A brief stop in Brindisi, to greet my relatives. Puglia, Italy

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brief stop in Brindisi to find relatives.
Brindisi (87,935 inhabitants) is a city of Puglia, the capital of the province and third cities of Salento by number of inhabitants. Situated in a natural harbor on the Adriatic Sea.

Very important port on the trade and transport to Greece, is home to an airport. The two Roman columns are always the symbol of the city of Brindisi. Although it is considered, wrongly, that mark the spot where it ended the Via Appia, in fact acted as a reference port for the ancient mariners. Were built in the second century with a marble from Turkey, today is only a supplement and is formed by eight Rocchi, for a total height of 18.74 meters. The Corinthian capital decorated with acanthus leaves, heads of divinity, and eight triton. The other column collapsed in 1528, today has been the only one of the basic and Rocchi. The remainder is located in Piazza Santo Oronzo in Lecce.
In Piazza del Duomo is ammirabilr the Portico of the Knights Templars, built in the XIV century, the remains of a much more majestic building. Today costituiusce entry Ribezzo Museum, where he keeps all that is found in the province, home to the valuable section of the cast of Trajan's Column which is shown in the port of Brindisi, there are also many vases, pottery and statues. Other sections of the museum exhibits that illustrate the testimony of the port trade since prehistoric times.
Also in Old Town is the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, which was built in 1600 and was built by the Dukes of Lorraine.
Today's Piazza della Vittoria, which consists of two squares in the seventeenth century were called the square of the square of the nobles and people, where the market. In the summers of 1617 and 1618 Brindisi experienced epidemics due to water scarcity that drove people to drink water and not practical. The then governor of the city, Captain Pedro Aloysio de Torres, Spanish high capacity, to carry water to the people, decided to build three fountains in the town, charging the cost to the citizens in proportion to the possibilities of each . Fountain Square Vitooria, consisting of a large marble basin in which they collected the water gushing from a nice small tank top, and marble, much like a baptismal font dating back to older, there is an inscription in memory the Governor de Torres.
The large fountain, also known as fountain Tancredi, is near the end of the via Appia, despite its name, was built by the Romans. Tancredi, Count of Lecce and the last Norman king, was concerned only to have it restored in 1192, in memory of a marriage celebrated in the Cathedral of that year his son Roger and Irene of Greece, daughter of Isaac of Constantinople.
Piazza Cairoli is located the Fountain of the Anchors, which dates back to 1937. The original design consists of a central column with four beams that hold Littoria creating an elegant cup evocative effects of light, was completely revised with a project dell'Ente Autonomo Aqueduct Pugliese.
Another remarkable monument is the Castello Svevo, also known as the "great castle" or "land", built by Frederick II, whose plant is trapezoidal and has sturdy square towers. Because of its construction materials were used by old walls and ruined monuments else. Abandoned by the Spaniards, it was turned into a prison by Joachim Murat in 1813, and since 1909 is used by the Navy. The castle was the naval base during both world wars, was also hosted here in 1943 the King Vittorio Emanuele III, who transformed the capital of Brindisi in Italy (10/9/43 - 11/2/44).
Coming to Brindisi from the sea you can admire the Aragonese Castle, best known as a strong sea. This is a building built in 1491 on the front of the port by Ferdinand I of Aragon to defend the city against attacks from the sea. The Aragonese Castle is comprised of two sections: the Red Castle, had to name the color of its bricks made from stones of the island, and the Fort, most recently used for accommodation of the garrisons.
Entering the harbor from the sea or walking on the pier one can not but notice the monument to the Crew of Italy created in 1933 with the typical form of rudder 54 meters high. At the base there is a chapel shrine in which they commemorated the fallen of World Wars and has kept the bell of the battleship "Benedetto Brin", which sank in the port of Brindisi in 1915.