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Signature places
28 places we have written about
These are not certified businesses: they are the villages, the views, the trades and the traditions around the network.
Pieve
Abbazia di San Michele ai Laghi di Monticchio
Rionero in Vulture (PZ)
Benedictine abbey perched on the edge of Lago Grande at Monticchio, a place of pilgrimage and home to a rock-cut chapel, set in a landscape of rare stillness on the slopes of Monte Vulture.
Prodotto tipico
Aglianico del Vulture
Venosa (PZ)
Red wine of Hellenic origin grown on the slopes of the ancient Vulture volcano, considered the signature wine of northern Basilicata. The volcanic soil gives the grape variety unique characteristics that set it apart in the southern Italian wine landscape.
Borgo
Albano di Lucania
Albano di Lucania (PZ)
A village in Basilicata combining a well-preserved medieval historic fabric with a territory rich in traces of Apennine peasant civilisation.
Mestiere
Ancient trades of the Appennino Lucano Park
Marsico Nuovo (PZ)
The Parco Nazionale dell'Appennino Lucano Val d'Agri-Lagonegrese documents and promotes a repertoire of ancient local trades — from weaver to coppersmith, from miller to saddler — that tell the story of Lucanian rural civilisation.
Arte della balestra lucana di Vito Aquila
Basilicata
A rare craft surviving in Basilicata: the making of the traditional crossbow with hand-inlaid blade and buffalo-horn handle, tied to legends of brigandage and popular redemption.
Panorama
Calanchi di Aliano
Aliano (MT)
Lunar landscapes shaped by water erosion on clay, with sparse vegetation and sculptural forms that make this corner of Basilicata almost surreal.
