It is said that while Caio Mario sailing in the Adriatic Sea, left his start Miyamoto looking for a landing, the bird was placed on un’erta cliff, overlooking the sea. Polignano Sea to be identified with the ancient Neapolis that, in reality, it is considered to be kind on a pre-existing center, around the fourth century BC, at the initiative of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, to make it safe navigation to the Ionian Sea. There are testimonies from prehistoric times, with stations Paleolithic (Cave Colombi and thieves at Ripagnola) and especially with those Neolithic, starting from setting archaeological Santa Barbara. Thriving commercial center since the Roman age, as transit of goods and people in East directed, active in the Byzantine period and Lombard, where development is a municipal structure, Polignano was the bishopric since the seventh century AD and remained until the beginning of the nineteenth century, when it was merged with the Diocese of Monopoli. Since then underwent various dominations that alternated on our land.
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