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Bari Self Guided Tour of a City of Relics and Refugees

Most people rush through Bari on the way to a ferry. They miss that a disaster in this harbour handed modern medicine its first chemotherapy drug. They fail to learn about how a crew of Bari sailors sailed to Turkey, broke open a tomb, and carried home the bones of the man the world would later call Santa Claus. Their names are still listed in the basilica they built to hold him. This is a self-guided audio tour of Bari. Download it to the app, put in your earphones, and walk. No meeting point, no fixed start time, no group. Nineteen stops through Bari, where you see a carved Turkish head with a decapitation legend, an arch where women were said to leap from roofs as cats, a marble tomb built by a daughter certain her mother was murdered, and the town hall of a mayor who refused to turn away 20,000 refugees. Audio works offline, so pause it, replay it, take your time. Over 25,000 travelers have used our self-guided tours, and every one comes with a full refund guarantee.