Barrier-free tours Gravina

Art and culture are for everyone, including the disabled. We have created a tour for you.
The tour will begin with a visit to the current cathedral of the city, theCo-cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta. Built right on the edge of the ravine overlooked by the city, a true masterpiece belonging to the Norman era, Gravina’s main place of worship and, full of works of art that will leave you speechless. You have to know, moreover, that under the floor of the Cathedral there is the lower church, with three naves, which was used as an ossuary until 1633.
A littlefurther on, you will reach theChurch of the Purgatory, full of works of art that will leave you open-mouthed, built as the family mortuary chapel at the behest of Duke Ferdinand III, and dedicated to Santa Maria del Suffragio for the celebration of masses dedicated to the souls in purgatory.you will be interested to know that after the death of the duke, the duchess enlarged the church by adding the presbytery surmounted by a dome perfectly equal in structure to the dome of St. Peter’s in Rome.
Continue thetour with a visit to theCrypt of San Vito Vecchiowhich, with its frescoes, will allow you to experience a total immersion in history.The first figure that will capture your attention, on the back wall, is the great Christ Pantocrator seated on a throne, blessing with his right hand and holding a “Book” open on a passage from the Gospel of St. John with his left hand.
You will then reachtheEttore Pomarici Foundation Museumwhose foundation was set up in 1920 just three years after the death of Baron Pomarici Santomasi, who wanted to leave his palace and the goods it contained as a gift to the city so that it could become a Museum and Library.
On theground floor you can visit the rooms where the family’s period costumes are exhibited, on the first floor you can visit the family’s apartment and, finally, on the second floor you will find the museum that houses an archaeological collection with important findings discovered during the excavations carried out in the area of Botromagno.
Continuethe tour by reaching theAqueduct Bridge, located on the ravine of the river, at the junction of the new city to the old one, several times protagonist of important movie sets, such as for the 007 movie “No Time to Die “.Checco Zalone’s “Tolo Tolo”, Garrone’s “Pinocchio”, Scamarcio’s “The Last Paradise”, “Captain Maria”, “Maria Magdalena” and others.
From here, you will proceed to the necropolis of theEternal Father, the first archaeological area excavated by researchers, which takes its name from the Padre Eterno church next to which it stands. As well as being a necropolis, the Padre Eterno area was also an inhabited area and it is likely that there was an artisan’s quarter given the discovery of cisterns, channels, aqueducts, loom weights and kilns.