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Team Altamura
Team Altamura, sometimes referred to as just Altamura, is an Italian association football club located in Altamura, Apulia. Its colours are white and red. History The club was founded in 2003 as Real Altamura. Originally a minor club in the city of Altamura, they slowly became the top local team following the decline of US Altamura, who formerly played in the Serie C as well. In 2015, the club was renamed to Team Altamura and won promotion to Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ... in 2017. On 21 April 2024, Team Altamura won promotion to Serie C after mathematically winning the Group H title with two games to go. Current squad Out on loan References External links Official homepage Football clubs in Apulia Associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Altamura
Altamura (; ; ) is a town and ''comune'' of Apulia, in southern Italy. It is located on one of the hills of the Altopiano delle Murge, Murge plateau in the Metropolitan City of Bari, southwest of Bari, close to the border with Basilicata. , its population amounts to 70,595 inhabitants. The city is known for its particular quality of bread called Pane di Altamura, which is sold in numerous other Italian cities. The 130,000-year-old calcified Altamura Man was discovered in 1993 in the nearby limestone cave called ''grotta di Lamalunga''. History The area of modern Altamura was densely inhabited in the Bronze Age (La Croce settlement and necropolis). The region contains some fifty Tumulus, tumuli. Between the 6th and the 3rd century BC a massive line of megalithic walls were erected, traces of which are still visible in some areas of the city. Ancient city The city was inhabited until around the tenth century AD. Then it was reportedly looted by Saracens. There are no reliab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
