Italian itineraries: Ruvo di Puglia. Visiting southern Italy
Ruvo di Puglia is a town in the province of Bari Accessible by SS98, is a small country but rich in monumenti.La Cathedral of Ruvo di Puglia is one of the most famous examples of Apulian Romanesque. It was built between the twelfth and thirteenth century, with various subsequent amendments. The facade is a hut with three portals, the central largest and enriched, and two more small and poor lateral portals. The facade is decorated with numerous figures: arcs concentric with the depiction of the Last Supper and Christian symbols, telamons governing the entire facade, columns richly decorated with capitals, griffins, a mullioned window with bas dell'Arcangelo and a rosette formed by 12 rays that culminate in a smaller window, above the rose window is the "its installation" is somewhat obscure and unknown, and at the height of the facade of the Christ Redeemer statue. The interior is divided into three naves and a transept with transverse nave. The nave is the largest and is surrounded by a top gallery that overlapping two rows of columns, each one different. At the bottom of the nave is a beautiful ciborium made nell'800 inspiration to the basilica of St. Nicola Bari.Il a palace Jatta stands in the heart of nineteenth Ruvo as good example of private building stand out in Piazza Bovio isolated with a sober and harmonious facade worked in local stone. The building, erected on a wide area that "Palmenti in Purgatory" previously belonged to a religious confraternity, was commissioned in 1840 the architect Luigi bitontino Castellucci (1798-1877) (Cristiano Chieppa: Louis Castellucci and architecture of 'Ottocento in Terra di Bari, Schena, 2006.) by Giulia Viesti residence (with a few rooms to be assigned to the museum), his son John Jatta junior, grandson of the judge seized of the forum ruvestino Naples John Jatta senior. Formed under the Neapolitan school, a pupil of Antonio Anita, Castellucci is the author of numerous buildings and mansions of neoclassical style in Terra di Bari, currently is home to an important museo.Bello the medieval old town and the road. Enough for a trip?