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Ancient Monuments of Siponto

Several findings, including the most significant are the stars Daunian, slabs carved funeral VIII - VI centuries BC, show that the plain south of the Gargano was inhabited since Neolithic times. The area was the site of an important settlement dauno, Siponto, which was later Hellenized and became one of the more northern ports of Magna Graecia. At this period the legend of a foundation by the Homeric hero Diomedes. First conquered by the Samnites and later by Alexander of Epirus in 335 BC, became a Roman colony in 189 BC, while keeping alive its strategic and commercial importance.

episcopal seat from 465, was an important center Siponto between the fourth and fifth century and was built there an early Christian basilica. A long period between the Lombards and Byzantines, was destroyed by them in the seventh century during the reign of Constans II. Rebuilt was briefly belonged to Saracens in the ninth century and became home to one of 12 counties Norman.

Siponto suffered heavy destruction to the earthquakes of 1223 in 1255, after which there were probably bradyseism phenomena that brought down the city in ruins.

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