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The sources.
This is not a plain bibliography. It is the research path behind each guide.
Every guide combines verifiable sources, field checks, and local oral memory. When a detail cannot be documented, we mark it as narrative reconstruction.
Alberobello — Inside the Trulli
Last review: 22 May 2026
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- Alta Murgia — Paesaggio · SIT Puglia — Regione Puglia
- Murgia dei trulli — Paesaggio · SIT Puglia — Regione Puglia
- La Murgia in Puglia: storia, tradizioni e curiosità · Bella Vita in Puglia
- L'Arte dei muretti a secco iscritta nella lista del Patrimonio Immateriale dell'UNESCO · Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l'UNESCO
- L'arte dei muretti a secco — elemento transnazionale · Commissione Nazionale Italiana per l'UNESCO
- L'arte dei muretti a secco — scheda · UNESCO Beni Culturali — MiC
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- I Trulli di Alberobello — UNESCO World Heritage Centre · UNESCO
- I Trulli di Alberobello — scheda patrimonio · UNESCO Beni Culturali — MiC
- Storia dei trulli · Alto Salento Riviera dei Trulli
- Alberobello — storia e origini · AlberobellOnline
- Alberobello — Wikipedia · Wikipedia EN
- I trulli di Alberobello tra storia e leggenda · Voloscontato
- Trulli di Alberobello — storia, origine e segreti · Pugghia
- Alberobello, Patrimonio UNESCO · Passaturi
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Locorotondo — The Round Village
Last review: 22 May 2026
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- Locorotondo, la città delle cummerse · Bianca di Puglia
- Locorotondo, between trulli and cummerse · Puglia Tips
- Le cummerse. Un viaggio verso la scoperta di antiche costruzioni · Giacovelli Editore
- Case bianche, pianta circolare e cummerse: perché Locorotondo è un borgo unico al mondo · Quotidiano.net
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Martina Franca — The Free City
Last review: 22 May 2026
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Old Bari — Inside the City
Last review: 18 May 2026
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- Castello Svevo di Bari — scheda monumentale · Direzione Regionale Musei Puglia — MiC
- Pina Belli D'Elia · Alle sorgenti del Romanico. Puglia XI secolo · Adda Editore, Bari, 1975
- John Julius Norwich · The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194 · Longmans, 1970
- Guglielmo I detto il Malo — voce DBI · Treccani — Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- Isabella d'Aragona, duchessa di Bari — voce DBI · Treccani
- Bona Sforza, regina di Polonia — voce DBI · Treccani
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- Luigi Sada · La cucina della terra di Bari · Franco Muzzio editore, 1991
- Franco Calò · La cucina barese, tra mare e tradizione · Adda Editore, Bari
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- Giosuè Musca · L'emirato di Bari (847-871) · Dedalo, Bari, 1992
- Bari, emirato di — Federiciana · Treccani
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- Pina Belli D'Elia · La Cattedrale di Bari. Documenti e fonti · Adda Editore
- Cattedrale di San Sabino — sito ufficiale Arcidiocesi di Bari-Bitonto
- Cattedrale di San Sabino — fenomeno del solstizio · Arcidiocesi di Bari-Bitonto
- Repubblica Bari — 'Il solstizio nel rosone della Cattedrale'
- Succorpo della Cattedrale di San Sabino — scheda · Arcidiocesi di Bari-Bitonto
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- Palazzo Simi — Centro operativo per l'archeologia · Soprintendenza ABAP Bari/BAT
- Museo Archeologico di Santa Scolastica · Comune di Bari
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- John Julius Norwich · The Normans in the South 1016-1130 · Longmans, 1967
- Fortino di Sant'Antonio Abate — scheda · Comune di Bari
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- Archivio Storico del Comune di Bari — fondi sul Palazzo del Sedile
- Bari. Guida storico-artistica · Adda Editore
- Soprintendenza ABAP Bari/BAT — Colonna Infame, schedatura monumentale
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- Archivio Storico del Comune di Bari — XVII secolo
- Bari. Guida storico-artistica · Adda Editore
- Scavo archeologico Piazza del Ferrarese — Via Appia-Traiana · Soprintendenza ABAP Bari/BAT
Port of Bari — Where It All Happened
Last review: 18 May 2026
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- Giosuè Musca · L'emirato di Bari (847-871) · Dedalo, Bari, 1992
- Treccani — Bari, emirato di
