Bari

Bari
Bari
	Comune
	Comune di Bari
	A collage o Bari
	Coat airms
	Bari Location o Bari in Italy
	Coordinates: 41°07′31″N 16°52′0″E / 41.12528°N 16.86667°E
Kintra	Italy
Region	Apulie
Province	Bari (BA)
Govrenment
• Mayor	Michele Emiliano (Democratic Pairty)
Area
• Total	116 km2 (45 sq mi)
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population (31 December 2010)
• Total	320,475
• Density	2,800/km2 (7,200/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Baresi
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	70121-70132
Diallin code	080
Patron saunt	Saunt Nicholas
Saunt day	May 8
Website	Offeecial wabsteid

Bari listen (help·info) (Bari dialect: Bàre; frae Laitin: Barium) is the caipital ceety o the province o Bari an o the Apulie (or, in Italian, Puglia) region, on the Adriatic Sea, in Italy. It is the seicont maist important economic centre o mainland Soothren Italy efter Naples, an is weel kent as a port an university ceety, as well as the ceety o Saunt Nicholas. The ceety itsel haes a decreasin population o aboot 320,000, ower 116 km², while the fast-growin urban aurie coonts 653,028 inhabitants ower 203 km². Anither 500,000 fowk live in the metropolitan aurie.

Bari is made up o fower different urban sections. Tae the north is the closely biggit auld toun on the peninsula atween twa modren harbours, wi the splendid Basilica o Saunt Nicholas, the Cathedral o San Sabino (1035–1171) an the Swabian Castle biggit for Frederick II, which is nou an aa a major nichtlife destrict. Tae the sooth is the Murat quarter (erectit bi Joachim Murat), the modren hert o the ceety, which is laid oot on a rectangular grid-plan wi a promenade on the sea an the major shoppin destrict (the via Sparano an via Argiro).

Modren residential zones surroond the centre o Bari, the result o chaotic development durin the 1960s an 1970s replacin the auld suburbs that haed developed alang roads splaying ootwards frae gates in the ceety walls. In addition, the ooter suburbs hae developed rapidly durin the 1990s. The ceety haes a redeveloped airport named efter Pape John Paul II, Karol Wojtyła Airport, wi connections tae several European ceeties.