Wedding in Italy

The Pino Pascali museum, located in Polignano a Mare, is the only foundation dedicated to contemporary art in Apulia. The structure houses a permanent collection of the Polignanese artist flanked by temporary exhibitions. The foundation celebrates an artist who has made the experience of play the manifesto of his art: inside the building you can see photos and drawings of the master’s autographs, alongside works by other contemporary artists.

The Castle of Monopoli, built on the strip of land more advanced than the sea, was part of the coastal fortification system, wanted by Charles V in Apulia. The castle has a pentagonal shape, typical of the sixteenth-century forts, but it seems to have incorporated a pre-existing cylindrical tower, of Roman form, which gives a singular relief to the entrance and to the façade itself. The undergrounds are also incorporated, including the ancient Basilian church of San Nicola della Pinna, which has become the church of the fortress.

The ancient Masseria Ferragnano, home of the LAG Valle d’Itria, in the mid-nineteenth century was inhabited by the owner Giovanni Caramia who donated it to the City for the education of the poor. The structure is flanked by a recently restored chapel, an Italian garden and large greenhouses..

Locorotondo rises linda and silent on the top of a hill that surrounds the last murgian buttresses of Bari. Harmoniously rounded as the toponym itself suggests, Locorotondo owes its name to the morphology assumed by the first inhabited center, built around a thousand. The first houses of a village made up of farmers were built on a plateau equipped, leaning against each other, circular, as if to wreath a crown that land torn oak woods and fragments to make it cultivable and productive.

The museum of the territory of Alberobello stands in a place of great cultural and environmental importance, the “Murgia dei trulli e delle Grotte”. It consists of the largest complex of contiguous and communicating trulli (fifteen) that can be visited in Alberobello, the oldest of which date back to the 18th century. The museum center, a perfect example of the construction tradition of dry trulli, was born from the desire to preserve and narrate the history of the area of ​​the Trulli district, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as an artistic heritage of worldwide interest.

Ostuni is the city of panoramas par excellence. At each window there is a vista to behold, at a restaurant there is a poet who scans the plains below where olive trees sway in the breeze. All Ostuni houses, walls, windows, doors and stairs are painted pure white to protect against the sun. It is often referred to as the “Pearl City”. The Town Hall creates an imposing statement and backdrop to this unique ancient town.

The castle was built by order of Charles I of Anjou between 1278 and 1281 to defend the south-Bari coast from frequent raids by pirates. After scrupulous restoration work carried out very well, the castle appears today splendid and proud, a sign of the powerful identity of Mola di Bari. The original east access with a lowered arch, hypogeum routes, an evocative panoramic terrace, the west curtain have been recovered. Some of the rooms on the ground and first floors are today fascinating locations for conferences and other important cultural and artistic events.

The medieval castle rises in the middle of the historic area of ​​Sannicandro di Bari. It consists of two distinct walls built between different ages by the Byzantines and the Swabians. It is considered a castle defended by the Saracen invasions placed in 1916 to guard the populations of the village of Sannicandro. Once the fortress was equipped with eight towers of fortification of which only six survive, while the Norman-Swabian architecture, in addition to two magnificent portals that retain respectively one the holes for which passed the chains of the drawbridge and the other the emblem of the Grimaldi princes, the Falconeria premises remain.