Trani has been defined one of the most beautiful cities in Italy. It offers for tourists and visitors historical buildings, museums, gardens, funs, one of the more suggestive tourist harbors and many shops.

Origins of the name

The first historical document in which the city shows up on the maps, goes up again to the IV century with the name of TURENUM.
Trani belongs to the region Puglia, it is wet from the Adriatic sea. The climate during the whole year is extremely pleasant and mild. This city in the economic life, artistic, politics and judicial of Puglia, it has always dressed again a high-class role.
In the centuries XI and XII his lived periods of authentic splendor for the traffic with the Middle East, his port it became one of the most important of the Adriatic. Trani navy and commercial center it ended up rising to the rank of principal city of the province, not only center of the political-administrative organ of the Earth in Bari but for civil custom and for the intense cultural life that favors' the formation of a true intellectual middle class.

Urbanism structure

It introduces list in three parts: ancient zone, modern and city garden.
The ancient zone has been respected in the time with the characteristic suggestives of the preserved monumental buildings in the time. The modern zone is rich of ample planted with trees plazas. The city garden includes the coast that brings to "Colonna", villas and attractive blocks with ample gardens that it justifies the name of it.
This look panoramic datum in the city, rich of works of art, suggestive natural beauty, traditions of the past, hospitable and hard-working that hands his artistic memory to the visitor, confident in deserved recognitions in every sign, apparent of liking and of human color.

Monuments

Trani raises a Cathedral that is tall as an acropolis and a tower that it measures the distance of it from the sky. The cathedral is not only a Romanesque monument, but it is the Queen of the cathedrals of Puglia. It worthily symbolizes the most fortunate period of the millennial life of the city testimony of artistic relief.
Marvelous demonstration of art is the famous Castle Swabian, wanted by Federico II. The artistic school, verified to the light of incomparable documents of capable sculptors as Anseramo. Other works of Barisano for the bronze doors of the cathedral. Numerous the suggestive churches especially in the historical center and particularly in the ancient Jewish district.

Entertainments

100 meters away from the residence there are numerous shops of typical souvenir and it boast an animate nighttime life. To the evening the Port is characterized by vivacious colors, rich of cafe, pub, bars to the open one, special beers, yogurt, croissants, pizza, ice creams, restaurants with the specialties to marinate, local from dance, religious parties, recreating that special atmosphere that wakes up again memoirs of the beautiful time that it was. The landscape typical of the city of the south that relaxes the body and the mind. Famous it is the Stone of Trani and his savory Muscat, the leader of the typical products of Puglia. For the lovers of sail it is possible to rent yatch to sail and motor yacht.