Barletta

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Barletta
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Barletta (Italy)
Barletta
Country Italy
region Apulia
province Barletta-Andria-Trani  (BT)
Coordinates 41 ° 19 ′  N , 16 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 41 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
height -5  m slm
surface 146 km²
Residents 94,316 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 646 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 76121
prefix 0883
ISTAT number 110002
Popular name Barlettani
Patron saint San Ruggiero di Canne, SS Madonna dello Sterpeto
Website Comune di Barletta
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore in berets
The Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore in berets

Barletta is a port city in the Italian province of Barletta-Andria-Trani in Apulia .

Location and dates

The city covers an area of ​​146 km². The production of sea ​​salt and the paper, chemical and cement industries are economically important.

The neighboring municipalities are Andria , Canosa di Puglia , Margherita di Savoia , San Ferdinando di Puglia , Trani and Trinitapoli .

The city has 94,316 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019)

history

Before the colonization by Greeks and Romans, the Phoenicians already maintained a trading post at this place, which they called Baal-El . In the 3rd century BC The city was re-founded under the name Bardulos or Barulum . After the conquest by the Lombards , the area was finally taken over by the Normans , who built a fortress here. During the time of the Crusades , Barletta became one of the important gathering points for the knight armies. The Teutonic Knight Order , the Templars and the Johanniter had branches here. When the Muslims had recaptured the disputed country, the Archbishop of Nazareth lived permanently in exile in Barletta from 1327.

Under Frederick II and the Anjou , the city experienced its heyday. In 1503 an Italian-French dispute took place here, which has become known as Disfida di Barletta . During the Second World War, the city was the scene of the first action of the Resistancea , the Italian resistance against National Socialism . Since 2008 Barletta has been one of the three capitals of the newly founded province of Barletta-Andria-Trani .

Attractions

Staufer fort
Colossus of Barletta

The cathedral from the 12th to 14th centuries, a Staufer castle from the 13th and 16th centuries and the so-called Colossus of Barletta , a bronze statue of a Roman emperor from the 5th century, are worth seeing . To the southwest of the city is the Cannae battlefield .

  • The Stauferkastell was built by the Normans at the beginning of the 10th century. During the Crusades , it served as a base for crusaders and their followers, who gathered here on their way to the Holy Land .
During the reign of Frederick II, the fort was expanded from 1225 to 1228. When the Anjou in Apulia took over, they had the fortress expanded. Under Charles V , the fortress was expanded once more, expanded by four massive bastions and received its present form.
During the First World War the fort served as a barracks and an arsenal.
  • The Cathedral of Santa Maria Maggiore was built on the foundations of a former Neptune temple. The building shows a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic styles. The so-called Grotticella graves from the 3rd century BC are located on the lower floor . BC, over which an early Christian basilica was built in the 6th century . A Romanesque basilica was built on this site in the 12th century and was consecrated in 1267. The building was changed in the 14th century in the Gothic style, the nave was given a Gothic rib vault .
  • The Church of San Giacomo , built in the 11th century, was built on the remains of a temple of Isis from Roman times, which is considered the first Isis sanctuary on Roman soil. In the middle of the 18th century the church fell victim to an earthquake and was consecrated again in 1751 after it was rebuilt.

Museums

  • Pinacoteca De Nittis in the Palazzo della Marra . Works by the impressionist painter Giuseppe de Nittis are shown in a permanent exhibition
  • Museo civico e Pinacoteca di Barletta in the castle. The Immesi, Gabbiani, Ricci collections are on display. The famous contemporary bust that is supposed to represent Frederick II is kept in the fort.
  • Museum of the Cathedral , a collection of sacred art and liturgical objects, as well as 2000 parchment codices and manuscripts, some of them from the 9th century
  • Antiquarium in Canne della Battaglia . Finds from the excavations of the battlefield of Cannae will be presented , namely prehistoric, Greek and medieval finds. The museum has a rich collection of vases with geometric decorations from the 4th to 3rd centuries BC. BC, grave goods from an ancient burial ground near Cannae.
  • Treasury of the Basilica Santo Sepolcro , with liturgical objects made of gold, some of which come from the Near East.

Town twinning

Barletta's twin town has been Herceg Novi in Montenegro since 2010 .

sons and daughters of the town

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Barletta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Preesistenze daunio-fiction. Mseocattedralebarletta, accessed March 15, 2017 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Comune di Barletta - La Cittá , accessed on June 14, 2017