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BrindisiItaly
Brindisi (in Latin Brundusium, Brundisium) is an ancient city in the Italian region of Puglia. It had 100,000 inhabitants and was important because of its large natural harbour, and is still today a major embarkment-point to Greece. In 245 BC or 267 BC it was conquered by the Romans. The famous Roman poet Virgil died here on September 19, 19 BC. Later Brindisi was conquered by Ostrogoths, and reconquered by the Byzantine Empire, who ruled Brindisi until 1070 and invasion of Normans. In 836 Brindisi was burned by Saracen pirates. Later, from 1268, Brindisi was ruled by the Angevins, and then by the Aragonese, Venetia and Spain in turn, falling to Austrian rule in 1707-1734, and afterwards to the Bourbons. Between September 1943 and February 1944 the city functioned as the temporary capital of Italy. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details). About Wikipedia Disclaimers This information was correct in December 2005. E. & O.E.
During 1978, Sarolta, my daughter and I had a fairly extensive look around in Italy, many of it's cities, architectural, monumental, artistic and natural treasures. We did enjoy our tripping around. Brindisi was very enjoyable.
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