Altamura bread, baked in wood-fired ovens from twice-milled durum semolina, was the first in Europe to earn DOP protection: the scent of its historic bakeries guides a visit better than any map. On the square, the cathedral Frederick II founded in 1232 — the only church he established in Puglia — displays a rose window and carved portal among the region's richest.
In the area's caves rests Altamura Man, the most complete Neanderthal skeleton ever found, and a few kilometres away dinosaurs left thousands of footprints in the Pontrelli quarry. Authentic Murgia, zero shop windows.
Near Altamura
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