Canosa di Puglia Attractions

16km/10mi north of Minervino Murge is Canosa di Puglia (105m/347ft; pop. 31,000), built on the site of the important Roman town of Canusium. There are remains of Roman walls, a town gate (to the west, outside the modern town) and the ruins of an amphitheater of some size (near the station). The principal church, San Sabino, contains eighteen ancient columns; in the choir is a marble bishop's throne supported by elephants (1078-89, by Romualdus) and in the nave a marble pulpit (c. 1120). In the court to the south (entered from the south aisle) is the chapel, with a massive bronze door by Rogerius of Melfi, where Prince Boemond of Taranto (d. 1111), ruler of the Latin principality of Antioch is buried.