What to see in Bari · La Casa di Mimì, Capurso

Bari Vecchia, between the old port and the new port

The historic San Nicola quarter lies within the ancient walls, on the peninsula between the city's two ports.

Next to it, from 1813 onwards, the Murat district grew up: the new town, laid out on a grid.

The relics of Saint Nicholas arrived from Myra, in Lycia, on 9 May 1087, brought by sixty-two sailors from Bari.

Since 1089 they have rested in the crypt of the Basilica, one of the most important monuments of Apulian Romanesque.

11 km from Capurso, about 13 minutes by car.

Built in the 12th and 13th centuries at Archbishop Rainaldo's behest, it stands on the ruins of the Byzantine cathedral.

Restoration work in the 1950s returned it to its late Apulian Romanesque form.

11 km from Capurso, about 13 minutes by car.

The first fortress, commissioned in 1132 by the Norman king Roger II, was destroyed in 1156.

In 1233 Frederick II ordered it to be rebuilt on the same foundations.

11 km from Capurso, about 13 minutes by car.

In Bari Vecchia, along Via dell'Arco Basso, orecchiette are traditionally made by hand in front of the houses.

The monumental seafront, including the stretch named after Nazario Sauro, dates from the 1920s and 1930s.

The Teatro Petruzzelli, opened in 1903 and devastated by fire in 1991, reopened in 2009.

The seafront is 10 km from Capurso, about 12 minutes by car.

The Basilica and the Cathedral are about 11 km away, the seafront and the Petruzzelli about 10.

Without traffic, the drive takes between 11 and 13 minutes.