Bari and Matera

Bari

Third city in Southern Italy (preceded by Palermo and Naples); regional capital; main port of the Adriatic and centuries-old hub of civil and commercial traffic between East and West: Bari is all this and much more. It is also, for example, one of the most important centers of the Orthodox Church in the West, without forgetting the crucial role played by the city in the early 1990s with the reception of tens of thousands of Albanians fleeing their country.

The images of that exodus in the port of Bari represent on a historical level one of the most significant frames of the end of an era dominated by the geo-political balances of the Cold War. It is not over, because with the beginning of the new millennium the city of San Nicola has also begun to work on its tourist image in the historic center.

There are those who, exaggerating, compared the Bari seafront to the legendary Ocean Drive in Miami Beach. The exaggeration, however, does not refer to the beauty of the places, because indeed that of Bari has nothing to envy to the others, as to the tourist-commercial gap that exists with other realities, not just Miami. A gap that the municipal administration is trying to fill with a redevelopment project that mainly affects the Emperor Augustus section where, according to the plans, the promenade will be enlarged complete with a walkway-solarium on the water. While waiting for developments, it is still worth taking a walk along the Bari promenade.

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Bari

4 Stars Hotels
∗ Palace Hotel Bari – from € 104, https://www.palacehotelbari.com/
∗ Mercure villa romanazzi carducci bari – from € 110, https://all.accor.com/hotel/1971/index.en.
∗ Terranobile Metaresort – from € 119, https://www.terranobile.it/hotel/

Matera

You cannot say that you know Italy without having been to Matera at least once. A risky statement? Try to look out, in the evening, at the belvedere in Piazza Vittorio Veneto, the one half-hidden under the three arches, and let us know if you have ever seen something like this. The Sassi have the attraction of the unlikely wrote Guido Piovene. There are no comparisons that hold, in Matera, built on stone and in stone, defying the laws of architecture and urban planning: unique, not only in Italy, but in all of Western Europe.

Matera