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Taranto, the Italian Seafood Queen
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Taranto celebrates Good Friday
While Italy is under lockdown, Easter traditions are kept alive.
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Tarantella – The night of the tarantula dance
In the Italian province of Taranto, Apulia, the bite of a locally common type of wolf spider, named “tarantula” after the region, was popularly believed to be highly venomous and to lead to a hysterical condition known as tarantism. This became known as the Tarantella.
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Gli ori di Taranto – a treasure trove in a neglected city
Testimony of the wealth of Magna Grecia and the goldsmiths’ skills of the artisans of the Greek polis, the Ori di Taranto are on display at the national archaeological museum of Taranto.
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Bari: another gem in the south of Italy
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