Bovino

Bovino sits at 646 meters on a terrace of the Monti Dauni above the Cervaro valley, thirty-five kilometers southwest of Foggia. The Roman name Vibinum is recorded by Pliny and Polybius; in 323 BC the town fought the Samnite Wars on the Roman side. The Norman count Drogo built the castle in the eleventh century, Frederick II expanded it in the thirteenth, and the Guevara dukes turned it into a residential palace in the seventeenth century, inhabited by the family until 1961.

The coffered ceilings and the hanging garden hosted Torquato Tasso, Giovan Battista Marino, Maria Theresa of Austria, and Pope Benedict XIII. The concattedrale of Santa Maria Assunta, originally built in 1231 in Apulian Romanesque style, was destroyed by the 1930 Irpinia earthquake and reconsecrated in 1936. Eight hundred sculpted stone portals across the centro storico are the work of local masters; the town carries both Borghi più belli and Bandiera Arancione signals.

From Bari / Brindisi (BRI), about 1h 40m by car.

Naples / Salerno (NAP) is about 2 hours away.

By car from the centre of Bari 1h 43m, Salerno 2 hours or Naples 2 hours.

There is a railway station in the comune, so you can arrive without a car.

Coming from Bari or Naples?

Coming by train into Foggia? Bovino is about 38 minutes away by road.

Every town within reach of Bari / Brindisi airport.