What to See in Fasano: Attractions & Sights

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Chiesa di San Francesco da Paola Churches
The seventeenth-century Minim church in Fasano, beside the hospital, with a painted dome and an 18th-century …
Chiesa di San Giuseppe Churches
The twentieth-century church beside Fasano's mother church, now a cultural hall, with Tiffany windows.
Chiesa di San Nicola Churches
The sixteenth-century church on piazza Ciaia in Fasano, at the heart of the patronal feast and the Santi Medi…
Chiesa di Sant'Antonio Abate Churches
The Observant friars' church in Fasano, with its dome, onion-spired bell tower and frescoed 1600s cloister.
Torrione Fogge Archaeology · More places of interest
The last of the four towers of Fasano's walls, guarding the south gate and overlooking the Fogge valley.
Museo della Casa alla Fasanese Museums · More places of interest
A sixteenth-century tuff dwelling in the centre of Fasano, with main room, alcove, camerino and mezzanine.

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Torrione Fogge

The Torrione delle Fogge is the only survivor of the four towers that once marked the corners of Fasano's town walls. It guarded the south gate, the town's oldest, called the «buco» or, in dialect, «caravutto», after the drain that opened in the wall and is now buried, and it looked out over the Fogge valley.
What to see
The fogge, from the Latin fovea, were very deep and large public cisterns that collected the rainwater brought by the streams running down from the hills: they were the town's great water reserve. In the nineteenth century, when the area had become malarial, they were covered over, and the site was turned into a large green space, today the Parco della Rimembranza.
The positions of the other three towers are known: the eastern one, called the clock tower because it carried the public clock, stood at the corner of piazza Ciaia; the western one was on corso Perrini, behind the mother church; the northern one, at the corner of corso Vittorio Emanuele and today's via Fogazzaro, was pulled down in the nineteenth century.
Visiting
The small tower is private property and has been closed since 2013: a violent cloudburst badly damaged its foundations. It is seen from outside.
Our editors' tip
Before it closed, the tower was the workshop of a master blacksmith from Fasano, who worked iron there by the old methods. According to tradition, it was in the Fogge valley that the people of Fasano won the decisive clash against the invading Turks.
Museo della Casa alla Fasanese

The Museo della Casa alla Fasanese is an old dwelling in the historic centre of Fasano, behind the town hall, on piazza Mercato Vecchio. The house dates from the sixteenth century: over time it was absorbed into Palazzo Pezzolla, and it escaped the demolitions of the late eighteenth century that made room for the square. Today it is the home of the cultural association «U'mbracchie», founded in July 2010 to regenerate the old centre; in December of the same year the town entrusted the house to it, and after cleaning and furnishing the museum opened on 17 July 2011.
What to see
The casa alla fasanese is a type of dwelling built in tuff from the late sixteenth century, designed to use every bit of space. You step straight from the street into the main room; from here opens the alcove, the parents' sleeping area, entered through an elegant arch and closed when needed by a curtain. Then comes the camerino, the room for the children when there were few of them, and finally the mezzanine, for larger broods, reached by a movable wooden ladder.
Inside are displayed objects and utensils of everyday life in the past.
Visiting
The museum also serves as a tourist welcome point for the old centre. Openings and times should be checked with the association that runs it.
Our editors' tip
The association's name, «U'mbracchie», probably comes from the Latin umbraculum, shade: the same shade found in the narrow lanes of Fasano's old quarter.