Taranto Trip Overview
In just an hour you can visit the most interesting places in the old town and in the Umbertino village. Our slogan is “the best way to visit the city of two seas”. In fact, it often happens that you are just passing through our capital, you stop only for a few hours, a fleeting meal and you are disappointed to have noticed a beautiful city but that for reasons of time we did not linger as it would have deserved because the territory is quite extensive, what better opportunity then to speed up everything by spending a pleasant hour letting yourself be guided aboard a nice Calessino bee? Seeing is believing.
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Duration: 1 hour
Starts: Taranto, Italy
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Taranto, Puglia, Italy
In just an hour you can visit the most interesting places in the old town and in the Umbertino village. Our slogan is “the best way to visit the city of two seas”. In fact, it often happens that you are just passing through our capital, you stop only for a few hours, a fleeting meal and you are disappointed to have noticed a beautiful city but that for reasons of time we did not linger as it would have deserved because the territory is quite extensive, what better opportunity then to speed up everything by spending a pleasant hour letting yourself be guided aboard a nice Calessino bee? Seeing is believing.
Pass By: Castello Aragonese, Piazza Castello 4, 70123, Taranto Italy
Since it takes about an hour to visit the castle, a description will be provided with the possibility of admiring it from the outside.
Pass By: Monumento al Marinaio d’Italia, Taranto Italy
Along the promenade, the monument will be described without particular stops.
Stop At: Palazzo del Governo, Via Anfiteatro 4, 74123, Taranto Italy
Once near the Rotonda del Lungomare we will stop for a few minutes to describe the palaces of the fascist period including the Government Palace and the Central Post Office.
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: Piazza Ebalia, Lungomare Vittorio Emanuele III, 74123, Taranto Italy
Once in Piazza Ebalia we will describe the fountain of the Compass Rose and the building of the Bank of Italy.
Duration: 3 minutes
Pass By: Museo Nazionale Archeologico, Via Camillo Benso Conte di Cavour 10, 74123, Taranto Italy
Returning to the old city we will pass, describing its peculiarities, in front of the National Archaeological Museum of MarTa.
Pass By: Ponte Girevole, Corso due Mari, Taranto Italy
Returning to the old city we will pass again on the swing bridge describing it together with the navigable canal and all the various transformations that took place at the end of the 1800s.
Stop At: Mare Piccolo, 74121 Taranto TA, Italy
At the end of the descent of the Vasto we stop to admire the Mar Piccolo, describing the whole scenario that we find in front of us, starting from the right from the military Arsenal, the Punta Penna Pizzone bridge, second breast of the Mar Piccolo and first breast, the springs of fresh water “Citri”, fishing and mussel cultivation.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Piazza Fontana, 74121, Taranto Italy
After having crossed the streets of the marina, via Garibaldi and Via Cariati, we arrive in piazza Fontana we will make a brief stop to describe the fountain restored in the 1980s by Carrino and the eighteenth-century clock tower.
Duration: 3 minutes
Stop At: San Domenico Maggiore Church, Via Duomo 1, 74123, Taranto Italy
Going up the San Domenico slope, we arrive in the church of 1300 which gives way to the procession of the sacred mysteries that precede Easter, an event deeply felt by the people of Taranto.
Duration: 7 minutes
Stop At: Taranto Catherdral – Duomo of San Cataldo, Piazza Duomo Centro storico di Taranto, Taranto Italy
After visiting the church of San Domenico we walk along via Duomo until we stop again to visit the oldest cathedral in Puglia, San Cataldo of Irish origins who in addition to being the patron saint of the city was also bishop of the city of Taranto.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Tempio di Poseidon, Piazza Castello, 74123, Taranto Italy
We have reached the end of the tour, but not without having visited the Doric temple dating back to the sixth century BC. the only testimony of the Magna Graecia era. We are in piazza municipio right in front of the point from which our Falanto tour started.
Duration: 7 minutes
