CULTURA Spinazzola is placed on a hill of the Murgia territory at 435 above the sea level, on the border between Apulia and Basilicata. The first settlement was a Statio Romana, a Roman station on the Via Appia. After various invasions of Langobards, Goths and Saracens, Normans and Swabians fortified the town. Landscape offers picturesque scenery, due to the presence of certain disused bauxite quarries. Worth visiting are the Madre San Pietro Apostolo church that probably dates back to the 14th century and the Templar Hospice of the 12th century, one of the first hospices to welcome and to give shelter to crusaders that travelled to or returned back from Jerusalem. Traces of the medieval walls are still visible too.

FOOD AND WINE This territory’s wealth are the subterranean springs that make the soil fertile and suitable for the cultivation of corn and vegetables, i.e. tomatoes. Local dishes are vegetables soup, baked bread and cime di rapa (local vegetable) with chili pepper, liver rolls on the spit, fried cartellate with honey or vincotto, sweets made of chickpeas, vincotto or cocoa.




EVENTS-ENTERTAINMENT Sagra degli Antichi Sapori, the fair of ancient flavours, that takes place in March in the old town where it’s possible to taste and buy all local products.