Polignano a Mare is an Italian town of 17 477 inhabitants in the metropolitan city of Bari in Puglia. The oldest part of the town stands on a rocky spur overlooking the Adriatic Sea 33 kilometers south of the capital. The country’s economy is essentially based on tourism and horticulture.

Polignano a Mare, 70044, Bari
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The country has a very ancient history. As in the whole area of the south east of Bari, traces of human presence have been found in Polignano too, dating back to the Neolithic period, in the hamlet of Santa Barbara.

According to some scholars, the ancient Greek city of Neapolis could be one of the two colonies that, in the 4th century BC, Dionysius II of Syracuse founded on the Adriatic coast. As mentioned, the most evident signs of the presence of man date back to the Neolithic, in the area of Santa Barbara (6th – 5th millennium BC), and in the Manfredi Hypogeum (4th millennium BC), one of the most significant settlements in central Puglia.
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