In the tax register of 1508 the Terra di Ruoti is recorded as uninhabited: epidemics had driven the people out into the fields. It was the count of Muro, Jacopo Alfonso Ferilli, who put it back on its feet: in 1511 he let in a colony of Albanians, Spanish and French families followed, and by 1561 there were 91 hearths.
Between 1940 and 1943 seven German Jewish refugees, families with children among them, were sent here under forced residence: the Allied advance freed them in September 1943. The name is still a puzzle: some derive it from the Latin rotum, land fit for ploughing, others from the Albanians who used to gather in a ring. There are 3,542 residents.
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Next up: Saint Roch, the plague of 1651 and the chapel of Spinosa, Monday 16 August
Nearest airport: Bari Palese, 102 km away
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📅 Every year, on 16 August and the first Sunday of September
Ruoti celebrates Saint Roch on 16 August and the first Sunday of September; the chapel where his cult began, in the Spinosa district, was built by the feudal lord during the plague of 1651.
chiesa matrice di San Nicola di Bari The works foreman died in 1802 falling from the dome he was building. 
chiesa del Calvario In 1874 a bell for Ruoti's mother church was cast in the space beside it. 
chiesa di san Vito An altar of Abetina stone and, on the vault, Saint Roch painted above a view of Ruoti. 
Palazzo del Principe Built in 1630 on top of the chapel of San Sebastiano, withdrawn from worship to make room for it. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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