In the heart of the historic centre of Foggia, near piazza del Lago -the place in which, according to legend, the Byzantine icon was found around which the original nucleus of the city grew up - stands the cathedral dedicated to Santa Maria Icona Vet...

Both the religious and residential architectural heritage of the city of Foggia are quite rich and stratified from a stylistic standpoint, despite the enormous devastation provoked by bombardment during the course of the Second World War. Along Via A...

Rebuilt on the ruins of the royal palace erected for Frederick II in 1233, the Arpi mansion, housing the Foggia Civic Museum, on its right side - the only remains of the emperor's sumptuous residence - has an archivolt with protruding cornice, decora...

A few kilometres from Foggia, in the open countryside, is the Arpi site, the largest and most important city of ancient Daunia, also known by its Greek place name, Argyripta. Standing midway between the mountains and the sea and enclosed by fortifica...

One of the churches dearest to the people of Foggia is the Chiesa del Calvario e delle Croci, located on the road to S. Severo. The complex, made up of a triumphal arch, 5 chapels and the church itself, was a built between the end of the seventeenth ...

Called "the spur of Italy" owing to its particular position on the Italian peninsula, the Gargano massif, the most easterly outpost of Puglia, covers a surface area of over 2,000 sq. km., 65 km. long, it stretches towards the Adriatic and the Balkans...