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One of the most beautiful oaks in the Murgia north of Bari. With an age of 400 years, a height of over 15 meters and a trunk diameter of 4 meters, it is truly a beautiful and welcoming stopover point.

In any case, a small square, view of the museum and the church.

The small church of San Magno is located in the Alta Murgia National Park. Its peculiarity is to enclose two buildings with different functions in the same building: a neviera, which served to pack the snow and reuse it in the summer as an important source of water, and a small church for the population living in the nearby farms. The basement of the neviera is the oldest, later the church was built, which initially had a barrel roof, which was later rebuilt with a gable roof, probably after a collapse. On the south-east façade there is a window and on the roof a small bell tower in tuff surmounted by an iron cross. There is a trace of the church in a notarial document called "Donation of San Magno" of 1128, mentioned in the 9th volume of the Diplomatic Code of Bari, which testifies to the existence of the church already at the beginning of the 12th century.

Dirt road to reach the Jazzo del Demonio

A handful of kilometers from Ruvo di Puglia and Corato, this bridge overlooks the Scoparella forest and the so-called jazzo del Demonio, two of the last wooded places where it is still possible to find specimens of downy oak, once much more present throughout the Apulian territory.

Ruvo di Puglia is a municipality at the foot of the Murge plateau, part of the Alta Murgia National Park. It is a city of art and culture, famous for the Jatta national archaeological museum, which preserves artifacts from the Hellenistic age. In the historic centre, the Apulian Romanesque co-cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, is worth a visit.

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