And although we had low/no expectations for Bari, we found that we liked it a lot: university town, port city with a seemingly endless waterfront promenade, ancient to medieval old city, and trains and buses in every direction (not to mention ferries).
The scenery from the train on our way to Bari from Martina Franca was typical Apulia; vineyards, olive groves and wheat fields.
A walkway through a garden in front of the University of Bari, the most prestigious university in southern Italy and with 60,000 students.
The harbor.
Seaside soccer.
Street in the Old Town - not on a grid we made several serious navigation errors. ;-)
The Basilica of Saint Nicholas was impressive, in, out, and below.
The crypt below the transept; said to have relics of St. Nicholas.
Our hotel was in a multi-cultural neighborhood tucked in between the Train Stations and Bari University. Our neighborhood mosque.
And across the street was an Art Nouveau building.
Often we would run across a shrine decorated for Easter.
There are a series of "modern" buildings along the south waterfront promenade; a couple of Art Nouveau-ish theaters, and a string of between-the-wars monumental government buildings commissioned by Mussolini.
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Interesting! I've always thought of Bari as just the place to get the ferry to Greece. Seems it's rather more.
That is one empty train!!!
A string of monumental gov't buildings. I'll say!
Basilica of Saint Nicholas, like I said about money in religious buildings.
The store front mosque is not so imposing.
If I have your location correct, there are a McDonalds and a Burger King nearby. Just like home!
@Kathy, same here. We only went to Bari as "Easter refugees," no one goes there, business hotels slow for Easter.... It was great fun catching all the Easter festivities. We'd love to go again for Easter!
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