Gravina in Puglia

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Gravina in Puglia
coat of arms
Gravina in Puglia (Italy)
Gravina in Puglia
Country Italy
region Apulia
Metropolitan city Bari  (BA)
Coordinates 40 ° 49 '  N , 16 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 49 '14 "  N , 16 ° 25' 24"  E
height 338  m slm
surface 381.36 km²
Residents 43,578 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 114 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 70024
prefix 080
ISTAT number 072023
Popular name gravinesi
Patron saint Archangel Michael , Philipp Neri (Kopatron)
Website Gravina in Puglia
Panorama of Gravina in Puglia
Panorama of Gravina in Puglia

Gravina in Puglia (formerly Gravina in Apulia ; Latin Silvium , Greek Σιλούϊον ) is a southern Italian city with 43,578 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the metropolitan city of Bari ; it is located on the river of the same name in the western Murgia in Apulia . Gravina is the administrative seat of the Parco Nazionale dell'Alta Murgia .

history

The city was founded by the Greeks at the time of the colonization of Magna Graecias in the hinterland as a polis with minting rights. Diodorus writes that the Romans took them from the Samnites during the 3rd Samnite War (305 BC or 306 BC). Strabo mentions it as a borderline point from Peuketien and Pliny the Elder lists its name under the cities of Apulia. The Via Appia from Rome to Brindisi ran through the town. Later Gravina were ruled by the Byzantines , Lombards and the North African Muslims.

At the time of the Normans (who called the place Garagnone or Garaynone ) and the kings of the House of Anjou , Gravina was the seat of a county. The counts came from the Gravina family and from around 1420 to 1816 from the Orsini family , who were elevated to dukes of Gravina in 1436. In 1649 Pope Benedict XIII was here . born as Pietro Francesco Orsini.

Attractions

  • Gravina Cathedral (11th-12th centuries), built by the Normans in Romanesque style. It was destroyed by fire and earthquake in the middle of the 15th century. It houses an arm of Thomas Becket , which Bishop Roberto received in 1179, as a relic .
  • The ruins of a castle of Emperor Friedrich II.
  • The Church of San Francesco (late 15th / early 16th century)
  • The Church of Sant'Agostino
  • The baroque church of Madonna delle Grazie
  • The renaissance church of San Sebastiano
  • The church of Santa Sofia with mausoleum by Angela Kastrioti († 1518) from the branch line of the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg ; Wife of Ferdinand Orsini , 5th Duca di Gravina and Conte di Muro Lucano
  • The church of San Michele delle Grotte (10th century) cut out of the rock
  • The well-preserved Roman bridge
  • The Museo Ettore Pomarici Santomasi
  • The St. George's Fair, one of the oldest fairs in Europe, which has been held in April since 1294.

  • Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral

  • Inside the cathedral

  • The ruins of Frederick II's castle

  • Campanile of the Chiesa San Francesco

  • Chiesa di Santa Sofia, mausoleum of Angela Branai (Granai) Kastrioti

  • San Vito Vecchio grotto church

  • Roman bridge

sons and daughters of the town

Others

In Gravina the film was made Maria, he doesn't like it! filmed, but the city is called "Campobello" in this film.

The spectacular scenes from the James Bond film “ No Time to Die ” were filmed on the Roman Bridge in 2019 .

Events

  • since 2013 Passio Christi

Web links

Commons : Gravina in Puglia  - 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. ↑ Diod. xx. 80
  3. ↑ vi. p. 283
  4. ↑ Plin. iii. 11. p. 16
  5. ↑ Johann Huebner: Genealogical tables: In addition to the related genealogical questions, to explain the political history, fourth part . Leipzig 1733, p. 1111 ( online version in Google Book Search).
  6. ↑ Jennifer Geminiani: Hollywood in Italy: James Bond is shooting in this small town on reisereporter.de