# Ruvo di Puglia > Italian comune **Wikidata**: [Q51848](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51848) **Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruvo_di_Puglia) **Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/ruvo-di-puglia ## Summary Ruvo di Puglia is an Italian comune (municipality) located in the Metropolitan City of Bari and the Province of Bari in southern Italy. It is an administrative town with historic monuments such as the Ruvo Cathedral and the Peucetian Tomb of the Dancers, and is represented online by the municipal website https://www.comune.ruvodipuglia.ba.it/. ## Key Facts - Ruvo di Puglia is an Italian comune (municipal division of Italy). - Country: Italy (southern Europe). - Administrative province: Province of Bari (a province in Italy). - Metropolitan authority: Metropolitan City of Bari (inception: 2015-01-01). - Official municipal website: https://www.comune.ruvodipuglia.ba.it/. - Coordinates: latitude 41.117288888889, longitude 16.483725. - Populations (structured properties list): 25,457.0; 25,328.0; 24,347.0. - Wikidata description: "Italian comune". - Wikipedia article title: "Ruvo di Puglia". - Wikidata sitelink count for Ruvo di Puglia: 56. - Notable local monument: Ruvo Cathedral (inception recorded as 1201-01-17; sitelink_count: 7). - Notable archaeological site: Tomb of the Dancers, a Peucetian tomb located in Ruvo di Puglia (country: Q38; sitelink_count: 6). - Related local settlement (listed relation): Calendano — human settlement in Italy (country: Q38; sitelink_count: 6). - Classification entry (related entity): comune of Italy (municipal divisions; country: Q38, ; sitelink_count: 60). ## FAQs Q: Where is Ruvo di Puglia located? A: Ruvo di Puglia is located in southern Italy within the administrative boundaries of the Province of Bari and the Metropolitan City of Bari. Q: What is the administrative status of Ruvo di Puglia? A: It is a comune, the basic municipal division in Italy, and is part of the Metropolitan City of Bari (which began operation on 2015-01-01). Q: What are the geographic coordinates of Ruvo di Puglia? A: The town’s coordinates are latitude 41.117288888889 and longitude 16.483725. Q: What is the population of Ruvo di Puglia? A: Structured properties list three population figures: 25,457.0; 25,328.0; and 24,347.0 (the source provides these values without explicit year labels). Q: What historic or cultural sites are in Ruvo di Puglia? A: Notable sites include the Ruvo Cathedral (inception dated 1201-01-17 in the structured data) and the Tomb of the Dancers, a Peucetian tomb located in the comune. Q: Where can I find official information online? A: The municipal website is https://www.comune.ruvodipuglia.ba.it/. Q: How is Ruvo di Puglia represented in linked-data resources? A: Its Wikidata description is "Italian comune", its Wikipedia title is "Ruvo di Puglia", and the item has 56 sitelinks in the provided structured data. ## Why It Matters Ruvo di Puglia matters as a functioning administrative municipality within one of Italy’s key territorial subdivisions — the Province of Bari and the Metropolitan City of Bari. Its local heritage combines medieval ecclesiastical architecture and pre-Roman archaeology: the Ruvo Cathedral (documented with an inception date in 1201 in the structured data) exemplifies long-standing religious and architectural presence, while the Tomb of the Dancers preserves ancient Peucetian funerary art, making the town a locus for both historical study and cultural tourism. As an identifiable Wikidata/Wikipedia entity with a municipal website and multiple cataloged sitelinks, Ruvo di Puglia also serves as a discrete digital node connecting local administration, cultural heritage, and broader regional governance within Italy. ## Notable For - Being an Italian comune located in the Province of Bari and the Metropolitan City of Bari. - Hosting the Ruvo Cathedral, recorded in the structured properties with inception date 1201-01-17. - Containing the Tomb of the Dancers, identified as a Peucetian tomb and an archaeological point of interest. - Maintaining an official municipal website at https://www.comune.ruvodipuglia.ba.it/. - Having explicit linked-data presence: a Wikidata description "Italian comune", Wikipedia title "Ruvo di Puglia", and a sitelink count of 56. - Geolocated at latitude 41.117288888889 and longitude 16.483725, enabling precise mapping and GIS integration. - Documented population figures in the structured properties: 25,457.0; 25,328.0; and 24,347.0. ## Body ### Overview and Classification - Ruvo di Puglia is classified as a comune, the basic municipal division in Italy. The broader