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Bari, Bari Bare, in the ancient dialect of Bari Vare, Latin Barium, greek Barion) is an Italian town of 320,550 inhabitants, capital of the province and Puglia. It is known to be the city where lie the relics of St. Nicholas. That privilege has made Bari Basilica and its one of the centers favored by the Orthodox Church in the West.

 The city, first in Puglia, Southern Italy in the second and ninth in Italy for number of inhabitants, is situated in a heavily urbanized, and with a total population of 622,000 inhabitants, is among the most populous urban Italians. Bari is one of 15 Italian metropolitan city. The metropolitan area of Bari covers a land area of 2,269.74 km ² and has about 1 million inhabitants. Bari has a strong mercantile tradition and has always been a focal point in the trade and political and cultural contacts with Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Its port is now the largest passenger port in the Adriatic Sea. Since 1930 is held in Bari, the famous Fiera del Levante, the city has more recently become the seat of the secretariat for the Pan-European Corridor 8.

The peculiar historical center (the so-called Barivecchia) is imbued with a millennial history and opposes all'ottocentesco district Murat ordinate checkerboard plan, which best represents the commercial tradition of the city. After World War II, rapid and often uncontrolled urbanization has made it less regular urbanistically the modern part of town, which developed beyond the district Murat. In December 2005, Moody's, famous New York-based company that performs financial research and analysis on business and state government, has assigned a rating to the City of Bari "Aa3," which expresses a "high quality and risk Credit very remote "about the degree of creditworthiness and ability to repay debts to investors. Then-council member to economy of the town of Bari, Francesco Boccia, now parliamentary PD, which broke the news, he argued that the level of rating was "among the highest ratings of the southern cities" and that it was' more than credit standing of the Puglia region, corresponding to "A2". " The agency Moody's affirmed the ratings of the same class in 2008.

Physical Geography

The town overlooks the Adriatic Sea for a length of 42 km, between the towns of Giovinazzo on the north and Mola di Bari in the south. The district is the center of a vast plain and depressed, the basin of Bari However, in its central portion, stretches several kilometers inland and to the reception centers Bitritto, Modugno and Bito, thus meeting the first sweet slopes of the Murgia. The city goes from 0 to 131 meters above sea level. The communal house is 5 feet high. The layout of the city is often described as an eagle with outstretched wings, whose head is the small peninsula on which is built the first town, Bari old.

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