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Brindisi
Brindisi (ab. 95.383), capoluogo di provincia pugliese, possiede l’ unico porto naturale sicuro della costa adriatica. Infatti la città è situata su un promontorio tra i due rami del suo porto interno.
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Fulcrum of the development and fortune of the town, the port of Brindisi lies along a deep and jagged bay in the Adriatic coast, divided into three well defined docks. The outer harbour extends between the chain of islets called Pedagne and the islan... 
Two great fortifications nowadays testify to the strategic and commercial importance enjoyed by Brindisi in the past. The defence of the old town was entrusted in 1227 to the castle erected by Federick II on the banks of the western branch of the por... 
The religious architectonic heritage of Brindisi is remarkably interesting. On the square of the same name, dominating the western branch of the port, stands the Baroque Church of Santa Teresa, characterised by its rich façade of pilasters and pinnac... 
In the old centre of Brindisi, on a terrace facing the inner harbour, rises one of the two columns from the Roman period, which it would appear indicated the end of the ancient Via Appia in the Apulian town. The base of its twin, which collapsed in 1... 
On the central square of the Duomo, annexed to the portico of the Knights Templars, stands the F. Ribezzo Provincial Archaeological Museum, inaugurated in 1958. The museum is divided into thematic sectors, these include the epigraphic and statuary se... 
In the square of the Duomo of Brindisi runs the so-called portico of the Knights Templars, attributed by others to the De Cateniano family, who owned it up to the sixteenth century. Characterised by the refined dual colouring of its quoins, nowadays ... 
3 km to the north of Brindisi, near the airport, rises the splendid Church of Santa Maria del Casale, founded at the end of the thirteenth century by Philippe of Anjou, Prince of Taranto. Characterised by the refined chromatic play of the white and d... 
An important example off Romanesque architecture and eminent testimony to the role played by the town and port of Brindisi at the time of the Crusades, the temple of S. Giovanni al Sepolcro was erected in the eleventh century by the knights Templars,... 
In the heart of the old town centre of Brindisi opens out the lovely piazza del Duomo, taking its name from the solemn cathedral, dedicated to St. John the Baptist. Building began in 1100 and finished in 1132, while in 1225 the building hosted the we... 
