Italian itineraries: Bovino, Foggia. Visiting southern Italy

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Located at the border between Campania and Puglia Bovino has played a strategic role in the course of the past.
Traces of its past are visible in the ancient village was destroyed and rebuilt several times, which is characterized by the harmony of the urban structure and the state of conservation, on the whole good, materials, shapes and colors typical of its tradition. You can still see large areas of paving stone river, stone houses with traditional coverage embrici, vaulted brick, aristocratic palaces with their Romanelli and beautiful courtyards, a number of impressive stone portals (ne were counted about eight hundred), the work of teachers and local stonecutters testimony of the role assumed by the town in secoli.Le white houses, the steep stairs of the lanes, the green countryside surrounding the picturesque complete framework, which is fragile beauty, having to defend themselves from alterations, always lurking, who ignores the meaning of history, who seems endless: as demonstrated by the remains of Roman city walls (Portella in the district), the remains of mosaics, statues of Hercules,
anthropomorphic stele and the many exhibits held in the civic museum.

The village contains within it the seven churches, among which the most important basilica cathedral, whose façade in 1231 the master Zano, from Gaul, the impressed primitive gothic style that opened the season in Puglia Romanesque
The Ducal Palace, inhabited until 1961 by descendants of Guevara, had its best time (in the seventeenth century) one of the most beautiful patrician residences of the south. In his saloons to the caisson and its beautiful roof garden, they found hospitality Torquato Tasso, Giovan Battista Marino, Maria Theresa of Austria, Pope Benedict XIII.
But the old town contains other treasures. Among the sacred buildings: the church of S. Peter, an interesting example of Romanesque architecture with Byzantine elements grafted on residual Roman
The private residences are almost all with splendid portals, symbol of power and pride of the local nobility.
Not bad for a town unknown to the most! So good reason to visit, I did not believe my eyes when I was there!