Barion

Barion Hotel

Strada Statale 16 Per Brindisi Km 816, Torre a Mare, Bari, Puglia, 70126, Italy

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Some ruins we found not far from the port.Some ruins we found not far from the port.

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Travelling to Naples via Bari

by JoeSciortino

I am travelling to Naples in the second week of September arriving in Bari by
RyanAir and proceeding to Naples by train. Is there a shuttle bus from Bari Airport to the Station from where I can get the Naples train? Can you please help me?
Thanks

Re: Travelling to Naples via Bari

by leics

Yes.......even Ryanair does not fly to airports with no onward connections apart from taxis.

Bus info here:

http://www.aeroportidipuglia.it/default.asp?idlingua=2&idContenuto=281

As you want to get a train, I should think the few extra euro for the Tempesta bus would be worth spending.

http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/homepage_en.html

for train times, details and fares in English.

Re: Travelling to Naples via Bari

by JoeSciortino

Thanks a lot for your immediate reply!

Travel Tips for Bari

This is the real skyline

by Ronaldinho86

This is the south part of the Lungomare of Bari,which goes from the Borgo Murattiano,the city center,to San Giorgio.
Who stays in the harbour area can't see this part of the city.From the ships,it's possible to see only the big harbour area and north zone of the city(around the lighthouse),which aren't in the heart of Bari.

Bari has a very small but...

by dnwitte

Bari has a very small but remarkably good art museum, the Pinacoteca, tucked away on an upper floor of some sort of municipal building on the big highway along the harbor. Go see them. They'll be glad to see you.

Magnificent Bari

by BlueLlama

I came to be in Bari by accident, really. It seemed like the best way to get to Albania, a trip I'd been planning for some time. In the event Albania didn't come off and I ended up spending a little longer in Bari than I'd imagined.

It is a city you can easily spend a few days in and I'm glad I didn't use it as just a stopping-off place. In fact, it seems suffer from two misconceptions. The first was my own mistake, that the best thing about Bari is its connections to other places. The other is that it's more than a bit dodgy.

"Bari: gateway to the Balkans"

We spent our first morning on the doomed Albania attempt. Funny really, because we should have realised earlier that fate was against us. The very helpful man at the Tirrenia Navigazione window at the port was completely amazed at our desire to see Albania at all. While the computer refused first to connect to the booking system and then print out the tickets, he urged us to go upstairs to where the tickets for Montenegro and Croatia are sold. We went up. It was closed. We came down. He tried another approach: stay in Puglia. So much to see! Not like Albania, dirty and depressing. Although, he reflected, there are knock-off clothes and shoes to buy. Everyone on the boat will be Albanian.

Well, we did finally get our tickets, by which time we'd been joined in the empty ticket office by a couple of Albanian families and groups, children excited about the trip. Our friend at Tirrenia wished us luck. But after a failed attempt to get hotel reservations and several calls to Tirana, we ended up trudging in the boiling heat back to the terminal for a refund.

This time the port with its various ferries and liners at anchor looked less thrilling and more mocking. During the day, the port is largely calm at this time of year. Not many boats depart during the day and there was little activity, just quiet ticket offices and the odd car arrived early for the evening sailings.

But as we left the port we really began our Puglia adventure. And another day at least in Bari awaited.

Walking out into the sunshine, we had no idea where to begin, but at least we knew we could spend some time in the city, which had looked a lot more promising than the guidebooks let on. We went back to the maze of streets of Bari Vecchia, which we'd strode past earlier that morning, and spent some time really seeing Bari itself.

The small streets lead onto piazze, the largest of which are flanked by the city's colossal white churches. The first we visited was the basicila of San Nicola, the saint who is Father Christmas. All white from the outside, the inside was more ornate. And the best is in the crypt where the saints remains are housed in a glass and gilt casket. The shrine is the only place I've ever really seen relics worshipped, and one woman stayed praying on her knees on the stone flagging the whole time we stayed. There are also ancient columns, one rescued from the sea after centuries under water.

Perhaps I was spoilt after that, but the other churches didn't seem so extraordinary. Not that they aren't impressive.

We didn't notice much in the way of danger - see my general info tip about police presence! - either in the old or the new parts of the city. It felt as safe as most large Italian cities and more so than certain ones. People were polite, helpful.

And there is plenty to do for a couple of days. The old town deserves a few hours at least and that doesn't include the churches and cathedrals. I found the basilica of San Nicola impressive among all the religious buildings I've seen in Italy.

Bari

by Bjorgvin


Bari (Lat. Barium, Icel. Bár) has a long and interesting history because the site may have been inhabited for more than 3500 years. It is now the capital of Bari province, Puglia region, southeastern Italy. The Romans called it Barium, and it became an important port as early as 180 BC. When the Roman Empire in the west collapsed the city was run over by the Goths, the Lombards and then the Saracens, but it was conquered back by the Byzantines and was a governor´s seat for a while. The Normans (Roger Guiscard) captured the city in 1071. In the age of the crusades the port of Bari and its neighbors (Barletta, Brindisi etc.) became enormously important as large armies of crusaders embarked from its port. Bari was a part of the Norman kingdom of Sicily and then an independent duchy for a while, but it passed to the kingdom of Naples in 1558 (The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies) and became part of the new Italian kingdom in 1860.

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