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UNIONE EUROPEA 12. Palazzo Cagnazzi special interest inside the church are a marble altar 26. Archive, library and civic museum 33. CHURCH OF Sant’Agostino - st. augustine Churches, 18th century made by C. Trinchese in 1765 and a late 16th century This important cultural institution hosts one of the 16th – 18th centuries The rooms on the first floor of the palazzo, now a painted wooden Crucifix. richest libraries in the , a fascinating The church was built on the site of the ancient hotel, still have their original fresco decoration. historical archive, paintings of the 16th to 18th chapel of San Bartolomeo or St. Bartholomew in Palaces, Monuments 20. Monastery of S. Maria del Soccorso centuries along with modern works by artists from 1570, but only the bottom part of its façade was 13. Palazzo Castelli - ST. MARY OF SUCCOUR - AND CHURCH OF S. Altamura, and a substantial collection of other ever completed. Pillars and broad pilasters with 16th – 17th centuries Francesco da Paola - ST. FRANCIS OF PAOLA museum exhibits. composite capitals adorn the sides of the façade, The palazzo, in which the Castelli family has lived 16th – 18th centuries while a large arched window with a shell at its polo museale and Museums without a break since it was built, is remarkable The convent, consecrated in 1596 and extended in 27. CHURCH OF S. Maria della Consolazione base graces its centre. The simple portal has an della Puglia for its fine portal and elegant balustrade sporting 1640–2, still has its cloister and large garden; the - our lady of consolation architrave with the date of construction engraved on the family crest. The family chapel beside it is marble cladding, stucco work, wooden doors to the 17th – 20th centuries it and the city’s arms carved in low relief below. The MUSEO 1. CatHedral 6. Monument to the martyrs of 1799 dedicated to Santa Maria della Vittoria or St. Mary chancel and the altarpiece by Andrea Miglionico The church, built by the Confraternita di San Vito interior, on a Greek cross plan in the late Baroque Fondo Europeo 13th – 19th centuries The monument was designed by sculptor of Victory. adorn the interior of the 18th century church, built on or Confraternity of St. Vitus in the 17th century, was style, is adorned with 18th century polychrome NAZIONALE di Sviluppo Regionale th PO FESR PUGLIA 2007-2013 The cathedral was founded at the same time as the Arnaldo Zocchi to mark the first centenary of the a Greek cross plan. radically remodelled in the 20 century. It houses marble altars. The Chapel of Santa Maria della ARCHEOLOGICO Asse IV Linea 4.2 city, although it now bears the marks of the changes heroic resistance put up by the patriots of the 14. CHURCH OF S. Maria dei Martiri - st. mary a number of interesting works of art including, in Salute, or St. Mary of Salvation, is extremely Azione 4.2.1 made to it both internally and externally over Parthenopean Republic against Cardinal Ruffo’s of the martyrs 21. MEDIEVAL WALLS particular, a painting of St. Matthew attributed to interesting with its painted majolica floor dated Via , 88 the ensuing centuries. The façade is remarkable Sanfedista troops. 13th – 18th centuries Sparano da Bari, who became Altamura’s feudal Sebastiano Ricci (c. 1700). 1750, an icon set in an elegant Baroque frame and a 70022 Altamura BA Regione Puglia for its portal (14th century) with scenes from the Built in the second half of the 13th century beside a lord in 1285, fortified the city in the late 13th century. magnificent altar by C. Trinchese. T. 080 314 6409 Area Politiche per la New Testament, such as the Last Supper on the 7. CHURCH OF S. Giacomo - st. james postern gate in the medieval city walls, this was one He built his circle of walls on top of the substantial 28. CHURCH OF S. Lorenzo - st. lawrence Promozione del Territorio architrave, for its two-light mullioned window (13th – 15th – 18th centuries of the city’s Greek churches. It was remodelled in remains of the city’s ancient megalithic walls, as we 14th – 18th centuries 34. Agip archaeology park F. 080 314 6409 dei Saperi e dei Talenti 14th centuries) and for its rose window (14th century). Built between the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the the Rococo style in the 18th century and contains a th th rd SERVizio BENI CULTURALI can see quite clearly in the surviving stretch of wall Belying its present 18 century appearance, the 4 – 3 centuries B.C. [email protected] Inside the cathedral, visitors should note the crib church was thoroughly remodelled in the 18th century. 