In contrada San Nicola, at the spot they call la Gloriosa, the last pieces of a Roman aqueduct are left. It is said to have been built in 143 by Herodes Atticus to bring water to Canosa: eighteen miles of conduit, of which almost nothing can be seen today.
Around the eighth century some Basilian monks settled in the Valle dei Greci and made the hamlet of San Lorenzo there; the peasants who followed them dug their houses into the sandy ground, and those caves can still be seen. The hamlet then split in two, and the part called Mons-Meliorus, the better mount, is the town of today. There are 1,725 residents.
chiesa di Santo Stefano · santuario della Madonna del Bosco · chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta and 2 more
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Next up: Saint Stephen and the Madonna del Bosco, Montemilone's two co-patrons, Saturday 26 December
Nearest airport: Bari Palese, 68 km away
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📅 Every year, on 26 December and 11-13 August
Montemilone celebrates Saint Stephen on 26 December and the Madonna del Bosco on 11, 12 and 13 August; the Virgin's 13th-century wooden statue, kept in the mother church, is carried to the sanctuary precisely during the August patronal feast.
chiesa di Santo Stefano Built in 1861 over a Gothic church, it keeps a wooden Madonna of the late thirteenth century. 
santuario della Madonna del Bosco Raised by Basilian monks between 1187 and 1198 over the grotto of an old oratory. 
chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta From 1959 to 2014 it was the town library; then it went back to being a church. 
parco della Rimembranza A bronze eagle with a broken wing tops the war memorial of 1925. 
piazza degli emigranti The mural «Il ritorno di Giustino» was unveiled with the square itself in 1984. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Montemilone, but an easy day trip away.
