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Barletta, in brief.

The Colossus bronze, Swabian castle, the Disfida.

An Adriatic city north of Bari, guarded by a great Swabian castle and home to the Colossus, a five-meter late-Roman bronze statue standing in the street.

It gives its name to the Disfida di Barletta, the famous 1503 duel between Italian and French knights.

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