Via Venezia, the so-called "Muraglia-Wall" of Bari, is a must for locals, visitors and tourists who want to enjoy a pleasant stroll and admire almost the entire seafront of Bari. From here where the sea meets the land the Baresi have lived through historical moments of both joy and worry. They have been attacked and witnessed the approaching Turks and pirate ships, yet it’s here that they have also greeted friends and laughed at their enemies. On entering Piazza Ferrarese, passing the fish market on your right, you can get to Via Venezia (to the south), which via a ramp, made by destroying part of the old wall, it gradually makes it way towards the Fortino of Saint Antonio Abate. These ramparts together with the Fort of St. Scolastica (to the north), are the only ones to have survived the campaign of demolition in the 1800s, which led to the destruction of the other two original towers of Saint Dominic and del Vento. The south side of the Wall is adorned, at the base, by a series of aligned columns salvaged from Roman temples and buildings, including one purchased by Isabella Sforza, from the church of Saint Gregory de Falconibus, and the milestone n. 128 of Via Traiana that, connecting Benevento to Brindisi, passed through Bari. The noble buildings (eg. palazzo Tanzi) and public housing with courtyards, alleys and stairs which line the road are occasionally interspersed by the static nature of the walls. Going north you can clearly see the outline of the Basilica of Saint Nicholas (on the left there’s a staircase which accesses the Strada Palazzo di Città, which initially runs along the eastern side of the Basilica itself) and on the right the modern seafront can be seen, built in 1931 which runs up to the ramparts of St. Scolastica (on the right, at the end of the walk , steps take you to the seafront Emperor Augustus; once you leave it and head to the left you reach the entrance of the Archaeological Museum St. Scolastica), the most impressive part of the Great Wall, built in the time of Bona Sforza . The Fort of St. Scolastica up to the castle walls, was abruptly destroyed in the thirties along with the 13th century "Porta di Mare", and can now be reconstructed hypothetically. Of the oldest part of the city wall which we have left, only faint traces remain from the fourth century BC, but of the imposing medieval setting, which maintained its integrity until the early nineteenth century, survives in a stretch of four hundred metres separating the old town and the waterfront and continues to pose a severe warning for those visiting Bari, the ancient Queen of the Adriatic.