Ruvo di Puglia - Concattedrale di Ruvo di Puglia

Ruvo di Puglia, founded probably by Greek settlers, was a "municipium" in Roman times. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it got destroyed by Visigothic troops in the 5th centuryand later again by the Lombards. It was then Byzantine and later under Saracen and the Norman power.

The Ruvo Cathedral, once the episcopal seat of the Diocese of Ruvo, is now a co-cathedral in the Diocese of Molfetta-Ruvo-Giovinazzo-Terlizzi. It was built over a previous church and is an important example of late Apulian Romanesque architecture, built between the 12th and 13th centuries.

The church's subterranean rooms include the remains of a Palaeo-Christian church (5th-6th centuries) and Roman and Peucetian tombs.

First traces of this church below the Romanesque one were discovered during renovation works in 1925. Investigations conducted in 1974/75 led to the discovery of the rich subsoil . It can be assumed that the cathedral was built on the rubble of a place that has always been frequented over the centuries by Peuceti, Romans and the medieval population.