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Madonnella, Bari — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Madonnella takes its name from a Madonna set in a niche above the fields at Largo Francesco Carabellese, on Bari's seafront.
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Where to stay in Madonnella
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
The Lungomare Nazario Sauro is the address here. The city laid it out between 1927 and 1928 along the Adriatic, and it carries the public buildings and the view, so a room on or just behind it puts the Pane e Pomodoro beach at one end and the old town at the other. Via Abbrescia closes the western side. Japigia begins across Ponte Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Things to do in and around Bari
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Museums & Galleries
4- Teatro Margherita Heritage
- Pinacoteca metropolitana di Bari Heritage
- Museo archeologico di Santa Scolastica Heritage
- Museo Nicolaiano Heritage
Churches & Religious Sites
6- Basilica of Saint Nicholas Heritage
- Santa Teresa dei Maschi Heritage
- San Marco dei Veneziani Heritage
- Saint Anne Church Heritage
- chiesa di San Martino Heritage
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- San Gregorio Heritage
Castles & Historic Sites
1- Palazzo Simi Heritage
Stadiums & Sports
1- Palaflorio
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About Madonnella
What are the main landmarks in Madonnella?
San Giuseppe is the parish church. The Pinacoteca metropolitana di Bari sits in the Palazzo dell'Amministrazione Provinciale, put up in 1935, and the Teatro Kursaal Santalucia of 1927 and Palazzo Colonna of 1925 stand near it. The Palazzo dell'Aeronautica Militare went up the same year as the Pinacoteca's building.
What is the history of Madonnella?
The name changed twice under Mussolini. The quartiere was called Benito Mussolini in 1927 and then dell'Oriente, it was folded into Murat in 1938, and it was restored as a quartiere of its own in 1970. A new Madonna went into the niche in 1956.
Half a square kilometre holds all of it.
Where is Madonnella?
Madonnella runs along the Adriatic south of Bari's old town, between Largo Adua and Ponte Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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Updated October 2026