The necropolis of San Magno, in the Corato area, is located in one of the most interesting areas of the Alta Murgia National Park. It is an archaeological area containing a series of tumulus tombs formed by a circular mound of stone materials with a predominantly rectangular and fairly large cyst in the center surrounded by blocks and more or less megalithic slabs of the late Bronze Age.
In the tombs were found bronze and iron objects and mainly fragmentary pottery and chrome and painted in purified clay in geometric style, among which stands out a greek-oriental type cup from number 12 tomb dating from the last quarter of the VII and the first quarter of the VI century BC: it is a product of importation or, in any case, of local imitation from Metaponto or from Siris, which is numerous in the Apulian vascular complexes.
The route then winds, a few hundred meters away, towards the ice-house church of San Magno, an extremely interesting construction for its function as the fulcrum of an extinct early medieval community traceable thanks to the ruins of a series of adjacent rural buildings the area of the same snowfield and in that area it is thought that at that time, there was a small temple that hosted the families of the village and the surrounding area during liturgical celebrations.
The typological specificity of the church represents a truly singular example of rural construction that combines the religious function as a storehouse for the collection and conservation of snow, absolutely indispensable during summer. Although widely reworked, it still maintains a perfectly legible recognition; today it is surrounded by spectacular centuries-old specimens of oaks and walnuts with the abundant presence in the territory of ferules and asphodels which represent the most characteristic botanical typology of the pseudosteppic environment typical of Alta Murgia to chromatically interrupt the stony landscape
