Conversano Guided Tour – GT/CON01

2h30min    from 2 people    from €125 per person  Monday to Sunday  9:00am/11:00am/2:00pm/4:00pm/6:00pm   Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German

Included: professional guide   Excluded: transfer, lunch, dinner, drinks, monuments entrances, personal expenses    Location: Conversano

The heart of the city is made up of three urban centres, each characteristic and to be explored slowly on foot. In Corso Domenico Morea the wind mercilessly sweeps the buildings, caressing them with intense force. The view from this hill today is excellent, with the sea not far away and the green countryside opening up all around. A strategic lookout point, very important in antiquity, especially from the Torre Maggiore of the Aragonese Castle of Conversano. Flowers everywhere, stone and small alleys that open onto decorated balconies surround Santa Maria Assunta. A fresco from the school of Simone Martini: “The Bishop of Itri presents the Basilica to the Madonna”. The image of the Madonna della Fonte, beloved patron saint of the city, is also very intense. It is therefore not a curious coincidence to discover so many of the Conversano women bear the name Fonte or Fontina! Together with the wooden Crucifix on the altar, from the 15th century, it is the only piece saved from the fire that devastated the Basilica in 1911. A direct link with the past, a must see in Conversano. Between alleys and slopes, galleries and covered passages, walking inside Conversano becomes a pictorial journey. You have the constant impression of being in a film, protagonist of idyllic scenes of rural daily life. Conversano is a wonderful city of art, its refinement and its soul are those of a village. Visiting the surroundings of Bari often gives this magnetic impression.