Day trips

Day trips from Bari

25 towns within 90 minutes

Closest first. Casamassima is 22 minutes out. Drive times are computed on real roads, so they are a fair estimate rather than a promise about traffic.

Casamassima
Province: Bari · 230 m
22 minutes from Bari. The blue town of the Murge, twenty kilometers south of Bari, its centro storico painted with copper-blue lime after the 1658 plague spared its residents.
Acquaviva delle Fonti
Province: Bari · 300 m
30 minutes from Bari. A Murge town at 300 meters between Bari and the Itria valley, named for its springs and a DOP red onion.
Sammichele di Bari
Province: Bari · 280 m
30 minutes from Bari. A Murge town at 280 meters founded in 1609, anchored by the Caracciolo castle and famous for the zampina pork sausage.
Giovinazzo
Province: Bari · 7 m
31 minutes from Bari. An Adriatic fishing port twenty kilometers northwest of Bari, with a Norman cathedral and a Bronze Age dolmen in the agro inland.
Conversano
Province: Bari · 219 m
36 minutes from Bari. A pre-Murge hill town at 219 meters, three centuries seat of the Acquaviva counts, with the abbey-monastery once called the Wonder of Puglia.
Polignano a Mare
Province: Bari · 24 m
36 minutes from Bari. The Adriatic cliff town thirty kilometers south of Bari, built on a twenty-metre limestone bluff, birthplace of Domenico Modugno.
Bisceglie
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 16 m
38 minutes from Bari. An Adriatic port town between Trani and Molfetta, named for Roman watchtowers, with five dolmens around it and a Norman cathedral begun in 1073.
Trani
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 7 m
38 minutes from Bari. The Adriatic port whose pink-white Romanesque cathedral stands on the water, built for a Greek pilgrim who died here in 1094.
Cassano delle Murge
Province: Bari · 341 m
39 minutes from Bari. A Murge foothills town at 341 meters at the gate of the Alta Murgia park, with the 1,300-hectare Foresta Mercadante mostly inside its territory.
Monopoli
Province: Bari · 9 m
42 minutes from Bari. An Adriatic walled town forty kilometers south of Bari, the Charles V castle on the headland, 156 square kilometers of coastline behind it.
Putignano
Province: Bari · 372 m
46 minutes from Bari. Putignano has run its carnival continuously since 1394, the longest unbroken run in Europe, staged in a Murgia town with a karst cave threaded beneath its own centro storico.
Castellana Grotte
Province: Bari · 290 m
47 minutes from Bari. A Murge town built on top of the cave system it is named for, three kilometers of galleries running 60 meters under the limestone plateau.
Fasano
Province: Brindisi · 118 m
52 minutes from Bari. A Brindisi-province town running from the Adriatic up to the Itria escarpment, holding a Roman coastal city, a wooded highpoint, and Europe's second-largest safari park.
Locorotondo
Province: Bari · 410 m
56 minutes from Bari. The round white town on the Itria valley ridge at 410 meters, with cummerse roofs the rest of Puglia does not have.
Alberobello
Province: Bari · 402 m
57 minutes from Bari. The Itria valley town built entirely of trulli, 1,500 corbelled limestone cones in two quarters, UNESCO since 1996.
Andria
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 151 m
63 minutes from Bari. Frederick II's favourite Apulian city, the birthplace of burrata, ruling the Murge plateau eighteen kilometers north of its most famous castle.
Castellaneta
Province: Taranto · 235 m
65 minutes from Bari. A cliff-edge Murge town at 235 meters above the Gravina Grande canyon, birthplace of Rudolph Valentino in 1895, with a Bandiera Blu Ionian marina.
Minervino Murge
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 445 m
65 minutes from Bari. A ridge town at 445 meters where the Murgia plateau breaks off into open view, inside the national park that carries its name.
Cisternino
Province: Brindisi · 394 m
66 minutes from Bari. An Itria valley borgo on the southern Murgia at 394 meters, whitewashed and looking down over drystone walls and trulli.
Gravina in Puglia
Province: Bari · 350 m
68 minutes from Bari. Puglia's deepest gravina: a Bari-province town of 42,700 built on the lip of a 100m-deep limestone canyon, its cliffs threaded with rupestrian cave churches.
Trinitapoli
Province: Barletta-Andria-Trani · 5 m
70 minutes from Bari. A Tavoliere town between the Saline di Margherita and the Ofanto, sitting on a Bronze Age sanctuary that still surprises archaeologists.
Martina Franca
Province: Taranto · 431 m
74 minutes from Bari. Puglia's second Baroque city after Lecce, on the Itria ridge at 431 meters, with an opera festival in its ducal courtyard since 1975.
Ostuni
Province: Brindisi · 218 m
77 minutes from Bari. The Città Bianca on three hills at 218 meters, eight kilometers inland, whitewashed against the Murge above an Adriatic plain of olive trees.
Poggiorsini
Province: Bari · 461 m
77 minutes from Bari. The smallest commune in metropolitan Bari, an Orsini estate of 1609 that became an independent town only in 1957.
Carovigno
Province: Brindisi · 161 m
79 minutes from Bari. An upper Salento hill town between Brindisi and Ostuni, with a marine reserve on its coast.

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