Location: Taranto
Top Things to do in Taranto
Top 10 Points of Interest & Landmarks in Taranto, Puglia
Taranto (Italian pronunciation: [ˈtaːranto] ( listen); early Italian: Tarento from Latin: Tarentum; Ancient Greek: Τάρᾱς Tarās; Modern Greek: Τάραντας Tarantas; Tarantino "Tarde") is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base.
Restaurants in Taranto
1. Palazzo Carducci Artenisio
2. Canale D'aiedda
3. Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 15 reviews
La Chiesa Madonna della Scala, consacrata ai santi Simone e Giuda, fu edificata nel 1181 da parte dell'Arcivescovo Basilio II Paleano, patrizio tarantino che, a proprie spese, provvide cosi a creare un diritto patronale per i suoi eredi. Nel 1881 la Chiesa fu donata alla Curia e adibita ad Oratorio fino al 1950. Verso gli anni '50 essa fu sconsacrata ed adibita a circolo culturale.
4. Ex Convento di S Francesco
5. Corso Due Mari
6. Lungomare Vittorio Emanuele III
7. Chiesa di Sant'Anna in Civitanova
8. La Chiesa di San Michele
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4.5 based on 15 reviews
9. Spartan Museum of Taranto - Hypogeum Bellacicco
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4.5 based on 488 reviews
The hypogeum Bellacicco is a hypogeum structure. Its peculiarity which makes this structure unique all over the historic and artistic landscape of Taranto is that in it we can find records of all the ages and the historical periods dating back from Taranto's foundation by the Spartans up to the XVII century, date of the building of the homonymous noble palace. The hypogeum is divided into 4 rooms (5-8 metres hight) and shows an extension of 800 square metres and a depth which reaches, at the lovest levels (4 altogher) 16 metres under the street basement and 4 metres under the sea level. The structure, in central position as regards the isle of the historic centre, represents a crossroad with the other hypogeum structures of the ancient village that constitues, on the whole, the system of "Taranto Underground" that reaches and radiates just from the hypogeum de Beaumont Bonelli Bellacicco. Thought it is difficult to set a precise date of building and the different historic developments of the structure, all the historical, archeological and geological studies report as date of the first building of the hypogeum the period of foundation of Taranto city when the Spartans extracted the first rock banks to build the first constructions and fortifications. Later this area of the historical centre will be called Caves Area.The structure is private property and privately run without public financing. It currently houses the Cultural Association "Filonide" and it is the only hypogeum structure fully restored and accessible in the historical centre. The restoration of the structure (lasted 6 years) was realized by the family funds of its current owners (family Bellacicco) without public or private financing. In 2007 it received the acknoledgement as remarkable cultural heritage by the Minister for cultural heritage and activities by the apposition of a display at the entrance of the structure. The hypogeum is object of different degree thesis in Italy and in the U.S.A and it is a container of cultural and artistic events of different kind
Reviewed By J7802PTpaolob
This place offers the opportunity to meet the ancient Spartans and to see how they lived and what they loved! Dott. Bellacicco has done a remarkable job in bringing this place to light and making it available for everyone. I am so glad of having been in such a unique place!
10. Tempio di Poseidon
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 198 reviews
Reviewed By VadimM67 - Murmansk, Russia
These two Doric columns of the Temple of Poseidon are all that remains of ancient Tarentum, once the largest Greek colony in southern Italy. The temple was founded presumably in the VI century BC. the name of Poseidon is also presumably, there are versions that it is dedicated to Artemis or Persephone. Very little is left... The merit of destroying the temple belongs, as usual, to the Christians. Having lost the ancient construction technologies, they dismantled the temple of Poseidon for the construction of their churches. It is a shame that at the beginning of the XVIII century there were 10 columns, but they were dismantled for the construction of another Church. Only these two beautifully illuminated columns remain. We were lucky that they were clearly visible from the windows of our Cuore de Borgo apartments.
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