- Sawdān, last emir of Bari · Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., Brill
- Battaglia di Bari (871) · Treccani — Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, voci Ludovico II e Basilio I
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- John Julius Norwich · The Normans in the South 1016-1130 · Longmans, 1967
- Treccani — Boemondo d'Altavilla
- Cattedrale di San Sabino di Canosa — Mausoleo di Boemondo · Soprintendenza ABAP Bari/BAT
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- Hubert Houben · Federico II. Imperatore, uomo, mito · Il Mulino, Bologna, 2009
- David Abulafia · Frederick II: A Medieval Emperor · Oxford University Press, 1988
- Ernst Kantorowicz · Federico II di Svevia · Garzanti, 1976
- Manoscritto Pal. lat. 1071, De arte venandi cum avibus · Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
- Michele Scoto, voce in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani · Treccani
- Hubert Houben · Federico II · Il Mulino, 2009
- Treaty of Jaffa (1229) · Encyclopedia of the Crusades, Cambridge UP
- Castello Svevo di Bari — scheda monumento · Ministero della Cultura — Direzione Regionale Musei Puglia
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- Glenn B. Infield · Disaster at Bari · Macmillan, New York, 1971
- Gerald Reminick · Nightmare in Bari: The World War II Liberty Ship Poison Gas Disaster and Cover-up · Glencannon Press, 2001
- Documenti desecretati US National Archives (1959) e UK National Archives (1986) · US National Archives — Record Group 112; UK National Archives — Cabinet Office files
- Vincent T. DeVita, Edward Chu · A History of Cancer Chemotherapy · Cancer Research, vol. 68, n. 21, 2008
- Goodman, Wintrobe, Dameshek, Goodman, Gilman, McLennan · Nitrogen mustard therapy · JAMA, vol. 132, 1946
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- Comune di Bari — Porto vecchio e mercato del pesce · Comune di Bari
- Repubblica — 'N'derre a la lanze, la pescheria all'aperto di Bari'
- Franco Calò · La cucina barese, tra mare e tradizione · Adda Editore, Bari
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- Luigi Sada · La cucina della terra di Bari · Franco Muzzio editore, 1991
- Franco Calò · La cucina barese · Adda Editore
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- Daniele Vicari · La nave dolce · 2012
- Rando Devole · L'immigrazione albanese in Italia. Una storia che continua · 2008
- Archivio fotografico ANSA — Vlora, marzo 1991 · ANSA
- Archivio storico La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno — marzo 1991 · La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
- Corriere del Mezzogiorno — 'Vlora 30 anni dopo: la cerimonia al porto'
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- Storia dei teatri di Bari · Adda Editore
- Teatro Margherita — scheda Comune di Bari · Comune di Bari
- Repubblica Bari — 'Riapre il Teatro Margherita'
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- Mario Toscano · La porta di Sion. L'Italia e l'immigrazione clandestina ebraica in Palestina (1945-1948) · Il Mulino, 1990
- CDEC — Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea · CDEC, Milano
- Bernd J. Fischer · Albania at War, 1939-1945 · Hurst, 1999
San Nicola — The Stolen Saint
Last review: 18 May 2026
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- Charles W. Jones · Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend · University of Chicago Press, 1978
- Treccani — Nicola, santo di Myra · Treccani — Enciclopedia online
- Adriano Strumia · San Nicola di Myra. Storia, leggenda, culto · Edizioni Levante, Bari
- Edict of Milan (313 CE) — Lactantius, De mortibus persecutorum · Patrologia Latina vol. 7
- Gerardo Cioffari · San Nicola nella critica storica · Centro Studi Nicolaiani, Bari, 1987
- Charles W. Jones · Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan · University of Chicago Press, 1978
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- Niceforo (Nikephoros) · Translatio sancti Nicolai (cronaca della traslazione) · edita in Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina e in Cioffari, La Translazione, 1087
- Gerardo Cioffari · La Translazione di S. Nicola da Myra a Bari · Centro Studi Nicolaiani, Bari, 1987
- Battle of Manzikert (1071) · Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire
- Niceforo · Translatio s. Nicolai (testo latino) · ed. critica Centro Studi Nicolaiani Bari
- Giovanni Arcidiacono · Historia translationis sancti Nicolai · Acta Sanctorum, Maii II
- Lupo Protospatario · Chronicon (anni 1087-1088) · Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores V
