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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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The gate owes its name to the underground cisterns used to collect rainwater. For a long time it was one of the main accesses to the old, fortified city, where most of the population lived until the early 18th century.

Gateway to the village of Bitetto

Rural church built by faithful, with dedication to the Holy Virgin, dated in 1759, the year of the encyclical Cum Primum published by the Pope Clement XIII in which the Pontiff severely admonishes all those Ecclesiastics who, eager for easy earnings, engage in commerce and thus degrade the dignity of their condition as clerics or priests. #babaciclistaurbano #historiaetfabulis #balsignano

From here the main road artery of the medieval city opens, namely via Porta Piscina, which connects said urban access to the Cathedral. The toponyms of the door and of the homonymous street derive from the existence in the immediate suburb outside of Moenia of some underground cisterns, used for the collection of rainwater. The city gate has the high plinth made with Trani stone ashlars, the round archway, the ring of which is highlighted by a crown of serrated bosses and the emphasis on the Bolognino key. Above the fornix there is an epigraph and two heraldic coats of arms with the typical Angevin shield with an inverted ogive. The upper floor has a battlements with quadrangular teeth, a reminder of the Guelph factio.

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The church of the brotherhood of San Rocco is located in one of the main streets of Bitritto, a small village a few kilometers from Bari. It is in this area, in fact, that most of the monuments and historic buildings of Bitritto and Piazza Aldo Moro are located. The church of San Rocco is a minor church, built in Apulian Romanesque style at the beginning of the 20th century. This sacred building, in fact, is quite young: it was built, in fact, a century ago, in 1915