In the square remains of an ancient church one apse with three aisles dedicated to Our Lady of Good Counsel were found.
Excavations from 1982 to 1984 discovered three different stages of the building, the most recent dating from the eighteenth century, the oldest medieval attributable to centuries IX / X and XI / XII.
Of the earliest phase there is a precious mosaic floor with octagonal marble and polychrome terracotta tiles making geometric and vegetal patters, unfortunately preserved only in small patches.
To the XI-XII centuries belongs instead the mosaic floor made of limestone and polychrome marble blocks placed in the nave of the church. There are fourteen boxes composing geometric and plant figures; lateral rows are made with blocks of larger size. The pieces, probably elements of reuse, make patterns such as checkerboard, wheels, scales, flowers, arranged in a regular composition scheme.
Above the ruins, in a stone wall a Latin inscription recalls an episode of drought, a problem that has always plagued Bari in the past.
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