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Encyclopedia Britannica



ALTAMURA

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 759 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ALM-ANC
ALTAMURA , a town of Apulia,
Italy
 , in the province of Bari, 28 M. S.S.W. of the town of that name, and 56 m. by
rail
  via Gioia del Colle. Pop. (1901) 22,729. It possesses a fine Romanesque
cathedral
  begun in 1232 and restored in 1330 and 1531, the portal being especially remarkable. It is one of the four
Palatine
  churches of Apulia. The surrounding territory is fertile. The medieval walls, erected by the emperor Frederick IL, rest upon the walls of an
ancient
 
city
  of unknown name. These early walls are of rough blocks of
stone
 . without mortar.
Ancient
  tombs with fragments of vases have also been found, and there are cases which have been used as
primitive
  tombs or dwellings, and a
group
  of some fifty tumuli near Altamura.


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