16th century fresco of the Madonna and Child. Next near the old south gate known as Porta , or church has a 14th century inscription on the portal. The monumental side-chamber tomb in the park, carved in local stone (16th century), the Madonna The bell-gable adds a lighter note to the elegantly door stands the chapel of San Liberatore in which Matera Gate. thought to date back to the 4th century B.C. but Piano Strategico of Constantinople in polychrome stone sculpted simple façade with its sober Rococò decorations. the victims of the plague of 1527 were buried. robbed and spoiled in ancient times, is the source th LA CITTà MURGIANA by Paolo da Cassano (16 century), the bishop’s 22. Palazzo Ponzetti 29. National Archaeological museum of the fragments from countless Apulian red-figure DELLA QUALITà throne and the wooden choir carved by Nicola 8. Palazzo Viti 15. Palazzo Viti-De Angelis 17th century The museum houses finds from the Alta Murgia area ceramic vases as well as fragments of bronze and E DEL BENESSERE Bonafede comprising 68 stalls with backs adorned 17th – 19th centuries 16th – 18th centuries Formerly the property of the Cagnazzi family, the ranging from the Old Stone Age to the medieval silver, of glass paste vessels and of statuettes. A with figures of saints and virtues (16th century), The palazzo was remodelled in the early 19th century This is one of the city’s most outstanding examples palazzo has a fine cambered stone portal carved period. It includes a section devoted to Altamura house with large plastered and frescoed rooms, Palazzo and the altarpiece on the high altar depicting the to house the Appeal Court for the Bari and Otranto of a palazzo with an interior courtyard, and is with floral motifs. Note the picturesque strictula, Man, a complete human skeleton thought to date terracotta tiled floors laid in mosaic patterns and Baldassarre Assumption of the Virgin by Leonardo Castellano areas and for the region from 1808 to 1817. especially remarkable for its stone portal and or alley, running down the left-hand side of the from the Late Pleistocene era, discovered in a sink- circular areas suggesting some kind of spa-related CITTÁ (16th century). The chapels in the side aisles contain interior portico (both 16th century). building. hole in Lamalunga. use was built over the tomb in the 3rd century B.C. DI ALTAMURA Via F.lli Baldassarre, 1 paintings of the Neapolitan school dating to the 9. Monastery and CHURCH OF S. Chiara - st. second half of the 19th century. clare 70022 Altamura BA 16. Palazzo Filo 23. Palazzo Baldassarre 30. La Croce archaeology park 35. Megalithic walls 17th – 18th centuries 16th – 18th centuries 17th – 18th centuries 8th – 2nd centuries B.C. 5th – 4th centuries B.C. T. 080 3107404 2. palazzo prelatizio - archpriests’ palace The monastery, which was consecrated in 1682, still A columned portal with a split pediment adorns the Built on 15th century foundations, the palazzo is The most conspicuous evidence of Altamura’s first The Peucetian city was girt by two circles of walls, F. 080 3107404 16th – 17th centuries houses a community of Poor Clares. The church, palazzo’s façade, which is divided into three orders remarkable for its extensive loggias and balconies, urban settlement, the heart of the Peucetian city, the first (5th century B.C.) marking the acropolis The palace, the residence of Altamura’s archpriests, erected on the site of an earlier building and with rustication on the two upper storeys. its delightful wrought-iron railing and its typical may be seen in the area adjacent to the National area while the second (4th century B.C.) enclosed Edited by housed the Royal University from 1748 to 1811. completed in the first half of the 18th century, has a cannon-shaped rainwater spouts. Archaeological Museum. The archaeological layers the northwestern slopes of the hill, stretching for Damiana Santoro single nave with side niches and carved polychrome 17. Casa Còrcoli highlight a series of superimposed settlements 3,670 metres. Comprising two wall faces made of 3. CHURCH OF S. Michele arcangelo - st. wooden fittings. 