Piazza Mercantile
Lively square in Bari’s old town, known for its cafes and historic sites
About Piazza Mercantile
Bari
At the edge of Borgo Vecchio is the pleasant Piazza Mercantile, whose plentiful sidewalk cafés and restaurants are popular local meeting places. Not so pleasant was the fate of petty criminals and debtors who in the Middle Ages were tied to the Colonna della Giustizia, a column in the corner of the piazza, for public ridicule. A much-worn stone lion stands beside the column. Piazza Mercantile blends at one end into Piazza del Ferrarese, a broad space overlooking the marina and the sea. Here, you’ll find the triple apse of the Romanesque Vallisa church, one of the city’s oldest, and behind it, the remains of the Appia Traiana, a Roman road built in the early second century.
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