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Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca, Bari — Area Guide & Where to Stay
The Faro di Punta San Cataldo stands over Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca, a quartiere of Bari holding the Fiera del Levante fairground.
About Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca
Where to stay in Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca
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Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca lies on Bari's shore north-west of the old town, out past the port and the fairground gates. Beds are thin. The Fiera del Levante takes the eastern end of the quarter, and behind it the flats run west above the shops of via Nicolò van Westerhout and the fish counters of Lungomare IX Maggio.
The stazione di Fesca-San Girolamo puts the Ferrotramviaria line at the inland edge, and via Napoli is one of two roads tying the quarter to the centre of Bari. Stay here if you want the sand at San Francesco alla Rena and the fair gates within walking distance more than a room in the old town.
About Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca
What are the main landmarks in Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca?
Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca carries the Fiera del Levante, which held its first campionaria in 1930 and keeps its main gate on Lungomare Starita. That seafront rounds the San Cataldo peninsula to the Faro di Punta San Cataldo, a tufo tower of 1869 climbing to its lantern in 380 steps. The Stadio della Vittoria opened in 1934.
Its torre di Maratona came down in 1963. The chiesa di San Girolamo has held a parish on strada San Girolamo since 1958, replacing a chapel to the same saint that had long stood in the locality. The Pineta di San Francesco alla Rena spreads pine between viale Ottorino Respighi and the Lamasinata canal.
What is the history of Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca?
Bari constituted Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca as a single quartiere on 26 January 1970, joining the rioni of Marconi and San Girolamo-Fesca under one three-part name. The Marconi half honours Guglielmo Marconi, who in 1904 worked a wireless link from the ground beside the lighthouse across to Antivari on the Montenegrin coast. Antivari lies across the Adriatic.
From 1979 the quarter formed the VIII circoscrizione with Libertà. The reform of 2014 set it with San Paolo and Stanic under Municipio III.
Where is Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca?
Marconi - San Girolamo - Fesca reaches from via Brigata Regina west to strada vicinale Cola di Cagno, the Adriatic to the north, the Bari-Foggia railway to the south.
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Updated September 2026