Andria

Andria is a city of 100 thousand¹ located in a karst plateau in the Barletta-Andria-Trani Province in the Puglia² Region of Italia.³ It is known for the 13th century Castel del Monte, said to combine classical, Islamic and European Cistercian Christian Gothic elements, and, to unusually lack many outbuildings typical of military fortifications of that time.⁴

External references

Castel del Monte, Andria, Barletta-Andria-Trani Province, Puglia Region, Italia

Footnotes

1. 2011 figure from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Italy, accessed January 7, 2018.
2. Apulia in English.
3. Italy in English.
4. UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).