Bitetto
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| Saint day | April 27 |
| Website | Official website |
Bitetto (
Latin: Vitetum, Bisctictum or Bitectum) is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia, Italy
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Main sights
The main attraction of Bitetto is the cathedral, dedicated to
Saint Michael, one of the main examples of Apulian Romanesque architecture, built in 1335. It has a sober façade divided by false columns with a big rose window
. Of the three portals, the central one has a rich series of sculptures: two stone lions supporting columns with carved capitals showing vegetable motifs; these in turn support is a lunette with basreliefs of Christ and the twelve apostles. The frame has instead scenes from the New Testament. The interior was plastered in the 18th century, but was restored to the original Romanesque style in 1959. It has a nave and two aisles; the transept has three apses.
The diocese of which the building was the cathedral was founded at some date between a
Third Lateran Council in 1179. Its last bishop died on 1 January 1798. In 1818, the see was incorporated into the archdiocese of Bari.[3][4][5] No longer a residential bishopric, Bitetto (Bitettum in Latin) is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.[6]
Notable people
- Alessio Mininni (born 1997), singer
Twin towns
References
- ^ "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018". Italian National Institute of Statistics. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ Michele Garruba, Serie critica de' sacri pastori baresi, Bari 1844, pp. 719-732
- ^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Leipzig 1931, p. 859
- ^ Konrad Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica Medii Aevi, vol. 1 Archived 2019-07-09 at the Wayback Machine, p. 138; vol. 2 Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, p. 107; vol. 3, p. 134; vol. 4 Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, p. 115
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 851
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