"If Paris were on the sea, it would look like a small Bari..."!

People from Bari love to repeat that "if Paris were on the sea, it would look like a small Bari"!
It is a joke, of course, but it says a lot about the pride (and sense of humour!) in our area.
Ours is a city with a deep sense of history and art, with very rich cultural roots living together with a modern business outlook. Bari was already an important city under the Greeks, then it became a Roman municipality and was later ruled by the Saracens, the Venetians, the Normans, the Aragons and finally the Bourbons, before becoming part of the united Italy.
Our dialect is a mixture of all these influences, and many people still speak it in private situations, with the family, or with friends. Among young people vernacular words are often used as a kind of slang.
This is a nice video we have found on YouTube, which contains several pictures of the city and uses a traditional song in Bari dialect as soundtrack.
Enjoy it!
By Vanya and her class