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Bari, like many Italian towns, has a lot of monuments. One of them is a huge Romanesque building with a characteristic austere form - the Basilica of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of the city. And there, in addition to the relics of the saint, is the tomb of Queen Bona. The impulse to erect this building at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries was the transfer from Myra (today's Turkey) to Bari of the relics of the patron saint of the basilica. His body was buried here in 1087. The building served as a defensive fortress many times in the old days. Currently, the custodians of the basilica are Dominicans.