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| We arrived at lunch time Saturday and had a great fish lunch, including this cooked squid |
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| Sea Urchins |
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| There were tons of other plates of fish before dessert which was a sporca-mousse, delicious, melted in your mouth. |
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| Strada arco basso where lots of Baresi ladies make pasta in their homes and sell it out in front on these tables. |
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| There were lots of orecchietti on sale |
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| where we bought our pasta for our primo (first course) for easter dinner |
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| street in Bari vecchia |
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| rose window of the cathedral |
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| plastic coverings come out over the laundry when rain threatens |
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| Bari Cathedrale (di San Sabino) with some Saturday sun! Begun in the first half of the 11th century, Apulian Romanesque style |
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| part of the side of the cathedrale. it is very large |
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| inside of San Nicola Church |
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| The lovely catthedra (chair) from 1098 in San Nicola |
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| lovely crypt of San Nicola |
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| The relics of San Nicola, the patron saint of Bari, the roots for the modern Saint Nick. i.e Santa Claus. Relics were removed by the Baresi from Myra in Turkey, arrived in Bari on May 9th,1087. they wanted their city to become more prestigious after it had lost some of its power. |
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| crypt has gorgeous ancient columns with byzantine sculpted capitals |
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| San Nicola |
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| The Minchilli family relaxing |
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| outside of San Nicola |
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| Side of San Nicola, with view straight to the sea |
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| the travelers |
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| view of Bari port |
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| along the lungomare |
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| getting ready to dye the eggs |
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| our finished products |
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| view from Domenico's mom's window. Great view of port, the cathedral and the petruzzi theatre |
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| view from window |
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| a buona pasqua egg |
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| ruins under the cathedral, recently opened. There are Roman and early Christian mosaics, ceramics from 14th -16th century, an ancient early middle ages church (9th-11th century) as well as medieval ruins. Great site. |
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| 6th century mosaic with a prayer, called mosaic of Timoteo, very large about 90 square meters. |
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| Timoteo's mosaic |
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| remains of a Roman road |
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| Scavi (ruins) below the church, walls of prior churches and roman road at the end |
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| remains of a fresco |
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| a piece of the byzantine wall |
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| squid, part of timoteo's mosaic which displayed a lot of aquatic animals on the mosaic's border |
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| octopus |
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| our Easter table, set with antipasti |
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| our post Easter dinner passaggiata (walk) along the lungomare |
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| Bari |
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| one of many fascist era buildings on the lungomare |
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| Bari's castle svevo |
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| one of our many Easter desserts |
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| pane e pomodoro beach where we walked to after Easter dinner |
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| a 1900's copy of a 1500's "Venetian" palace. The Venetians saved the Barese from the Saracens in 1002 and are important to the city. |
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| view from Domenico's mom's apt at night |
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| old city was very quiet on Pasquetta (day after Easter) |
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| back side of cathedral (ruins are underneath this area) |
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| small cathedral museum. had a wonderful "exultet" dating from the 9th century which was a parchment with prayers and song on it along with wonderful paintings. (no photos allowed) |
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| remains of a fresco in cathedral |
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| inside cathedral on morning after Easter, very quiet |
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| view toward port with cruise ships in port, ruins of the church of San Pietro in front |
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| pretty quiet corner of old Bari |
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was hard not to take photos of the water!
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| center piece |
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