Foggia
— — the flat country where the wheat goes gold.
Not only on a wall.
“A wheat-country capital on the Tavoliere, the largest plain in peninsular Italy, north of Bari and inland from the Adriatic coast. Long, level fields run out from the city to the Gargano in the east and the Subappennino in the west. The cathedral and the older lanes carry the bones of the medieval town; the rest was largely rebuilt after the heavy Allied bombing of 1943. from the studio
Foggia, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Foggia is the capital of the Province of Foggia in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy, set on the Tavoliere delle Puglie, the largest plain in peninsular Italy at roughly four thousand square kilometres. The city sits about seventy-five metres above sea level, inland from the Adriatic and west of the Gargano promontory. The population is near a hundred and forty-five thousand. The surrounding plain is the dominant wheat-growing region of southern Italy and has been farmed since the Roman colonisation of Daunia in the third century BCE.
The Cathedral of Foggia, Santa Maria Icona Vetere, holds a medieval Romanesque crypt below an upper church largely rebuilt in the Baroque after the 1731 earthquake levelled much of the older fabric. The cathedral keeps the Icona Vetere, a Byzantine-style panel of the Madonna long venerated as the city's protector. Allied bombing in the summer of 1943 destroyed an estimated three-quarters of the urban core because of Foggia's role as a rail and airfield hub. Most of the post-war rebuilding kept the medieval street grid.
The Tavoliere runs through a hard Mediterranean cycle: cool, wet winters and very hot, dry summers, with July averages above thirty degrees Celsius and almost no rain through July and August. Durum-wheat sowing happens in November and the harvest comes through in June, which is when the plain turns the gold the region is known for. The Capitanata irrigation network, drawing from the Fortore River and the Occhito reservoir, sustains the tomatoes, olives, and vines that share the land with the grain.