I.P.S.I.A.“G. Galilei”

Gravina in Puglia, S.S.96 Km 72,100

I.T.C.S.“V. Bachelet”

Gravina in Puglia, Via V. Bachelet s.n.

ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE 70024 - GRAVINA IN PUGLIA (BA)

Activity 1 : february 2008a.s. 2007/2008

Presentazione Regione

• Alunni:• Anacleto Fedele

• Brescia Marina

• Ferrara Vincenzo

• Matera Girolamo

• Liguigli Maria Grazia

• Loverre Emilia

• Ninivaggi Andrea

• Puzziferri Francesco

• Ricciardelli Maria Teresa

• Docenti:• Giovanniello S.

• Simone A.

• Calabrese F.

• Giorgio R.

ISTITUTO TECNICO COMMERCIALE “ VITTORIO BACHELET “ Gravina di Puglia

Gravina in Puglia is a town located in the region Puglia. land of passage. Puglia, stretching out beside the sea, a peninsula in the peninsula,land between two seas, balcony over the Mediterranean, crossed by a thousand routes, which remind us of memorable pilgrimages in myth and history. The mysterious ones made by the Pelasgics, the mythical landfalls of the Cretans and the Greeks, the literary voyages of the Aeneid and the Odyssey, but also the historical migrations of the Japigi, Dauni, Peucezi and the Messapi

Puglia

Coast

BARI

CATTEDRALE

BARI

LUNGOMARE

TRANI

Trulli Houses in Alberobello

The caves of Castellana

Castel del Monte

TARANTO

The bridge

Lecce piazza Duomo

Gravina in Puglia (Gravina in Apulia) is an italian municipality in the Southern Italian Province of Bari, site along a river of the same name in the Western Murgia geographical area of Apulia.It is the seat of the Parco Nazionale dell’Alta Murgia (National Park).43.671 inhabitantsGravina plays a crucial role in Apulia because of its unique landscape – calcareous land, caves, and terraces – that made it the seat for the National Park of Murgia (Parco Nazionale Alta Murgia).City coat of arms: Grana dat et VinaGravina is the place of Grain and Grape par excellence; in fact, the emperor Federico II coined the city crest.Former Magna Graecia colony Gravina was founded by the Greeks; indeed, several pots, vases, and antiques were found in the graves – archaeological sites – which are part of Gravina’s territory. You can find in the thown museum “Ettore Pomarici Santomasi” an exhibition of all archaeological relics.The Romans conquered Gravina in 305 b.C., indeed the Appian Way goes through the town and links Rome to Brindisi

Gravina in Puglia (Gravina in Apulia)

Gravina was founded by the Greeks during the colonization of Greece Greater, as a polis with the right of a mint of his own. The Romans conquered it after the 3rd Samnite War (305 BC). The Via Appia, which linked Rome to Brindisi, passed through Gravina. The ruins of Frederick II's castle in Gravina.Later it was ruled by Byzantines, Lombards ans North African Muslims.The city was the site of a Norman countship in the Hauteville Kingdom of Sicily and in the later Kingdom of Naples. A famous count of the former was Gilbert, who was sent by his cousin, the Queen regent Margaret of Navarre to the peninsula to combat the Holy Roman Emperor. In the latter period it was the hereditary fief of John, Duke of Durazzo.From 1386 to 1816 it was a fief of the Orsini family: the pope Benedicit XIII (Pietro Francesco Orsini) was born here in 1649. The feudal oppression led to numerous riots, in particular from 1789 until the unification of Italy.Gravina was partly destroyed by Allied bombings during World War II.

The name stem from the motto given to the city by Emperor Frederick II, Grana dat et vina (Latina: "It gives grain and

wine").Gravina in Puglia (Gravèine)

The ruins of Frederick II's castle in Gravina