Andria - Alta Murgia

Andria (BT)

Alta Murgia - Apulia (Italy)

From the road for Andria appears in the distance, standing alone on a hill, a mysterious white stone building with a low thicket of olive trees at its foot: Castel del Monte.
It is a magical construction octagonal by Frederick II, called the Stupor Mundi.
Stop the shadow of the towers of this monument, UNESCO declared in 1996, and looking at the sea in the distance, gives us back in time to the days when the emperor traveled these places with his falcons.
The city of Andria, large and modern, has its heart nell'austera Norman Cathedral with the Bell Tower.
In Old Town, there are interesting monuments: the Palazzo Ducale with the massive columned portal, the Gothic arches of the cloister of the church of San Francesco, the Port of St. Andrew which has seen Frederick II and his return to the Court of the Fourth Crusade, when the lords of the city renewed loyalty to the Emperor after the rebellion.
This law is carved in stone, the inscription reads, and the deep bond of loyalty to the emperor city.
Visiting this city is to retrace the paths of time, winding streets lined hours from an old bakery, now a stone fountain.