Bed & Breakfast Bari Murat
The Bed and Breakfast 'Bari Murat' is a safe, clean and friendly B&B in the heart of Bari. TVs in all rooms, a comfortable living room where breakfast is served, an internet access point, a little library with books on habits, manners, curiosities, legends, historical stories and fanciful tales about Italy and its famous characters
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Bari is a town and comune in Italy, the capital of the province of Bari and of the Apulia (or, in Italian, Puglia) region, on the Adriatic sea. It is the second economic centre of southern Italy and is well known as a port and university city, as well as the city of Saint Nicholas of Bari, the original of Santa Claus. The city itself has a decreasing population of 328,458 (2004) over 116 km˛, while the fast-growing urban area counts 700,000 inhabitants over 203 km˛. Another 500.000 people live in the metropolitan area. Bari consists of four different parts. On the north, the closely built old town on the peninsula between two modern harbours, with the splendid Basilica of San Nicola (Saint Nicholas), the Cathedral of San Sabino (1035 - 1171) and the Castello Svevo of Frederick II, is now also one of the major nightlife districts. The Murattiano section to the south, the modern heart of the city, is laid out on a rectangular plan with a promenade on the sea, and the major shopping district (the via Sparano and via Argiro). The more modern city surrounding this center was the result of chaotic development during the 1960s and 1970s over the old suburbs that had developed along roads splaying outwards from gates in the city walls. Finally, the outer suburbs have been in rapid development during the 1990s. The city has a redeveloped airport named after Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla Airport, with connections to many european destinations.
Bari is now mostly a modern industrial city. Neverthless, some of Italy's most interesting and undiscovered areas exist within the province of Bari and the region of Puglia. Bari itself is a proud and hard-working port city with strong traditions based on its Saint Nicholas who, as the patron of foreigners, created a sense of open-mindedness amongst its residents towards those from overseas which persists to this day. Bari is known throughout Italy for its strong, often crude, spoken dialect, particularly in the Old Town and for its culinary traditions, in particular Orecchiette with Cime di rape - Little ear-shaped pasta with turnip tops.
