The historians make to go back the word
Brindisi to the ancient term “Brunda” that meant read deer haed, whose shape of the natural port seems.
The symbol for excellence of the city is from always the fascinating columns roman that they surpass the
perrons of Virgilio Public square, dominating the income of the port, and known like term of famous Via
Appia roman and the harbour point of reference for sailors of the age. Throuth the Pigonati channel it is
approached the inner port circulated in two parts naturally, until meeting the National Monument to the
Sailor of Italy, shape of rudder and dedicated to the 6.000 fallen sailors of the Great War(’15-’18). The
historical center of the city is still in part confined to the inside of walls aragoneses and from the strategic
bastions S. Giacomo and Porta Napoli. In the outskirtses of Duomo square it can be admired the splendid
Loggia of the Palazzo Balsamo, the Porch of De Cateniano and the beautiful Cathedral founded from
Pope Urbano II. Little distant finds the evocative district S. Pietro degli Schiavoni , which is visible a
roman age zone with a termal complex and some characteristic houses. Coming to Brindisi from the sea it
can admire Aragoneses Castel carried out in 1491 and very particular for its red briks drew from the stone
of the island, and “Castello Svevo” wanted
from Federico II. Typical axample of
Romanesque art is S. Benedetto church
built in 1089, always abject of interest of
studiouses for its medieval cloister and the
monastery, and the beautiful and elegant S.
maria del Casale church that follow the
passage from Romanesque to gothic style.