

Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo)
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The 12th-century Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo), with its fortified ramparts and vaulted halls, is one of top sights in Bari and a refreshing break from the port city’s Romanesque churches and art collections. Climb the Hohenstaufen tower and Aragon walls for sweeping views of the city and sea.
Piazza Federico II di Svevia 4, Bari, Italy
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Bari Bike Tour with Pasta Experience
Pedal through Bari on a bike tour, then finish in the home of a local signora, cooking a pasta dish typical of the Puglia region. The experience starts with a ride through the city’s handsome Old Town to discover landmarks as the Basilica of St. Nicholas and striking Bari Cathedral. Follow your guide through the modern French side of the city, then call in at a local home to make orecchiette pasta pomodoro by hand. A glass of the intense primitivo local wine is included as you eat.
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$55.91
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Bari Walking Tour with Pasta Experience
Team a walking tour of Bari with a cooking class in a local home, and discover the secrets of the local orecchiette pasta. With a private guide, you’ll make your way around the enticing Old Town lanes, discovering landmarks such as the Basilica of St. Nicholas and hearing the city’s history. After a visit to the city’s French enclave with its modern seafront sights, you’ll visit the home of a local to make fresh pasta pomodoro and try the local primitivo red wine.
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$53.37
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Bari Street Food Bike Tour
Discover the sights and flavors of Bari on a bike tour. After exploring the historic Old Town on two wheels, you’ll then visit a bakery, brewery, deli, winery, and a gelateria. Sample food at each venue, trying treats such as the local ‘focaccia barese,’ before you venture into the modern streets of the city’s French quarter.
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$64.81
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Bari Bike Tour
Explore Puglia’s capital on this 2-hour bike tour that takes you through Bari’s maze-like old town and lesser-known neighborhoods outside the city center. Cover much more distance than walking to see highlights such as the San Sabino Cathedral, the Basilica di San Nicola, and the local fish market while your guide shares insight into the city’s heritage. Take in beautiful seaside views and stop for a tasting of delicious handmade ice cream.
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$31.78
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$31.78
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Bari Segway Tour
Make the most of your time in Bari, and travel around the city with ease, when you go on an introductory Segway tour. Meet your guide in the Old Town, grab your helmet and Segway, and explore the city’s major highlights, from the Basilica di San Nicola to the Castello Normanno-Svevo. You can also upgrade to couple your Segway tour with a traditional pasta-making class, or go on a street food-themed Segway tour, complete with numerous samples.
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$49.56
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Bari Rickshaw Tour with Museum Visits
See Bari by rickshaw, and enjoy a fun take on a 3-hour historical tour of the city. As you relax, your guide drives the rickshaw around the city’s little-known corners and landmarks. Swing past the Basilica of St. Nicholas in Bari Old Town, and then travel to two of the city’s museums, which are decided on the day. Perhaps hop out to discover underground Roman walls in Il Succorpo della Cattedrale di Bari or walk among the art exhibitions of the Swabian Castle. As an extra bonus, a tasting of home-made Italian ice cream is included.
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Bari Street Food Walking Tour
Taste your way around town with this street food tour of Bari, and learn about the city’s signature treats from a private guide. Starting with a walk around Bari’s Old Town, the tour introduces you to standout sights such as the Basilica of St. Nicholas and its sacred crypt. Continue to explore the cobblestoned enclave, trying fresh burrata cheese, focaccia, salumi, panzerotti, and home-made gelato. Finally, you’ll finish with a visit to the city’s French neighborhood where a large fish market is held.
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$62.27
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The magic of "Bari Vecchia"
With this tour you will visit the most significant places of the old town through evocative landscapes, history, culture and legends. We will enter the Cathedral and the "Basilica of San Nicolas". Finally we will pass by a road where some women still make the "orecchiette".
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$31.78
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$31.78
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Private Bari Street Food Tour by Rickshaw
Hop on a rickshaw to discover Bari’s street food scene with your own personal guide. The private tour includes a ride around the city’s captivating Old Town, stopping at sights and eateries along the way. Admire the white façade of the Basilica of St. Nicholas and hear the history behind the imposing walls of the Swabian Castle as you pass by. Treats such as gelato, focaccia, burrata cheese, and panzerotti are all included through the tour.
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$69.90
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Bari Rickshaw Tour
See the highlights of Bari on a rickshaw driven by a local guide. Visit the Basilica of Saint Nicholas, Bari Cathedral, Swabian Castle, the Fish Market, and other notable landmarks. Navigate the narrow streets of the old town and discover local history and culture. The tour concludes with a tasting of homemade Italian gelato.
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$57.19
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Bari By Night City Centre and Seafront Walking Tour
With its Mediterranean heat and port crowds, exploring Bari by day can be a chore. Take advantage of the cooler temperatures and fewer tourists with this night tour that takes you past some of the most magical monuments and the twinkling lights of the seafront promenade on foot. Learn about the city’s history and lore from your guide as you admire the romantically lit churches and squares of the old town.
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$106.66
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$106.66
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Social distancing enforced throughout experience

