Brindisi

= **Brindisi, Italy ** Population: 402,422 Province: Brindisi  Region: Puglia

*******Food and Culture******* ***FESTIVALS***
 * Fish is the main element of Brindisian cuisine.
 * Urchins oysters, groupers and swordfish steaks, sea bass and blue fish are simply prepared in dishes served with seasonal vegetables sush as mushrooms, asparagus, wild vegetables, broad beans and the famous cicerchia.
 * Vineyards and olive groves are used for the production of high quality DOC wines and extra virgin olive oils. he milk from local farms are used for the production of mature cheeses such as ricotta, carcioricotta and pecorina(sheep milk cheese).
 * During the of the "Decorated Horse" on the Corpus Domini Day, the archbishop of the diocese brings in procession the Eucharists on a white war horse.
 *  Corpus Domini Day This is in rememberance of an ancient tradition which originated in the year 1254
 * held in June, in the Piazza Duomo at 5:00pm

> > *******Architecture and Art******* **Sights to See ** > > >
 * On the festival of Saints Teodoro and Lorenzo, patrons of the city, there is a large procession in the water of the harbor.
 * held on the first Saturday of September @ 7:00pm all around the inner port [[image:moderndayitaly/festical.jpg width="526" height="300"]]
 * 1)  __Chiesa di Santa Maria del Casale__: Built by Prince Philip of Taranto around 1300, the church mixes up Puglian Romanesque, Gothic and Byzantine styles, with a Byzantine banquet of interior frescoes. The immense //Last Judgement// on the entrance wall, full of blood and thunder, is the work of Rinaldo di Taranto.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Cathedral:Was built in the 11th century but then substantially remodelled about 700 years later
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Porta dei Cavalieri Templari: The Porta dei Cavalieri Templari, an exotic-looking portico with pointy arches, is all that remains of the Knights Templar's main church. It stands beside the cathedral in the heart of the small historic quarter.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tempio di San Giovanni al Sepolcro: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">The Tempio di San Giovanni al Sepolcro, is a square brown bulk of Norman stone conforming to the circular plan the Templars so loved.

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