16th century 24. MuseUM OF THE ART OF PRINTING stretching from the 8th to the 2nd centuries B.C., with large, unshaped limestone and calcarenite blocks Photographs michael the archangel This Renaissance home has a fine portal and Founded by the Portoghese brothers in 1891, the traces of houses, graves and a pottery kiln. set without mortar and with the space between 17th – 18th centuries 10. CHURCH OF S. Niccolò dei Greci - st. balustrade carved with crests and floral motifs. printing works moved into part of the area formerly filled with earth and rubble (a technique known by Salvatore Santoro The church, home to the Confraternita del nicholas of the greeks occupied by the Conventual Franciscan Monastery 31. descalced carmelite monastery and the ancient Greek term emplekton), the walls are CENTRO VISITE Raffaele Popolizio (Falco grillaio) Purgatorio or Confraternity of Purgatory whose 13th – 16th centuries 18. Palazzo Tricarico of Sant’Antonio, or St. Anthony, in 1893. The CHURCH OF S. Teresa - st. teresa five to six metres wide at the base and once rose crest may be seen on the portal, is remarkable for The Altamura Greek community’s church was built 16th century impressive array of printing machinery and vast 17th – 18th centuries to a height of about six metres, with a wallwalk Lamalunga Graphic design and layout its high altar made by Neapolitan marble worker C. in the 13th century and thoroughly remodelled in the Now the residence of the aristocratic Castelli family, collection of lead and wood characters, friezes, The complex was built on the site of the ancient on top that was reached via ladders set against th RovaiWeber design Firenze Trinchese in 1572–3. 16 century, when Nicola De Gessa carved the portal local historical tradition tells us that the palazzo stamps and so forth can still be seen in situ today. Chapel of San Vito, or St. Vitus, outside the medieval the inner wall face. The wall was pierced by gates S.P. 157 per Quasano with scenes from the Old and New Testaments. The once belonged to the family of Paolo Tricarico who walls. The church’s polychrome marble altars of the corresponding to the roads that led to the main 70022 Altamura BA 4. Palazzo Calderoni Martini church is remarkable not only for its Baroque altars slew the Prince of Taranto Giovannatonio Orsini-Del 25. Convent and CHURCH OF S. Domenico - Neapolitan school are particuarly fine. settlements in Peucetia; one such gate may still be Translations by T. 080 3107404 16th – 17th centuries with their gilded woodwork but also for a Crucifix Balzo. The palazzo has a stone portal decorated st. dominic seen in the stretch of wall runnning between the Stephen Tobin th th th th F. 080 3107404 The late 16th century palazzo was partly remodelled (15 century), a stone statue of St. Nicholas (15 with two figures whom we may assume to be the 16 – 19 centuries 32. Ethnographical museum of Alta Murgia Cassano road and the Bari road. in the Baroque era. century), the baptismal font (13th century) and a owners, and a small courtyard. The Dominicans began to build their church The museum, housed in the former convent of the fresco depicting the Virgin Mary (15th century). and convent in 1513, but the entire complex was Descalced Carmelites (17th – 18th centuries), hosts 5. Palazzo Melodia 19. Church and conservatory of S. Croce - thoroughly remodelled in the early 18th century. The a collection of objects of daily use from times 19th century 11. CHURCH OF S. Biagio - st. blaise holy cross church dome, clad in majolica tiles, is over thirty- past alongside a range of tools and items used by The palazzo was built to a design by Altamura-born 17th – 18th centuries 17th century seven metres high, while the interior its adorned farmers and shepherds and in other traditional crafts © Copyright 2015 architect Orazio Lerario in the Neo-Classical style in Home to the Congrega di San Biagio or The history of the church and conservatory is with polychrome marble altars of the Neapolitan in the Alta Murgia region. di Altamura the first half of the 19th century, as an extension to Congregation of St. Blaise, the church is worthy closely bound up with that of the Real Congrega di school. www.uomodialtamura.it All rights reserved by the authors and/or those with the Melodia’s original 16th century family seat. of note for the fresco on the façade depicting St. S. 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