Castellaneta Cathedral

Castellaneta (Tarantino: Castelanéte) is a city and comune in the province of Taranto in the Apulia region of Southern Italy, about 40 km (25 mi) from Taranto. Located in a territory spanning from the Murgia to the Ionian Sea, characterized by numerous gravina (ravines), it is part of the Comunità Montana della Murgia Tarantina (Tarentine Murgia Mountain Community).

The Diocese of Castellaneta (Latin: Dioecesis Castellanetensis) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in Apulia. It is a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Taranto.

Castellaneta is a railway station in Castellaneta, Italy. The station is located on the Bari–Taranto railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.

Palagianello (Tarantino: Palascianídde or Pulascianídde or Polescianídde) is a small town in the province of Taranto, Apulia, southeastern Italy.

Palagianello is a railway station in Palagianello, Italy. The station is located on the Bari–Taranto railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia. On 22 June 2008 the station was relocated to a brand new station south east of the town. This was as part of the upgrade of the route between Bari and Taranto. The old alignment of the track is now a cycle way through the centre of Palagianello.

San Basilio Mottola is a closed railway station in San Basilio, Italy. The station was located on the Bari–Taranto railway. Due to upgrading of the route, the line was doubled and realigned, which meant that a number of towns and villages were left without a railway station.

Casalrotto (medieval Latin: Casal Ruptum) was a medieval village (casalis) in the Murge in southern Italy between the 11th and 14th centuries. The remains of the village are located in a ravine beside an 18th-century farmhouse 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) southwest of Mottola.The village is generally thought to have grown up around the church of Sant'Angelo. This was probably a Greek foundation of the Byzantine period. Following the Norman conquest of Apulia, a policy of "latinization" and "catholicization" was adopted. In 1081, the monasterium Sancti Angeli in Casali Rupto was granted to the Benedictine monastery of La Trinità della Cava dei Tirreni. The dedication to Michael the Archangel, suggests that the church served a Lombard population, as the Lombards were especially devoted to that saint. In 1231, a judicial panel composed of Henry of Morra, Roffredo di San Germano and Pier della Vigna confirmed that Casalrotto belonged to La Cava against the claims of the nobleman Gualtiero Gentile.Casalrotto consists of about one hundred natural karst caves enlarged by human action to make residences and other spaces. Many residential caves had wooden partitions and carved niches. They also often had vegetable gardens enclosed by dry stone walls. Northwest of the residential area is a necropolis. To the northeast is a cave with traces of paint that might have been the church of Santa Maria, built between 1155 and 1165. To the southwest is the church of Sant'Angelo, a two-storey cave church with frescos from the 12th–14th centuries.Some of the residential caves, partially collapsed, had been reused as reservoirs in the 16th and 17th centuries. Today, the site lies in the Terra delle Gravine park. Archaeological investigations were undertaken in 1979 and 1982. There was evidence of decline already by the 13th century.

Mottola (Mottolese: Mòtele, IPA: [ˈmɔːtələ]) is a town and comune in the province of Taranto and region of Apulia in southeast Italy. It stands on a hill 387 metres (1,270 ft) above mean sea level in the sub-region of Murgia. It is also called "The Ionian Spy" for its strategic geographical position. From various points of the town all of the Gulf of Taranto can be seen. The economy is based mostly on agriculture and food production (olives, wine, citrus fruits, vegetables). Tourism and the manufacture of wooden fixtures are also being developed.

Martina Franca, or just Martina (Martinese: Marténe), is a town and municipality in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy. It is the second most populated town of the province after Taranto, and has a population (2016) of 49,086. Since 1975, the town has hosted the annual summer opera festival, the Festival della Valle d'Itria.

Palagiano is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, Apulia, southeast Italy. It is known as the "City of the Clementines" due to its production of the PGI product "Clementine del Golfo di Taranto".

Montursi (Mendurse in Bari dialect, or Murgia, as the whole region is commonly called) is a frazione or section of the comune of Gioia del Colle, in the Province of Bari, Apulia, southern Italy. It has approximately 700 inhabitants. The neighbouring settlements are Castellaneta, Laterza, Mottola (all in the Province of Taranto), Matera (in the Province of Matera) and Santeramo in Colle (in Bari).

Gioia del Colle is a railway station in Gioia del Colle, Italy. The station is located on the Bari–Taranto railway and Rocchetta Sant'Antonio-Gioia del Colle railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.