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Altamura Bread (originally known as Pane di Altamura) is a bread of a specific type produced in a limited geographical area known as Murgia nord-occidentale (northwestern Murgia), in the Puglia region of Italy. The fame of Altamura Bread dates back to 37 BC, when the Latin poet Horace, in Book I of Satires, referred to the region's bread and described it as "the best bread in the world." Its history dates back to the traditional agro-pastoral society in which it was produced from the Middle Ages