Bari Walking tour
Here is the best way to discover not only all the most important monuments of Bari, but also the typical angles and hidden paths. If you have a few hours or days in Bari - it doesn't matter! - this tour is a must. You will have a unique and expert guide for those who want to get the best and the best out of the city. Meeting point in front of the Castle.
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$37.17
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$37.17
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Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff

Tour of the fortifications of Bari: the defenses of the city and their history
The city fortifications are the protagonists of this itinerary. From the implantation of the megalithic walls at the Bastion of Santa Scolastica, to the demolition of the city defenses by Murat who started the chessboard work of the new city. Bari, its defenses, its history.
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$30.50
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$30.50
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
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Walking tour of Bari & food tasting *private tour*
Capital of Puglia, Bari boasts the presence of the Basilica of San Nicola, an important example of Apulian Romanesque architecture. This church is included amongst the most important places of worship in the world, where Catholic and Orthodox worship blend together. You will visit the old town (including the fish market, both Ferrarese and Mercantile squares, the Ancient wall "la Muraglia", the Basilica of Saint Nicholaus, the Cathedral, the Norman-Swabian Castle and walk down the alleys up to the "pasta" street").
You will stop in different locations to taste our most popular street food ( "focaccia", "popizze" and "sgagliozze").
It's possible to personalize this tour by sending us a request or to choose a different meeting point in Bari.
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$24.78
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$24.78

Bari Treasure Hunt Tour
PlacenPeople, the largest local organizing community in Puglia, presents this new "Hunt for Treasures of Bari" tour.
A new way to get to know the city: a journey organized in stages, in each of which you can discover a cultural treasure, solving an enigma with the help of the Organizers, and starting from some clues that will be found along the way.
You will discover having fun the cultural treasures of Bari.
An adventure in the "Dan Brown" style, in which the entire journey was conceived by PlacenPeople with the collaboration of famous scholars of the history of Puglia, and known signatures, so that everything you live is historically founded, and in the end you will know the true soul of this city.
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$3.82
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$3.82

Walking tour Bari with Focaccia tasting
Most travelers use Bari as a jumping-off spot to explore Puglia, but this port city has a delightful old town to discover. With this tour, take in the highlights of “Bari Vecchia” like the Swabian Castle, Basilica of San Nicola, and Cathedral in just hours with a guide. Meet the local women who make handmade “orecchiette” pasta streetside and cap off your experience with fresh focaccia from a historic bakery.
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$49.56
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$49.56
Price varies by group size
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Экскурсии в Бари и в Арулии
Прогулка по старому городу Бари. посещение самых красивых и исторических мест города (включая Базилика Святого Николая) и дегуси
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$16.11
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Bari walking tour for groups
Capital of Puglia, Bari boasts the presence of the Basilica of San Nicola, an important example of Apulian Romanesque architecture. This church is included amongst the most important places of worship in the world, where Catholic and Orthodox worships blend together. You will visit the old town (including the fish market, both Ferrarese and Mercantile squares, the Ancient wall "la Muraglia", the Basilica of Saint Nicholaus, the Cathedral, the Norman-Swabian Castle and walk down the alleys up to the "pasta" street").
Please note this is a walking tour only, If you choose the pick-up option from the port of Bari, we will reach together the old town on foot.
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$287.18
per group
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$287.18
per group

