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- French
- Dutch
- Spanish
Most people rush through Bari on the way to a ferry. They miss that a disaster in this harbour handed modern medicine its first chemotherapy drug. They fail to learn about how a crew of Bari sailors sailed to Turkey, broke open a tomb, and carried home the bones of the man the world would later call Santa Claus. Their names are still listed in the basilica they built to hold him.
This is a self-guided audio tour of Bari. Download it to the app, put in your earphones, and walk. No meeting point, no fixed start time, no group.
Nineteen stops through Bari, where you see a carved Turkish head with a decapitation legend, an arch where women were said to leap from roofs as cats, a marble tomb built by a daughter certain her mother was murdered, and the town hall of a mayor who refused to turn away 20,000 refugees.
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Itinerary
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1Porto Vecchio
Stand on the quay where an angry god's threat still shapes what Bari eats for breakfast.
15 minutes • Admission ticket free -
2
Look up at a turbaned stone head that arrived here, locals say, without its body.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
3Basilica San Nicola
Trace the fortress walls raised to guard bones that sixty-two sailors stole from another country.
25 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Cattedrale di San Sabino (Pass by)
See where the city's original patron lost everything to a newcomer who arrived by boat.
Admission ticket free -
4
Pause where the women of this quarter were said to leap from rooftops after dark.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Castello Normanno Svevo (Pass by)
Encounter the emperor who drilled a peephole to test whether a famous saint was truly pure.
Admission ticket free -
5
Piece together the Morse code sentence a mayor left facing the sea, and its twin across the Adriatic.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free -
6Palazzo Mincuzzi
Spot the letter M hidden a hundred times over on a merchant's temple to shopping.
5 minutes • Admission ticket free -
Palazzo dell'Acquedotto Pugliese (Pass by)
Uncover why a thirsty city built what people rightly call a cathedral of water.
Admission ticket free
Additional info
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Cancellation Policy
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