Città Vecchia , including the San Cataldo Cathedral or Duomo , and the Church of San Agostino , stands exactly where it used to be in 967 .
The old town or Città Vecchia , including Piazza Fontana , the San Cataldo Cathedral or Duomo , the churches of San Domenico and San Agostino , the Madonna della Salute Sanctuary , and a number of old palazzi , is standing exactly as it did in 967 , when the Byzantines under Nicephorus Phocas rebuilt what the Saracens had razed to the ground in 927 AD.Taranto - 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Incorporating the Aragon Castle , it is situated on the artificial island between the Big and Little Seas and is reached by crossing the Ponte Girevole .
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