Monte Sant'Angelo

Pilgrims have climbed to Monte Sant'Angelo since the Archangel Michael is said to have appeared in a cave here in 490, and the grotto sanctuary is now a UNESCO site as one of the places of Lombard power in Italy. The town stands on a wooded spur of the Gargano above the Gulf of Manfredonia, its Junno quarter a maze of whitewashed single-storey houses and low stairways.

Highlights

• The cave sanctuary of San Michele Arcangelo, with bronze doors of 1076
• The castle's pentagonal Torre dei Giganti, said to be haunted by Bianca Lancia
• The so-called Tomb of Rothari, a 12th-century baptistery with carved portal (IT)
• The whitewashed lanes of the Rione Junno
• The Foresta Umbra, the ancient forest of the Gargano (IT)

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.