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Basilicata

Matera's Sassi, the Lucanian Dolomites and Maratea

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Photo: Sasso Barisano (Matera) 02 — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0

At a glance

What the app holds for this region, counted from its own data.

  • 10 towns
  • 29 places to see
  • 23 free to enter
  • 8 festivals
  • 2 places to see in UNESCO World Heritage sites
  • 4 small towns with a ready-made walk

Top highlights in Basilicata

In the app each one opens as a reel of photos, with directions and a way to its town.

  • Sassi di Matera

    Matera

    Matera's two old districts, Sasso Caveoso and Sasso Barisano, of dwellings and churches carved into the rock of the Murgia, with the Civita rising between them.

    Photo: Sasso Barisano (Matera) 01 — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0

  • Parco della Murgia Materana

    Matera

    A regional park created in 1990 on the Murgia of Matera and Montescaglioso to protect its rock-cut churches, prehistoric sites and cave landscape.

    Photo: Caves in Parco della Murgia Materana 02 — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0

  • Chiesa di Santa Maria di Idris

    Matera

    A rock church carved into the Monterrone, the limestone crag in the middle of the Sasso Caveoso, with a masonry front and a small bell gable.

    Photo: Santa Maria di Idris (Matera) 01 — Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0

  • Dolomiti lucane

    Pietrapertosa

    Jagged peaks of the Lucanian Apennines, 1,000 to 1,100 metres high on average, at the heart of the Gallipoli Cognato regional park around Pietrapertosa and Castelmezzano.

    Photo: Castelmezzano - Province of Potenza, Italy - 3 July 2010 — Jon Shave, CC BY 2.0

  • Basilica di San Biagio

    Maratea

    The church that keeps the relics of Maratea's patron saint, on the summit of Monte San Biagio facing the statue of the Redeemer; a minor basilica since 1940.

    Photo: Sanit Blaise Basilica — Luke18389 at Italian Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0

  • Complesso della Santissima Trinità

    Venosa

    An abbey of two churches: the old one, consecrated in 1059 and chosen as the Hauteville family's burial church, and the new one, whose building was never finished.

    Photo: SS. Trinità Venosa — D.N.R., Public domain

Small towns to discover

Small towns worth the detour, each on a published list and each with a short walk. In the app each has a ready-made walk, one stop at a time, past the town's checked places.

  • Maratea
  • Venosa
  • Castelmezzano
  • Miglionico

10 towns in the app

  • Potenza
  • Matera
  • Maratea
  • Venosa
  • Castelmezzano
  • Pietrapertosa
  • Policoro
  • Tursi
  • Miglionico
  • Avigliano