Bari Self-Guided Audio Tour: City of Relics and Refugees

Highlights

• Flexible audio guide
• Independent walking
• Offline navigation

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Porto Vecchio

   15min

   Stand on the quay where an angry god's threat still shapes what Bari eats for breakfast.

2. 2

   Stop 2

   5min

   Look up at a turbaned stone head that arrived here, locals say, without its body.

3. 3

   Basilica San Nicola

   25min

   Trace the fortress walls raised to guard bones that sixty-two sailors stole from another country.

4. 4

   Cattedrale di San Sabino

   Pass by

   See where the city's original patron lost everything to a newcomer who arrived by boat.

5. 5

   Stop 5

   10min

   Pause where the women of this quarter were said to leap from rooftops after dark.

6. 6

   Castello Normanno Svevo

   Pass by

   Encounter the emperor who drilled a peephole to test whether a famous saint was truly pure.

7. 7

   Stop 7

   10min

   Piece together the Morse code sentence a mayor left facing the sea, and its twin across the Adriatic.

8. 8

   Palazzo Mincuzzi

   5min

   Spot the letter M hidden a hundred times over on a merchant's temple to shopping.

Before you go

Location