{
  "project": "Small Guide",
  "type": "city",
  "city": "Bari",
  "local_city_name": "Bari",
  "place_line": "Bari / Puglia",
  "country": "Italy",
  "curator": "André Ribeirinho",
  "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Small, edited lists of places, curated by André.",
  "url": "https://smallguide.to/bari",
  "updated": "July 2026",
  "symbols": {
    "◎": "Soulful",
    "◌": "Planned (not yet visited)"
  },
  "places": [
    {
      "name": "Bari Vecchia",
      "slug": "bari-vecchia",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Arco Basso",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Walk the narrow streets of the old town and its kitchen is out in the open: women at their doorsteps shaping orecchiette by hand, the little ears drying on wooden boards, made this way for generations and sold to take home.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Porto Antico",
      "slug": "porto-antico",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Bari Vecchia",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The old harbour at the edge of the old town; fishing boats, sea air, and Bari opening toward the Adriatic.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Ristorante Biancofiore",
      "slug": "ristorante-biancofiore",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Murat",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Eat",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Contemporary Puglian cooking with particular attention to fish and the ingredients of the Adriatic coast.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Polignano a Mare",
      "slug": "polignano-a-mare",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Adriatic coast",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A whitewashed old town perched on cliffs straight above the Adriatic, a cove wedged between the rocks and sea caves below; also the birthplace of Domenico Modugno, who gave the world “Volare”.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Monopoli",
      "slug": "monopoli",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Adriatic coast",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A working port and whitewashed centro storico just down the coast; fishing boats in the old harbour, a baroque cathedral, and less of a crowd than its famous neighbour.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Alberobello",
      "slug": "alberobello",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Valle d’Itria",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The trulli town; whole districts of conical drystone houses, UNESCO-listed and busy, but those roofs exist nowhere else.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Ostuni",
      "slug": "ostuni",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Valle d’Itria",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "La Città Bianca; a hilltop maze of lime-washed lanes inland, with the walls, the whitewash, and olive plains rolling down to the sea.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Matera",
      "slug": "matera",
      "city": "Bari",
      "local_city_name": "Bari",
      "area": "Basilicata",
      "country": "Italy",
      "category": "Beyond",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Across the border into Basilicata: the Sassi, a labyrinth of cave dwellings and rock churches carved into a ravine and lived in for millennia; cleared in shame in the 1950s, now one of the most extraordinary places in the south.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    }
  ]
}