Your Tour: Family
You and your children are invited to join the most entertaining tour of the city: learn about Bari through games and tales, walk peacefully into the old town and let your children play around. Dedicated to kids, teens, and forever-young adults. There is no time to get bored: enjoy Bari with your family!
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$148.67
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$148.67
Price varies by group size
Face masks provided for travelers
Hand sanitizer available to travelers and staff
Gear/equipment sanitized between use

Walking & Tasting TOur
The tour lasts about 2 hours and will involve in the Apulian atmosphere, during which you will appreciate the famous street food of the city as a true citizen of Bari would do. Among the different stages, we will visit the main monuments of Bari as the Basilica of San Nicola and will discover interesting stories and curiosities about the ancient gastronomic tradition of Bari. In addition, the route will include a visit to an ancient city bakery, where visitors will be exposed to the original recipe for the preparation of one of the must-haves of Neapolitan street food, the "focaccia barese".
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$55.75
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$55.75

In Bari with a Local: Private Walking Tour
Experience the picturesque yet often overlooked city of Bari - capital of the Puglia region of Italy. Enjoy the benefits of your own personal, private expert local guide who will enchant you with the cultural and historical treasures including the Castle of Bari, Cathedral of St. Sabino and the Basilica of St. Nicholas, where the saint’s bones are kept to this day.
With the guidance from a local expert, take a two hour private tour through the cultural and historical treasures of the city of Bari. With stops at the Castle of Bari, Cathedral of St. Sabino and the Basilica of St. Nicholas, (where St. Nick’s bones are kept to this day) see the varied neighborhoods where locals linger and inside “la cucina Italiana” the regional delicacy of orecchiette pasta is still crafted in its traditional way. Enjoy the surroundings at two of the most integral piazzas in the region, where you will wander among the quaint shops and fragrant restaurants typical to the region.
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$322.12
per group
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$322.12
per group
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Face masks required for guides in public areas
Face masks provided for travelers

Walking tour of the ancient center (Bari Vecchia)
We will visit the old city which is the most characteristic part of the city. we will get in touch with the reality of the city population, discovering its peculiarities. we will taste the local food. The group will be a maximum of 10 people. The excursion is a pleasant and relaxing walk.
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$27.26
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$27.26
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Prepare and taste the orecchiette + Tour of Bari Vecchia
We will visit the historical center with a historical description and in the end we will understand how to prepare the pasta. We will enter the house of one of the oldest and most experienced women in the city. You will love it.
PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU HAVE DIFFERENT REQUESTS ABOUT THE TIME, PLEASE CHAT ME AND WE WILL FIND A SUITABLE TIME FOR YOU. my email is shown above andryus_bat plus snail mail hotmail point it
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$43.36
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$43.36
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Archaeological Bari
This experience consists of a wonderful walk around the ancient city of Bari, the Byzantine city that was the capital of southern Italy in 960 AD
I will be able to show you its treasures through the eyes of an art historian (me or my colleagues). I'll give you tips and details you can't find in books!
A walk in the underground of Bari is a very intense experience: you will feel like you are wandering in an ancient living city!
During the experience, I will explain the history of the city and how the Romans lived, showing you all the most important public buildings and private houses.
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$29.73
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Should I book Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) tickets in advance?
We recommend booking e-tickets ahead of time to secure your spot since Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) can get crowded. If you book with Viator, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start date of your tour for a full refund. See all 24 Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) tickets and tours on Viator.
How much does it cost to visit Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) 2021?
Currently, an entrance ticket to Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) costs USD 3.82. Guided Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) tours start around USD 3.82 per person. See all 24 Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) tickets and tours on Viator.
What's the best way to experience Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo)?
The best ways to experience Swabian Castle (Castello Svevo) are:
- Bari Bike Tour with Pasta Experience
- Bari Walking Tour with Pasta Experience
- Bari Street Food Bike Tour
- Bari Bike Tour
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