The audioguide tells the storyplot, explains the architecture and reports interesting facts about the basilica of St. Nicholas, widely known especially because it preserves the continues to be from the Saint Nicholas. Bari continues to be known since Roman moments. It was dominated from the Byzantine and longobards, in the 9th hundred years and by the Greeks and Arabs, after that it became the administrative centre of Longobardia and in the X hundred years it had been the residence from the Catapan, Byzantine governor.

Although the city was conquered by about Basilica of San Nicola. Bari. Italy the Normans, in 1071 it maintained its Byzantine ethnic heritage and the local clergy continued to be Byzantine. The basilica is usually full of unique Byzantine bas-reliefs. In the gallery Byzantine capitals with carved pets and motifs are on display. Within this museum there are also slabs and fragments of monuments through the VI-XII century created by Byzantine college experts. A commemorative plaque in the south matroneo and the presbyteral enclosure (1130-1140) decorated with floral motifs in the Byzantine design, testifies to a solid Byzantine impact in the art of the XII century. One of the most essential pieces on display is a low marble relief, probably originally portion of a pulpit. It depicts an angel using the book in the left hand and with the proper hand raised, that’s, in the cause of a instructor.

Underneath the transept there is a crypt. The environment is very rich, with 36 bays and 36 vaults, supported by columns with several capitals, Byzantine and late Byzantine, many of them produced between 1087 and 1089.

Within a corner of the crypt there’s a column of porphyrus, isolated in an inferriate. It really is considered miraculous and is an important place for pilgrimage. Regarding to legend, it was miraculously brought here by Mira, and put into the crypt by St. Nicholas personally for the eve of his consecration. You are able to examine the 3D style of the church and observe its interior through the MuByz App. The audioguide continues to be made by experts in the field of history and artwork.