Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Brindisi, Italy

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Number of sights 15 sights
Distance 3.4 km
Ascend 42 m
Descend 41 m

Explore Brindisi in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in BrindisiIndividual Sights in Brindisi

Sight 1: Santa Lucia

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The Church of the Holy Trinity or Santa Lucia is a church located in the historic center of Brindisi. One of the oldest parishes in Brindisi was established in it and as such it still functions today.

Wikipedia: Chiesa della Santissima Trinità (Brindisi) (IT), Website

275 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Fontana De Torres

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The Torres Fountain is a monumental fountain in Brindisi, Italy.

Wikipedia: Fontana De Torres (IT)

249 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Area archeologica San Pietro degli Schiavoni

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The archaeological area of San Pietro degli Schiavoni is an archaeological area of Brindisi below the Verdi Theater, in via Santi 1, which has elements and finds of the ancient Roman city.

Wikipedia: San Pietro degli Schiavoni (IT), Website

239 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Tempio di San Giovanni al Sepolcro

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The church of San Giovanni al Sepolcro is a Romanesque church located in the historic center of Brindisi, closed to worship, but open to the public with guided tours.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Giovanni al Sepolcro (IT)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Chiesa degli Angeli

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The church of Santa Maria degli Angeli is located in Piazza Angeli, in Brindisi.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Maria degli Angeli (Brindisi) (IT)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: San Benedetto

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The church of San Benedetto is a Romanesque sacred building located in Brindisi. Open for worship, it was the seat of the Parish of St. Anne and St. Benedict. Today it is the rector of the Cathedral parish.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di San Benedetto (Brindisi) (IT)

400 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Fontana Monumentale

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The Fountain of the Anchors is a monumental fountain in Brindisi, Italy. The fountain is located in Piazza Cairoli and dates back to 1937.

Wikipedia: Fontana delle Ancore (IT)

358 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Vasche Limarie

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The limarie basins of Brindisi were tanks for settling and sedimenting water from wells outside the city which, thanks to the natural pressure, fed some of the city's fountains. They thus constituted the terminal part of the Roman aqueduct that brought water from Vito's Well to Brundisium, through a path partly underground and partly elevated.

Wikipedia: Vasche limarie (IT)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Porta Mesagne

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The Porta mesagne is the oldest entrance gate to Brindisi. The medieval gate was built in the foundations of the forewall, built in Roman times by Mark Antony, for the defense of the city from earth.

Wikipedia: Porta Mesagne (Brindisi) (IT)

386 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 10: Castello Svevo di Brindisi

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The Swabian Castle of Brindisi, also known as the Castle of Land or the Swabian-Aragonese Castle, is located close to the historic center of Brindisi, a part of it overlooks the inner part of the city port, also in defense of this important area of the city.

Wikipedia: Castello svevo (Brindisi) (IT)

557 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 11: Fontana dell'Impero

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The Fountain of the Empire is a monumental fountain located in Brindisi at the foot of Piazza Santa Teresa, on the city's waterfront.

Wikipedia: Fontana dell'Impero (IT)

53 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Monumento ai Caduti Prima Guerra Mondiale

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The Monument to the Fallen of the First World War is a monument in Brindisi, Italy, located in Piazza Santa Teresa.

Wikipedia: Monumento ai caduti della prima guerra mondiale (Brindisi) (IT)

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 13: Chiesa di Santa Teresa

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The church of Santa Teresa is a baroque church overlooking the square of the same name in Brindisi.

Wikipedia: Chiesa di Santa Teresa (Brindisi) (IT)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: Museo Archeologico Provinciale F. Ribezzo

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The Provincial Archaeological Museum "Francesco Ribezzo" is located in Brindisi, in Piazza Duomo.

Wikipedia: Museo archeologico provinciale Francesco Ribezzo (IT), Website

0 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 15: Cattedrale di Brindisi

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The cathedral of Brindisi, officially the pontifical cathedral basilica of Brindisi or the cathedral of Brindisi or the basilica of the Visitation and St. John the Baptist, was consecrated by Pope Urban II in 1089 and completed in 1143. It has the dignity of a minor basilica.

Wikipedia: Cattedrale di Brindisi (IT)

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