Giovinazzo, Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, Italy

History | Tourist Industry

🇮🇹 Giovinazzo (Scevenàzze) is a town, comune (municipality) and former bishopric within the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia region, south-eastern Italy.

History It was a small fortified centre of the Romans, who called it Natolium, maybe built on the ruins of the Peucete Netium which was destroyed during the Punic Wars.

After the Byzantine period, it became a countship (later a duchy). It became later a flourishing commercial centre, that had trading connections with Venice.

Tourist Industry • The co-cathedral, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta (Mary's Assumption), built in the Norman period (1150–1180), in characteristic Apulian Romanesque style featuring Eastern and Western elements, consecrated in 1283 under bishop Giovanni II; under bishop Paolo De Mercurio (1731–1752) it got a thorough Baroque remodeling. • Ducal Palace/Castle (17th century) • Two columns of the Via Traiana, which however did not pass through the city.

In the neighbourhood is Castel del Monte, one of the most famous castles in southern Italy, built during the 1240s by Frederick II Hohenstaufen.

Europe/Rome/Bari 
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Giovinazzo has a population of over 20 people. Giovinazzo also forms part of the wider Bari Metropolitan City which has a population of over 1,261,954 people. Giovinazzo is situated near Bari.

Twin Towns - Sister Cities Giovinazzo has links with:

🇮🇹 Guastalla, Italy
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Antipodal to Giovinazzo is: -163.333,-41.183

Locations Near: Giovinazzo 16.6667,41.1833

🇮🇹 Bitonto 16.683,41.117 d: 7.5  

🇮🇹 Molfetta 16.599,41.201 d: 6  

🇮🇹 Bisceglie 16.5,41.233 d: 15  

🇮🇹 Bari 16.867,41.117 d: 18.3  

🇮🇹 Trani 16.417,41.267 d: 22.9  

🇮🇹 Andria 16.295,41.233 d: 31.6  

🇮🇹 Altamura 16.55,40.817 d: 41.9  

🇮🇹 Barletta 16.279,41.32 d: 35.8  

🇮🇹 Matera 16.6,40.667 d: 57.7  

🇮🇹 Taranto 17.251,40.465 d: 93.7  

Antipodal to: Giovinazzo -163.333,-41.183

🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 17521.3  

🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 17075.4  

🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16939.8  

🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16866.2  

🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 13189.1  

🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 13095.1  

🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13080.6  

🇺🇸 Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 13076.5  

🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 13076.4  

🇺🇸 Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 13044.2  

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