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Altamura, in brief.

Pane di Altamura DOP bread, Frederick II cathedral.

A town on the Alta Murgia famous across Italy for its bread, the dense, golden-crusted Pane di Altamura, the country's first DOP loaf.

Its old center turns around a Romanesque-Gothic cathedral founded by Frederick II.

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