Churches and places of worship Country of Bari

Built in Romanesque style in 1100 it is the most important religious building in the city. Dedicated to the city's patron Saint Corrado. The architectural style is similar to all the buildings built by the Benedictines with a pyramidal structures.

Among the natural fissures extends, in the karst rocks (Tuff), the famous cave-church dedicated to Archangel Michael that was the first cathedral of Gravina (sec. X).

Located on the left side of the “Gravina” stream, it is a very suggestive rock complex in which the sacred and the profane seem to merge. Primitive seat, perhaps, of pagan cults, it later became the oldest symbol of Marian worship.

With three naves divided by columns, shows polychrome altars of early eighteenth century. Works of art: baptismal font by Pope Benedict XIII. the choir of late ' 500; wooden ceiling decorated with gold. In the sacristy a finely carved wooden bar (1561).

The Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta was built in the seventeenth century at the behest of the Jesuits and is dedicated to their founder Ignatius of Loyola. Inside it are kept the relics of the patron saint St. Conrad of Bavaria. The façade houses inside a window the statue depicting Saint Ignatius of Loyola, but there are also other works, such as the Sixteenth Century Mariae Dormitio and the canvas of the Assumption of Mary of Corrado Giaquinto.

The church built between 1926 and 1927 reproduces the features of the typical trulli of the district. It has a Greek cross plan and a dome 21 meters high.

The Sanctuary of Madonna della Grazia was built in 1602 as the residence of the bishop and seminarians. Its structure follows the logic of building the Tuscan order, with 12 oval stone medallions depicting the apostles. In 1980 the church was restored, completely transforming the structure of the building into that of a basilica. The bell tower dates back to the 19th century.

The Sanctuary of Madonna della Grotta is located in the former Benedictine Abbey of the 11th century built in the territory of Modugno. According to some documents from 1189, the place where the Sanctuary stands was the hermitage where San Corrado Bavaro lived. Inside the Sanctuary there are fourteenth-century frescoes and a sculptural group dating from the fourteenth — fifteenth century that depict the Pietà.

The Abbey Madonna della Scala is located in the Municipality of Noci, not far from the town. The building was built in 1930, on the same structure where the Benedictine monastery was first located. In 1952 the building was restored.

Example of Apulian Romanesque architecture is one of the symbols of the city and houses the relics of St. Nicholas, stolen by some sailors from Turkey in 1087

It was erected in the eleventh century, after the destruction of the city occurred in 1156. Enriched from the famous mosaic of the sixth century AD is one of the best examples of Apulian Romanesque style

An architectonic complex constituted of an ensamble of elements offering an armonic beauty. The original romanic-pugliese style is also named "federiciano" for the insights of Federico II.

Funeral chapel of the Orsini family. In the presbytery perfect reduction of the dome of St. Peter, stands the altar by Francesco Guarino and a central altar inlaid in polychrome marble. The side altars in bicromes marble (s. XVII) are valuable