Barletta

Barletta is a city in Apulia, in Italy.

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It is famous for the colossus of Barletta, a bronze statue, probably representing Roman Emperor Theodosius II. It is famous for the Disfida of Barletta too.

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Apulia: Apulia (official Italian name: Puglia) is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Otranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its southern portion known as Salento, a peninsula, forms the heel of the Italian "boot." T...

Italy: Italy (Italian: Repubblica Italiana or Italia) is a country in southern Europe. It comprises a boot-shaped peninsula and two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia, and shares its northern alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia. The independent countries...

Colossus of Barletta: The Colossus of Barletta is a bronze statue of a Eastern Roman emperor, more than twice life size (5.11 meters), placed in Barletta, Apulia, on the Adriatic....