City information

• Population (31 March 2018): 20,352
• Patron saint: St. Thomas
• Saint day: July 3 Madonna di Corsignano
• Website: comune.giovinazzo.ba.it

Giovinazzo (Barese: Scevenàzze) is a town, comune (municipality) and former bishopric within the Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia region, southeastern Italy. t was a small fortified centre of the Romans, who called it Natolium, maybe built on the ruins of the Peucete Netium which was destroyed during the Punic Wars.[3] After the Byzantine period, it became a countship (later a duchy). It became later a flourishing commercial centre, that had trading connections with Venice.