HOTEL EXCELSIOR BARI – BY FARACE HOTELS

Hotel Excelsior Bari stands on Via Giulio Petroni, a quiet residential address in the northern part of the city, roughly midway between the university campus and the business district. The hotel offers a restaurant, bar, buffet breakfast, conference rooms and a banquet hall — practical infrastructure for both leisure and corporate stays. Luggage storage, safe-deposit facilities, and a garden complete the house services. The property is a comfortable base for exploring Bari's two faces: the ordered Murat district with its straight boulevards, boutiques, and the seafront Lungomare; and Bari Vecchia, where the Romanesque Basilica di San Nicola holds the crypt of Saint Nicholas (built 1087) and the towering Castello Svevo guards the coast. Pasta nonnas work their orecchiette in the alley markets, the Teatro Petruzzelli schedules opera year-round, and the port connects southward across the Adriatic to Croatia and Albania.