- Niceforo · Translatio sancti Nicolai · ed. Cioffari, Centro Studi Nicolaiani
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- Gerardo Cioffari · La Basilica di San Nicola di Bari. Storia, arte, tradizione · Centro Studi Nicolaiani, 1994
- Basilica di San Nicola di Bari — sito ufficiale
- Pina Belli D'Elia · Alle sorgenti del Romanico. Puglia XI secolo · Adda Editore, Bari, 1975
- Basilica di San Nicola — Cronologia · Centro Studi Nicolaiani, Bari
- Council of Bari (1098) · Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, vol. XX
- Steven Runciman · A History of the Crusades, Vol. I: The First Crusade · Cambridge University Press, 1951
- John Julius Norwich · The Kingdom in the Sun 1130-1194 · Longmans, 1970
- Guglielmo I detto il Malo, voce in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani · Treccani
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- Gerardo Cioffari · La manna di S. Nicola. Storia e analisi · Centro Studi Nicolaiani
- Basilica di San Nicola — Rito della manna
- Basilica di San Nicola — Calendario liturgico
- Margherita Campaniello · Studio sulla manna di S. Nicola · Pubblicazioni Centro Studi Nicolaiani, Bari
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- Basilica Pontificia di San Nicola — Ecumenismo
- Il culto di San Nicola tra Oriente e Occidente · Atti del convegno Centro Studi Nicolaiani
- Russian Imperial Court records (1912-1913) on the Bari pilgrimage church · State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF)
- Chiesa russa di Bari — scheda monumentale · Soprintendenza ABAP Bari/BAT
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- Charles W. Jones · Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan · University of Chicago Press, 1978
- Stephen Nissenbaum · The Battle for Christmas · Knopf, New York, 1996
- Clement Clarke Moore (attrib.) · A Visit from St. Nicholas · Troy Sentinel, 23 dicembre 1823
- Thomas Nast · Santa Claus illustrations, Harper's Weekly · Harper's Weekly, dal 1863
- Haddon Sundblom · Coca-Cola Santa Claus advertising campaign (1931 e seguenti) · The Coca-Cola Company Archives, Atlanta
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- Basilica di San Nicola — Festa patronale di maggio
- Archivio Capitolare della Basilica di San Nicola, Bari
- Archivio storico La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno — maggio 1944 · La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
The Three Theatres — Fire, Music and Bourgeoisie
Last review: 18 May 2026
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- Pasquale Sorrenti · Bari moderna. L'addizione ottocentesca · Adda Editore, Bari
- Borgo Murattiano (voce) · Treccani — Enciclopedia online
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- Archivio Storico del Comune di Bari — Teatro Piccinni
- Storia dei teatri di Bari · Adda Editore
- Teatro Piccinni — scheda monumento · Comune di Bari
- Niccolò Piccinni — voce DBI · Treccani — Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
- Pierpaolo Polzonetti · Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution · Cambridge University Press, 2011
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- Archivio Storico del Comune di Bari — concessione e costruzione del Teatro Petruzzelli
- Storia dei teatri di Bari · Adda Editore
- Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli — Storia
- La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno — cronaca 14 febbraio 1903 · Archivio storico La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
- Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli — Cronologia
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- Storia dei teatri di Bari · Adda Editore
- Teatro Margherita — scheda Comune di Bari
- Repubblica Bari — riapertura del Teatro Margherita
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- Atti processuali Tribunale di Bari — caso incendio Petruzzelli 1991
- Archivio storico La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno — ottobre 1991 e anni successivi
- Repubblica — 'Petruzzelli, l'incendio del 1991 e le sentenze'
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- Sentenze Cassazione sulla controversia Petruzzelli (anni 2000) · Corte di Cassazione, Roma
- Corriere della Sera / La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno — cronache della ricostruzione
- Fondazione Teatro Petruzzelli — Storia della riapertura (4 dicembre 2009)
- Repubblica Bari — '4 dicembre 2009, riapre il Petruzzelli con Riccardo Muti'