Metropolitan City of Bari

Metropolitan City in Apulia, Italy

Metropolitan City of Bari

Città metropolitana di Bari (Italian)

Metropolitan City

The Provincial Building of Bari, today, the institutional headquarters of the Metropolitan City of Bari

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Country|  Italy
Region| Apulia
Capital(s)| Bari
Comuni| 41
Government

• Metropolitan Mayor| Vito Leccese
Area

• Total

| 3,825 km2 (1,477 sq mi)
Population

(2025)[1]

• Total

| 1,218,191
• Density| 320/km2 (820/sq mi)
GDP

[2]

• Metro| €28.220 billion (2015)
• Per capita| €22,945 (2015)
Time zone| UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)| UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code|

70001–70100

Telephone prefix| 080, 0883
Vehicle registration| BA
ISTAT| 272[3]

The Metropolitan City of Bari (Italian: città metropolitana di Bari) is a metropolitan city in the Apulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Bari. It replaced the province of Bari and includes the city of Bari and some forty other comuni (sg.: comune). It was first created by the reform of local authorities (Law 142/1990) and then established by the Law 56/2014. It has been operative since January 1, 2015.

The Metropolitan City of Bari is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor (sindaco metropolitano) and by the Metropolitan Council (consiglio metropolitano). Since 1 January 2015 Antonio Decaro, as mayor of the capital city, has been the first mayor of the Metropolitan City.

It has an area of 3,825 km2 (1,477 sq mi) and a population of 1,218,191 as of 2025.[1]

Historical populationYear| Pop.| ±%

|
|

1951| 928,366| —
1961| 981,507| +5.7%
1971| 1,060,037| +8.0%
1981| 1,154,535| +8.9%
1991| 1,202,704| +4.2%
2001| 1,218,038| +1.3%
2011| 1,247,303| +2.4%
2021| 1,226,784| −1.6%
Source: ISTAT

## Geography

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Overlooking the Adriatic Sea in south-eastern Italy, the Metropolitan City of Bari is located in the central part of Apulia and is bordered on the west by the provinces of Matera and Potenza, to the north by the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, and to the south by the provinces of Taranto and Brindisi. The old province of Bari was formerly a part of the region of Terra di Bari, which once included the towns of Fasano and Cisternino, now in the province of Brindisi.[4]

The area is dominated by the Murgia hills in the inner part, a karst plateau which is the home of the Alta Murgia National Park, one of the newest national parks in Italy, established in 2004.[5] Only the Bari hinterland and the coastal strip are flat. The north of the province, with Bari, Altamura, Bitonto, Corato, Gravina in Puglia, and Molfetta, is heavily populated. The south, on the contrary, does not have large population centers; its only southern municipality near 50,000 inhabitants is Monopoli. In the southern part, on the border with Taranto, is the Itria Valley, between the towns of Alberobello, Locorotondo, Cisternino and Martina Franca. Bari is largely devoid of rivers and lakes, although underground rivers in the karst landscape have formed numerous caves, including those of Castellana and Putignano.[6]

### Cities and comunes

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Main article: Comuni of the Metropolitan City of Bari

With the establishment of the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani in 2004, in addition to the provincial capitals, the province of Bari lost another four municipalities: Bisceglie, Canosa di Puglia, Minervino Murge and Spinazzola. This left the remaining Province of Bari with 41 comuni and an adjusted population of 1,248,084 as of the 2005 census.[7]

* Acquaviva delle Fonti
* Adelfia
* Alberobello
* Altamura
* Bari
* Binetto
* Bitetto
* Bitonto
* Bitritto
* Capurso
* Casamassima
* Castellana Grotte
* Cellamare
* Conversano
* Corato
* Gioia del Colle
* Giovinazzo
* Gravina in Puglia
* Grumo Appula
* Locorotondo
* Modugno
* Mola di Bari
* Molfetta
* Monopoli
* Noci
* Noicattaro
* Palo del Colle
* Poggiorsini
* Polignano a Mare
* Putignano
* Rutigliano
* Ruvo di Puglia
* Santeramo in Colle
* Sannicandro di Bari
* Terlizzi
* Toritto
* Triggiano
* Turi
* Valenzano

## Government

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### List of Metropolitan Mayors of Bari

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| Metropolitan Mayor  | Term start  | Term end  | Party

|
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|
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1 | Antonio Decaro | 1 January 2015  | 9 July 2024  | Democratic Party
2 | Vito Leccese | 9 July 2024  | Incumbent | Democratic Party

## Economy

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The arable land in the province of Bari is exploited with the cultivation of olive and grapes, but also cherries, peaches, and almonds. From that agricultural activity is derived olive oil, wine and table grapes.[8] Bitonto is especially noted for its extra virgin olive oil, and Corato (with the Coratina olive variety) and Giovinazzo are along notable producing areas. The centers of wine production are mainly concentrated in Gravina and Ruvo di Puglia, in the north of Bari, and Adelfia, Noicattaro, Rutigliano and Locorotondo, in the south of Bari. Also important is the production of cherries; the Apulian red is especially prevalent in the countryside of Turi and Putignano.[9]

## See also

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* Province of Bari

## References

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1. ^ a b "Monthly Demographic Balance". ISTAT.
2. ^ Regions and Cities > Regional Statistics > Regional Economy > Regional Gross Domestic Product (Small regions TL3) Archived 2019-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, OECD.Stats. Accessed on 16 November 2018.
3. ^ "Codici delle città metropolitane al 1° gennaio 2017". www.istat.it (in Italian). 23 December 2016. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
4. ^ Iaccarino, Luca (2011). Puglia e Basilicata (in Italian). EDT srl. p. 27\. ISBN 978-88-6040-798-6.
5. ^ Hardy, Paula; Hole, Abigail; Pozzan, Olivia (2008). Basilicata. Lonely Planet. p. 54\. ISBN 978-1-74179-089-4.
6. ^ Christoph, Jacqueline (2 May 2014). DuMont Reise-Handbuch Reiseführer Süditalien. DuMont Reiseverlag. p. 333\. ISBN 978-3-7701-7750-9.
7. ^ "Statistiche". Upinet.it. Archived from the original on 7 August 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
8. ^ Lago, Enrico Dal (2005). Agrarian Elites: American Slaveholders and Southern Italian Landowners, 1815-1861. LSU Press. p. 202\. ISBN 978-0-8071-3087-2.
9. ^ Rivista di frutticoltura e di ortofloricoltura (in Italian). Grupo Giornalistico Edagricole. 1997. p. 20.

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