classification entry for such entities is "comune of Italy", a municipal division with sitelink_count 60 in the referenced structured data. - The comune is situated within the boundaries of Italy, the country noted in the provided material as a nation in southern Europe. ### Administrative Location - Province: Ruvo di Puglia lies in the Province of Bari, which is identified in the source as a province in Italy (country: Q38; sitelink_count: 69). - Metropolitan authority: The comune is also part of the Metropolitan City of Bari, an Italian metropolitan city whose inception is given as 2015-01-01. The Metropolitan City functions as a second-level administrative division in Italy. ### Geographic Coordinates and Mapping - Exact coordinates for Ruvo di Puglia are latitude 41.117288888889 and longitude 16.483725. - The structured dataset lists a sitelink_count of 56 for Ruvo di Puglia and the Wikipedia article title as "Ruvo di Puglia", which facilitates cross-referencing in mapping and knowledge-graph systems. ### Population and Demographics (structured values) - The structured properties record three population numbers: 25,457.0; 25,328.0; and 24,347.0. The source provides these numeric values without explicit year annotations; they represent the documented population figures associated with the entity in the provided data. ### Cultural Heritage and Monuments - Ruvo Cathedral: The cathedral of Ruvo di Puglia is listed with an inception date of 1201-01-17 in the structured properties. The cathedral is a primary built monument of the town and has a sitelink_count of 7 in the provided material. - Tomb of the Dancers: This archaeological feature is identified as a Peucetian tomb located in Ruvo di Puglia. The entry in the structured data notes it explicitly as "Tomb of the Dancers — Peucetian tomb in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy" and associates it with the country code Q38; sitelink_count is 6. - These two sites mark Ruvo di Puglia as a locality with both medieval ecclesiastical architecture and pre-Roman archaeological importance. ### Related Localities and Connections - Calendano is listed among related entities as a "human settlement in Italy" (country: Q38; sitelink_count: 6). It appears in the provided relationships for Ruvo di Puglia; the source treats it as a related locality without further qualifiers. ### Identifiers, Digital Presence, and Structured Data - Municipal website: https://www.comune.ruvodipuglia.ba.it/. - Wikidata/Wikipedia: The entity’s Wikipedia title is "Ruvo di Puglia" and its Wikidata description is "Italian comune". - Sitelink count: 56 (as provided in the structured properties). - These identifiers support automated linking, citation, and data integration across knowledge bases. ### Relations to Higher-Level Entities - Country-level relation: Ruvo di Puglia is within Italy. The larger contextual information about Italy appears in the source, including Italy’s status as a sovereign state in Southern Europe and multiple national-level metadata entries; Ruvo di Puglia is an administrative locality inside that national context. - Provincial and metropolitan relations: The comune is subordinated administratively to the Province of Bari and the Metropolitan City of Bari. The Metropolitan City of Bari’s inception date is recorded as 2015-01-01 in the provided facts. ### References in the Source Dataset - The dataset includes related items and counts for linked entities: Province of Bari (sitelink_count: 69), Metropolitan City of Bari (sitelink_count: 40), Ruvo Cathedral (sitelink_count: 7), Tomb of the Dancers (sitelink_count: 6), and Calendano (sitelink_count: 6). These entries confirm the presence and connectivity of Ruvo di Puglia in the referenced knowledge graph. ### Practical Access Points - For official municipal information and services, the authoritative URL is the town’s official site: https://www.comune.ruvodipuglia.ba.it/. - For machine-readable and encyclopedic references, consult the Wikipedia article titled "Ruvo di Puglia" and the corresponding Wikidata item described as "Italian comune" (item with sitelink_count 56 in the provided data). (End of entry.) ## References 1. Virtual International Authority File 2. BnF authorities 3. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013 4. Czech National Authority Database 5. MusicBrainz 6. Italian National Institute of Statistics 7. [Popolazione Residente al 1° Gennaio 2018. Italian National Institute of Statistics](http://demo.istat.it/pop2018/index3.html) 8. [Source](https://demo.istat.it/?l=it) 9. Flickr Shapefiles Public Dataset 2.0 10. 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