Historic Center Tour of Brindisi

Highlights

• Historic center tour
• Entrance tickets included
• Time-efficient

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Monumento a Virgilio

   10min

   A marble sculpture created by the Lombard artist Floriano Bodini and placed in the gardens of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II in Brindisi. Commissioned in 1981 to celebrate the two thousandth anniversary of the poet's death, the work was inaugurated on March 27, 1986.

2. 2

   Viale Regina Margherita

   Pass by

   joins the garden of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II with the new tree-lined square in front of the Prefect's house

3. 3

   Colonne Terminali della Via Appia

   10min

   columns

4. 4

   Stop 4

   20min

   The oldest square in the city, overlooked by the Cathedral, the Seminary, the loggia of the Balsamo palace, the S. Vincenzo Institute and the Provincial Archaeological Museum with the portico of the Knights of Jerusalem.

5. 5

   Museo Archeologico Provinciale Francesco Ribezzo

   20min

   The tour continues in the very interesting rooms of the Archaeological Museum.

6. 6

   Area Archeologica di San Pietro degli Schiavoni

   20min

   The archaeological area comprising a district of the Roman city at the center of which is a hinge, that is one of the north-south road axes, on the sides of which the remains of domus with mosaic floors are clearly identifiable. The “Giuseppe Verdi” municipal theater develops on the finds.

7. 7

   Palazzo Granafei Nervegna

   20min

   One of the most important historical buildings of the city inside houses the original capital of the Roman column

8. 8

   Tempio di San Giovanni al Sepolcro

   20min

   In the historic center of Brindisi stands the "Temple of San Giovanni al Sepolcro", one of the most emblematic and mysterious buildings in the city. The plan of the building and its structural peculiarities seem to preserve the spiritual intensity of those who have frequented it over the centuries, making it a place of particular telluric sacredness.

Before you go

Location