Colossus, Cathedral and Castle: three reasons to explore Barletta
Mention you’re going to Puglia and chances are people will ask about Bari or Lecce, maybe the Gargano Peninsula or the trulli of Alberobello. But it’s unlikely that anyone will ask you about Barletta. Yet a day trip to this city of about 95,000 is worth the time. Located along the Adriatic Sea, about 60 miles north of Bari, Barletta is one of a tri...
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First U.S. exhibition dedicated to Italian artist Giuseppe De Nittis opens at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 12
The 'The Phillips Collection' museum, under the leadership of Director Dorothy Kosinski, has organized the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to Italian Impressionist painter Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884), a central figure in the history of modernism and 19th-century European art."I find it significant that the first museum of modern...
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Sea: Puglia first in Italy for bathing water quality
Puglia is confirmed first in Italy, for the second consecutive year, for bathing water quality (99 percent excellent), followed by Sardinia (97.6 percent) and Tuscany (96 percent). This is what emerges from the control and monitoring work conducted by the National System for Environmental Protection, the network that coordinates the various regiona...
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Italian traditions: Feast of Our Lady of the Sterpeto and St. Ruggero
The feast of Our Lady of the Sterpeto and St. Ruggero, after a two-year pandemic, returns to Barletta, Apulia. A millennial feast that fideistically the city's faithful repeat every year in July with heartfelt participation. The importance that the patronal feast in honor of its patron saints has always had has contributed to the solidarity of huma...
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