Adriatic Cruise from Venice Part 5
To be continued - start here
We arrived in the city of Bari (the capital of Apulia), one of the oldest and most famous settlements in the region. The city is patronized by St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (San Nicola).
Planning a route - visit St. Nicholas Basilica, then see the Old Town, seaside castle Friedrich< a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%84%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8B"> Hohenstaufen (Castello Svevo, XIII century), and spend the rest walking around this city.
The attraction of Bari is primarily that this big city has retained the atmosphere of a small town. A city where you can see castles, luxury shops, small markets, pubs, cafes, a charming promenade,
leading from the historic center of the old town to the beach called “Pane e Pomodoro” (“Bread and Tomato”).
We go out to the pier, meet the sounds of the orchestra (it turns out that the liner of our company visited this city for the first time). Each is given a basket of cherries, and women are given a rose. We head to the embankment, from here we go to the Basilica of St. Nicholas.
Let's go to St. Nicholas
The history of ancient Barium, as the city was then called, can be traced back to at least the beginning of the first millennium BC. In the first century AD, the famous Trajan road passes through Barium, and then the city falls under the control of the Saracens, then the Byzantines, then the Normans, gradually becoming the second most important economic and cultural center of the southern part of the country. This is facilitated by the convenient location on the peninsula,
on each side of which there are good harbors (Bari was one of the largest ports in Italy in antiquity, and remains so today). And in the hilly areas around the city, cereals, olives and grapes have been grown since ancient times.
The main attraction of Bariand one of the main shrines of the Christian world is the St. Nicholas Basilica (1087), where the myrrh-streaming relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker are located, which are almost a thousand years rest in the church of St. Nicholas. In 1087, they were secretly taken out of the Lycian World and have since been kept in this church, turning it into one of the centers of Orthodoxy. So, those tourists who believe that the relics of St. Nicholas in Turkey are deeply mistaken. And I saw them. This church is also interesting in that its upper part is allocated to Catholics, the lower one - to Orthodox. The crypt is where the relics are stored.
Entrance to the Basilica
Inside the church, Catholic part
Altar
For almost a hundred years, there has been a Orthodox Church , where services are led by a Russian priest Moscow patriarchy.
The Orthodox part of the church, in the crypt
The relics lie there
Here we are in the basilica, candles are lit St. Nicholas, we look at the relics, the basilica is beautiful, restorers are near the altar, we leave the church. You can go further on a sightseeing train, but we walk to the Old Town.
This is where the real Italian life is. Old houses, shops, dancing tarantella, narrow streets where cars cannot pass.
Dance the tarantella
We take a leisurely walk to the Castle of the Crusader Hohenstaufen. Some kind of costumed carnival procession is taking place. Rest at the castle, tourists are advised not to waste time visiting, there is nothing special there.
Some kind of carnival procession
By the way, it is also advised to keep an eye on handbags, video cameras and cameras, they are torn out of hands and rolled away on scooters. The Italians themselves complain
that there has never been such a theft and the Tunisian refugees are blamed.
Next we go to the cathedral.
Cathedral
The modern part of Bari begins. A beautiful boulevard, we look into the shops, we see the oldest theater Petruchelli.
It's time to feed yourself. Our supplies from the ship have run out. We always take fruit on the road, some pastries, sat down in a cafe, took coffee, delicious Italian ice cream.
Next we go to the embankment,
We walk along it and back to the ship.
Promenade in Bari
We have arrived at the port, getting ready for the evening at La Scala. This is the name of the theater on the ship.
At the Seaport building
At the theater
They said he sang with Michael Jackson
We left Bari, the whole route with such weather
Ship deck
