Lucera, Italy Tourism

18km/11mi west of Foggia, on a plateau above the wide Apulian plain, is Lucera (219m/723ft; pop. 34,000), the ancient Luceria. The town was developed into an important stronghold, the key to Apulia, by the Emperor Frederick II, and populated by 20,000 Saracens brought in from Sicily between 1233 and 1245. Most of the population was killed by