Potenza - Churches and places of worship Cattedrale di San Gerardo Originally from the 13th century and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Assumption, it was later named after St. Gerard, patron saint of Potenza. It was rebuilt in the 18th century by Magri, a student of Vanvitelli and thus transformed from a Romanesque basilica to three naves to a neoclassical building.
Matera - Churches and places of worship Santuario della Madonna della Palomba Built in 1580 and leaning against the ancient cave in which remains the fresco. The façade with rose window and bell tower and the interior with a single nave with frescoes.
Matera - Churches and places of worship Chiesa di Santi Pietro e Paolo al Sasso Caveoso Probably dating from the thirteenth century, It was rebuilt in the early eighteenth. The interior is in baroque style, full of statues, ornaments, paintings.
Montescaglioso - Churches and places of worship Abbazia di San Michele The monastery was founded in the first half of the 12th century. In 1484, after joining the Benedictine Congregation of St. Giustina from Padua, the abbey was enlarged and restored in Renaissance forms.The monks abandoned the abbey in 1784.
Matera - Churches and places of worship Cattedrale di S. Maria della Bruna The church, which was founded on two pre-existing crypts, destroyed during the looting, and on the foundations of the church of Saint-Eustache, was built in 1270. On the facade a beautiful rose window and the interior full of frescoes and statues.
Rionero in Vulture - Churches and places of worship Badia di San Michele The Abbey of St. Michael is located in the middle of a beautiful walk from where you can enjoy a magnificent panorama. The structure dates back to the 10th century, and was built by the Benedictines. In 1465, the building was abandoned, and then resumed by the Capuchins, who turned it into a library.
Ripacandida - Churches and places of worship Santuario di San Donato The Sanctuary of San Donato has a very ancient construction and is considered the symbol of the Municipality where it is located. Its construction has a very special structure decorated with frescoes made by one of Giotto's students. Since 18 December 2010, the church was named a national monument.
Maratea - Churches and places of worship Chiesetta della Madonna degli Ulivi The church of Our Lady of Olives or Snow is an ancient hermitage, of likely Byzantine origin, located behind the Basilica of San Biagio al Castello. Inside it preserves frescoes, depicting the Madonna with Child and Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
Maratea - Churches and places of worship Chiesa di S. Maria Maggiore The church of Santa Maria Maggiore is a religious building in the historical center of Maratea. The importance of the church in the panorama of the city, bring the population to just call it mother church.
Maratea - Churches and places of worship Chiesa dell'Immacolata The Church of the Immacolata is one of the three churches that overlook on the Borgo di Maratea, and is close to the square where there is the town hall.
Potenza - Churches and places of worship Il Tempietto di San Gerardo The temple dedicated to San Gerardo, patron saint of the city, was created by the potent artist Michele Basciolano. The work, according to the epigraph located to the right of the statue of the saint, was completed in 1865 and depicts a Neo-Renaissance bust of San Gerardo della Porta, bishop of the city of Potenza from 1111 to 1119
Churches and places of worship Convicinio di Sant'Antonio There are four rupestrian churches adjoining , whose entrances open onto a communal courtyard, dating from the twelfth and thirteenth century. Today in every room there is a cellar, dug out the ground floor when the churches were desecrated.