bitonto , Ceglie , Norba , to Egnazia ; from Ofanto , along the Adriatic coast, to Brindisi and Otranto . At the time of Horace (68-8 BC), Bitetto did not yet exist. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the defeat of the Goths and Lombards , Puglia was reconquered by the Byzantine Empire . During this period, the region bore a heavy tax burden, but was enriched from a cultural point of view: the artistic heritage of the time, in fact, was deeply influenced by the new Byzantine elements. In those years Bitetto began to unify, forming a single village whose population was growing. It gathered around a monastery established by the Basilian monks in the San Marco district, between Bitetto and Bitritto . Monastery of this type were built at the behest of the Byzantines: in this way, in fact, they were able to exercise greater control over the territory and the population, exploiting the religious and political influence of the monks on the peasant families, enslaved by the gasindi to clear the land. The land of Bari , under Lombard pressure , became part of Langobardia Minor , then of the Duchy of Benevento . In this period Bitetto was included in the territory of the city of Bari, as evidenced by a very ancient document, dating back to 1021, which is found in the archive of San Nicola di Bari. During the 11th century Bitetto was elevated to the rank of bishop's seat , as in 1089 the papal bull Quia nostris temporibus of Pope Urban II cited it as a suffragan of Bari. Local notarial registers from the 14th and 15th centuries attest to the existence of a thriving Jewish community devoted to the trade of fabrics and real estate and the rental of animals. The 15th century saw the progressive worsening of the living conditions of the population of Bitetto: between the end of the 15th and the beginning of the 16th century the city was hit by the plague, killing, according to the records of the time, 3,249 inhabitants. The survivors abandoned their lodgings outside the city walls; the area outside the historic centre would not be repopulated until the early 19th century .

The church of San Michele Arcangelo is the cathedral of Bitetto. It was built in the 11th century and is in the Apulian Romanesque style

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Imposing and majestic, the Bitetto Cathedral of San Michele Arcangelo was built in 1335 by Master Lillo da Barletta. The exterior is breathtaking. In fact, the central portal features two stone lions, capitals with plant motifs, and a lunette with bas-reliefs of Christ and the Twelve Apostles. The exterior jambs feature scenes from the New Testament. Definitely breathtaking! At the center of the façade is a large stone rose window in Romanesque style. Next to the church façade, also in Apulian Romanesque style, stands the 18th-century bell tower.

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The layout of the Bitetto cathedral is defined by the traditional Latin cross oriented basilica plan with an extradosal transept with respect to the long sides and intrados apses. The façade suggests the internal tripartite division: the elevation development, the slope of the salient points, the location of the three access portals, however declined according to already Gothic styles, imitate the Cathedral of Bitonto with philological observance. The façade is modeled on this model: divided into salient parts by pilasters, it is divided into two registers. If the morphology of the façade emulates the nearby Romanesque iconographic source, the portals are configured as precious manifestations of the French Gothic culture, radiated in Puglia through the presence of the Angevins.

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