Bari ‘Runseeing’ Tour

It’s fun to create your own running tour of Bari’s distinct and adjoining old and new sections. The old section is bound by the Lungomare and Basilica area, south to the Corso Emanuele (0.5 km), and 0.5 km east-west between the Fortino di Sant’Antonio and the Castello Normanno-Svevo. Inside these bounds is a maze of alleys and very narrow streets. We’ve drawn an outline route on a map. Go when it’s quiet and explore the streets.

The more modern ‘New City’ features some lovely 19th century architecture and runs on a grid-like pattern between Corso Emanuele and Corso Italia/Piazza Aldo Moro (1 km north-south) and between Via Alessandro Manzoni and Corso Cavour (1 km east-west). Here, there are longer, wider streets that are easy to explore:

Be sure to check out Via Sparano and Via Agriro, two of the main shopping streets. You could do many km by exploring these streets north-south and east-west, plus a couple of loops around the Piazza Garibaldi Gardens on the west side, the Piazza Umberto near the central train station, and on the east end, a section of the Lungomare including the spectacular Museo Teatro Margherita.

For guidance purposes, we’ve drawn a map around the ‘Old City’, and plotted a 5 km route that goes from the Basilica to the Castle, then a section of Corso Emanuele to the Via Sparano shopping street, then from the Piazza Umberto to the Museo, using Corso Cavour. For more, add some of our Lungomare waterfont run.