In the heart of the old city of Bari, it is one of the most significant examples of Apulian Romanesque architecture. It is a pontifical basilica, its entrustment to a specific religious order, that is, directly to the Holy See.

Largo Abate Elia 13, 70122, Bari
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The basilica, considered one of the prototypes of the Romanesque-Apulian churches, stands isolated a short distance from the sea.

The salient façade, simple and majestic, is divided into three parts by pilasters, crowned by arches and opened at the top by mullioned windows and at the bottom by three portals, of which the median, with canopy on columns, is richly sculpted. Two severed bell towers, of different make, flank the facade. The sides are characterized by deep blind arches (above which run small loggias with hexaphores) and rich doors. Blind arches at the bottom and mullioned windows at the top animate the high heads of the transept and the continuous apse wall, decorated in the center by a large window.
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