By Air

Brindisi is home to the Papola-Casale Airport, located 6 km outside the city's center.The airport of Brindisi has daily connections with major Italian and European cities.The airport, located 6 km (3.73 mi) from the city center, serves the entire province of Brindisi to Lecce and partly that of Taranto. In 2007, a total of 929,854 passengers have passed through.The airport, is named in memory of Horace Pierozzi, airman of the Second World War. It has two runways, one in NW-SE 2,628 m long, the other NE-SW long 1,970 m.Their characteristics are such as to allow the landing large transport aircraft such as the Antonov An-124.The placement of the airport in the Mediterranean area, along with its natural potential multimodal (the port is a few kilometers away), have made it the basis of strategic importance, both for national defense and NATO. For the same strategic reasons, the airport was chosen as the main logistics base worldwide by the United Nations to support peacekeeping and peace enforcement operations around the globe. From the UN base in Brindisi, food and humanitarian aid is directed to the most remote and devastated regions in Africa and Eastern Europe.

By Train

Rail transport is catered for by Brindisi railway station, an important Apulian railway junction, and a meeting point between the Adriatic Railway and the Taranto–Brindisi railway. The station is managed by Centostazioni, and links Brindisi with all the destinations served by the Adriatic and Ionian coasts.

By Bus

The Public Transport Company of Brindisi, provides public transport in the city and the link with the other municipalities in the province. Moreover, the company provides the transportation service by sea into inland waters of the port of Brindisi. Brindisi is also a major ferry port, with routes to Greece and elsewhere.

By Ferry

The port of Brindisi always been at the center of trade with Greece. It is one of the most important commercial and industrial marinas on the Adriatic Sea. The commerce is mostly coal, fuel oil, natural gas, and chemicals. The port consists of three parts.The Outer Harbour: the limits of which are in the southern mainland, east of the Pedagne islands and west of the island from the pier in Costa.The port is formed by the average area of sea that is before the channel Pigott, access to the inner harbor, the basin to the north as the Strait of Puglia.The inner harbor is formed by two long wings that touch the heart of Brindisi both the north and east, they are the "bosom of the west" and "within the east."

By Road

The main roads are represented by Bari-Lecce expressway, connecting with Brindisi, Lecce, with Bari and the A14.Adriatica SS 16 is the Brindisi bypass connecting the city to San Vito dei Normanni and Lecce Brindisi-Taranto Brindisi with Taranto.

F. Ribezzo Provincial Archaeological Museum, Diocesan Museum John Tarantini, Tancredi Fountain, Palace-Granafei Nervegna, New Theatre Giuseppe Verdi, Salina Regional Natural Park of Punta della Contessa

F. Ribezzo Provincial Archaeological Museum

is located in Piazza Duomo and has many large rooms, providing visitors with six sections: epigraphy, sculpture, the antiquarium, prehistoric, coins, medieval, modern and bronzes of Punta del Serrone.The first was the seat of the Civic Museum in the mid nineteenth century the church of St. John at the Sepulchre on the initiative of Canon John Tarantini : soon become inadequate, it was decided by the Provincial Administration to recover the spaces left by the old hospital adjacent to the cathedral to target it to the Museum.During the works, interesting finds were made in the subsoil. The new museum was opened in 1958 and we came together, in addition to the civic collection, the many antiquities that surfaced over the interent building in the historic center and in the countries of the Province.In 1992 it was enriched with the findings of Punta del Serrone divers, consisting of beautiful bronze statues in fragments. Meanwhile, already have become free spaces for offices, the Museum has been able to find new rooms and spaces for exhibitions.

Diocesan Museum John Tarantini

is newly established and is housed in the Palazzo del Seminario.It has a collection of paintings, statues, ornaments and vestments from the churches of the diocese.Particularly important is the silver embossed Ark that has the remains of San Teodoro and a seventh century pitcher, in which one can recognize the wedding at Cana.In the lobby are stone materials related to the factory of the Cathedral and churches of the historic center, in particular stone statue of San Rocco ( XVI - XVII century ) and church bell of St. Anne, the teacher Bartholomew ( fourteenth century ).The rooms have exposed the Idria serpentine marble made ​​in the eighth century in Egypt, the reliquary of St. Theodore, a work of gold south of the thirteenth or fourteenth century, in silver plates embossed with scenes from the life of the Holy remains of Eastern tissue ( samite ) of the thirteenth century from the shrine of St. Theodore, the wooden lectern church of St. Benedict of 1665.

Tancredi Fountain

is a fountain which is monumental Brindisi, on the route of the ancient Appian Way (the present road to San Vito ) not far from the entrance to the city.It was built to give the possibility to transport animals to drink water that came into town, but also to allow the irrigation of the fields in the area.It is believed that there was a fountain on this site since Roman times. However, the current one was built in 1192 by the will by the Norman King Tancred of Sicily on the occasion of the marriage between his son, Roger, and Princess Irene Angel, daughter of the Byzantine emperor Isaac II, which took place in the Cathedral of Brindisi.

Palace-Granafei Nervegna

is a historic building in Brindisi, in Via Duomo.The family was originally from Granafei Constantinople from which he fled when he was captured by the Turks of Mohammed II, seeking refuge in Oria.In 1508 he moved to Brindisi as Ferdinand of Aragon offered numerous incentives to repopulate the town of Salento.The palace passed to Nervegna in the eighteenth century when Granafei decided to move to Mesa.The building originates, at least in its original core, in 1565 the owner is Nicholas Granafei.The building has a Renaissance style with some baroque influences, especially evident in the balconies.

New Theatre Giuseppe Verdi

was inaugurated on 20 December 2006 after a long bureaucratic process made ​​infinity all agibilita issues.Designed in the seventies, the theater is known for being the city opened three times, twice in the first but was later declared unfit for use for inadequate internal infrastructure.In December 2006, was finally inaugurated with a grand concert conducted by Riccardo Muti.It is located in the center of the city and on a archaeological site from Roman times to visit by a top elevation of the theater to the road surface (hence the name "Theatre suspended").The structure thus conceived is unique in its kind in the world.The theater has a surface of 4,500 square meters total, and a volume of 40 thousand cubic meters.Along the bottom of the main hall (738 seats) are two galleries (respectively 351 and 83 spectators). The total capacity is 1172 seats.

Salina Regional Natural Park of Punta della Contessa

is an oasis of protection and the SPA of Brindisi from the Cape of Torre Cavallo and Punta della Contessa.The area is characterized by large reservoirs of fresh water along the coast and numerous channels that descend to the sea, picking up the rain water.These basins are located at some distance from the sea separated by dunes are not particularly large and can not prevent some storms, allowing sea water to reach the docks.The oasis is very important from the point of view birds especially in the channel "Foggia Rau" where you can also find the turtle Emys orbicularis, population, however, knows a decreasing population in recent decades.

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