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Bisceglie "città dei dolmen"

Bisceglie

 

Bisceglie is an important agricultural center with manufacturing industries. Are thriving businesses and tourism. The climate is Mediterranean. The municipal slips into the sea furrowed by old blades.

Origins of the city: the territory of Bisceglie was inhabited right from 'Paleolithic era to a population of Mediterranean ancestry. In the cave of zembro, were found some remains of pottery of the Neolithic period. Around the year 1000 the Normans landed on the Adriatic coast. In 1060 the oldest part of the city was equipped with an imposing watchtower that the main tower. In this era was introduced the cult of the saints Mauro, Sergio, and Pantaleone who became the new protectors of Bisceglie. Was established in 1063 by Pope Alexander II, the Episcopal Cathedral of Bisceglie ..

What to see: Cathedral Bisceglie situated in the historical center is a charming example of Romanesque. The whole church, between the end of '700 and early' 800, was transformed into Baroque style with the inclusion of a dome and the stucco coating of the interior surfaces and pillars. Over the past 70 years the intervention Baroque was removed. On the front is narrated the history of salvation, which opens in Eden and ends with the spreading of the Word in the whole universe. Prominent feature of the cathedral are the two Roman columns supporting the statues fifteenth of St. Paul and St. Peter, to whom the cathedral is dedicated.

Another important element of the historic city of Bisceglie is the dolmen of Chianca discovered August 6, 1909 by archaeologists Mosso and Samarelli. The structure is typical of a burial chamber and a corridor accesso.Tutto the material that makes up the dolmen is limestone from the surrounding area.

Traditions and folklore as part of the folklore of Puglia, the traditions of Bisceglie are a heritage of customs, attitudes, behaviors, religious rituals, songs and stories, typical of the rural world - the southern seaside. The ancient tradition of theater in Bisceglie, finds evidence in a form not to be forgotten: Don Pancrazio Cucuzziello.

 

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