Written on May 6: We've just arrived in Bari, the capitol city of the Puglia region, on the heel of the boot of Italy, after a long day of air travel: Portland-Amsterdam-Rome-Bari. Our Wilderness Travel tour, "Hiking Puglia and Calabria", starts tomorrow morning, but we took the afternoon to wander by ourselves around the city near our hotel. It's an interesting place.
Bari has a huge castle surrounded by a huge moat, near our hotel and near the port. It was a stormy day, and the looming clouds gave the castle - this is just one of the corners - a suitably ominous look.
One of Bari's main attractions is a large cathedral with Romanesque arches but Greek columns. When we visited, it was filled with hundreds of school-kids, listening more attentively to a lecture than might have been anticipated.
San Nicola seems to be the patron saint of Bari, about whom this poster was advertising some special event. I liked the irreverent background wall.
Many of the buildings in this part of Bari are very old, but rising above them are many TV antennas and cell towers.
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