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==Main sights== *''Il Pulo'' is one of the most important [[Neolithic]] sites of southern Italy. It is a circular cave {{convert|23|m|ft}} deep with grottoes and remains of old constructions. *The Old Cathedral (''[[:it:Duomo di San Corrado]]'') was built in the twelfth–thirteenth centuries in Apulian-Romanesque style, using local stone on a [[basilica]] plan, a nave with two aisles divided by four central cross-shaped pilasters. The floor has two domes. From the apse area rise two {{convert|20|m|ft|adj=on}} towers, one of which acted as watchtower, the other has the usual [[campanile]]. The interior has some notable religious furnishings from the sixteenth century. *Several watchtowers, such as the ''Torre Calderina'' (fifteenth century) on the seaside, and the ''Torrione Passari'', inglobated in the town's walls. *The [[Molfetta Cathedral|New Cathedral]], or church of ''S. Maria Assunta in Cielo'', was built by the [[Jesuits]] from 1610. It houses the remains of the city's patron, ''San Corrado of Bavaria'', in a silver reliquary bust of the saint (seventeenth century) by [[G. Todaro]]. *The church of ''San Bernardino da Siena'' (1451, rebuilt in 1585) includes a triptych by [[Duccio d'Andrea]] (fifteenth century) and other later paintings. Notable is the Renaissance choir. The annexed convent is now the Palazzo Civico (town hall). *The church of ''Santo Stefano'', built from 1286, but with a Renaissance stone façade added in 1586. *''Palazzo Giovene'' is a 16th-century palace, now used as Town Hall. It has a notable Renaissance style portal. *The church of ''Santa Maria Consolatrice degli Afflitti'', simply known as Chiesa del Purgatorio, dating from 1643 and consecrated in 1667. The façade has statues representing Sts. Stephen, Peter, Paul and Lawrence and, on the two side summits, those of St. Joaquim and St. Anne. The interior houses paintings by [[Bernardo Cavallino]] and native-son [[Corrado Giaquinto]]. *The church of ''San Pietro Apostolo'', simply called "San Pietro's Church", just existing in the twelfth century, but with the actual [[Baroque]] façade and bell tower, situated in the old town, at the begin of the street of the some name, near the Municipio Square. *The ''Temple of Calvary'', a small Neo-Gothic construction built in 1856 and designed by the local architect [[Corrado De Judicibus]]. *Two km outside the city in the direction of [[Bisceglie]], is the basilica-sanctuary of the ''Madonna dei Martiri''. The current nave of the church is partially built over the old eleventh-century church, of which only a dome and the underlying structure remain, in today's altar area. Annexed is the Crusaders Hospital, also from the eleventh century. The basilica conserves an image that was a votive gift of some Crusaders in 1188. * The [[Molfetta Lighthouse]] on the eastern pier; still active today.
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