Monopoli, town located on the Adriatic Coast in the Murge’s slopes, is an important fishing port with 47000 inhabitants and a particular trapezoidal plan.
It borders Castellana Grotte, Fasano, Polignano a Mare and Conversano and it is the seat of important archaeologist places. The town centre is clinging to the sea and it is still surrounded with Aragonese fortifications. It shows its clear medieval origins, that find a particular expression in the structure of the urban and social environment and in the old-age house overlooking the mole and the port.



The walls surrounding the town are impressive as well as the gates (Porte). Porta Nuova (near Largo Plebiscito), Porta Vecchia or Foca (so called because it was built under the Emperor Bisanzio) and Porta Castri (near Largo Vescovado). They represent some of the ruins of the old enclosing walls.
Among the monuments that have to be visited, there are the splendid Palazzo Palmieri, an aristocratic building of the XVIII century and the Castle of the period of the Emperor Frederic II built on a promontory named Punta Penna. And then the several Churches and in particular the rural ones and that ones with rupestrian crypts that are real treasures of the architectural and artistic property of the town.
The most important structure is the wonderful Cathedral, one of the most significant example of the Baroque art in the Bari area. Inside the Cathedral there is a museum where precious and considerable Romanesque, Dalmatian and Venetian sculptures are kept.