Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Metaponto
Bernalda
The National Archaeological Museum of Metaponto exposes to the public objects that date from the prehistoric age to the Bronze Age. Inside there are funeral items, vases and ceramics. The Museum is open to the public and guided tours are also organized.
Metaponto - Tempio Greco
Bernalda
The Temple of Metaponto dates back to the 6th century BC. It was built by the Greeks as a sign of adoration of the Goddess Hera. Today, only the side columns remain along with many other buildings in the archaeological area. The finds found are kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Metaponto.
Santuario della Madonna della Palomba
Matera
(29 Km)
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.
Quartiere la Civita
Matera
(29 Km)
The oldest part of the settlement, characterized by the presence of the cathedral, the palaces and the remains of several towers.
Chiesa di Santi Pietro e Paolo al Sasso Caveoso
Matera
(29 Km)
Probably dating from the thirteenth century, It was rebuilt in the early eighteenth. The interior is in baroque style, full of statues, ornaments, paintings.
Museo – Laboratorio della Civiltà Contadina
Matera
(29 Km)
It features a reconstruction of typical rooms of the past and a variety of crafts represented through their characteristic tools.
MUSMA – Museo della Scultura Contemporanea
Matera
(29 Km)
More than two hundred and fifty works donated by artists, collectors, critics and art galleries Italian and foreign companies.
Parco Scultura la Palomba
Matera
(29 Km)
Located in an abandoned quarry, it houses the works of Antonio Paradiso, Carrino, Trotta, Spagnolo.
Cattedrale di S. Maria della Bruna
Matera
(29 Km)
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.
Gravina di Ginosa
Ginosa
(19 Km)
Gravina di Ginosa is a kenyon whose formation was determined by geographical, geological and climatic conditions.The anthropic attendance has been given it from at least 50,000 years ago.The site returned a tool industry dating back to the Middle Paleolithic, in addition to the numerous wildlife remains.
Piazza dell' Orologio
Ginosa
(19 Km)
It overlooks the Norman Castle and, together, give the center of the city of Ginosa an aspect that is very reminiscent of that of the most classic Hellenic villages, a symptom of the influence that Greece has had in the history of the city.
Chiesa Matrice
Ginosa
(20 Km)
Built in the mid-fifteenth century and dedicated to San Martino da Tours, one of the most famous saints beyond the Alps.
Abbazia di San Michele
Montescaglioso
(16 Km)
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.
Sasso Caveoso
Matera
(28 Km)
Today, the Sasso Caveoso District is characterized by an ancient appearance. This part of the city is mainly composed of houses dug into the rock, almost completely intact. The great homonymous square, where the recently renovated church of San Pietro Caveoso is also located, allows you to admire the panorama of the Gravina and the array of houses and caves, perched on each other.
Sasso Barisano
Matera
(29 Km)
The Rione Sasso Barisano, is almost completely renovated and houses numerous restaurant and hotel facilities as well as various tourist attractions such as the reconstruction of the miniature stones and the Museum of Peasant Civilization.
Ipogei
Matera
(29 Km)
Located under the main square of the city and brought to light a few years ago, a number of underground rooms containing also an old tank, called the long Palombaro, and a tower making part of the walls near the Castello Tramontano.
Museo Nazionale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna
Matera
(29 Km)
One section is dedicated to paintings and objects from the churches in the area. The second section sets out the paintings in the collection d'Errico. The third section has documents and works relating to the life and literary activity of Carlo Levi
Pinacoteca d'Errico
Matera
(29 Km)
The collection consists of about six thousand books, five hundred prints and three hundred paintings, especially works of Neapolitan artists and some of the seventeenth-century .
Torre Masseria Girifalco
Ginosa
(10 Km)
The Masseria Girifalco Tower is part of a set of agricultural buildings in the area. This type of building also had the function of a fortified passenger compartment. Specifically, the farm in question has always been used with the aim of controlling the commercial routes that united the Metapontino, with the areas of Materano. That's why the presence of the tower.
Castello di Ginosa
Ginosa
(20 Km)
Torre Mattoni
Ginosa
(15 Km)
Torre Brick was built in the 16th century with the function of defending the Ionian coasts and raids of the Saracens. It is located east of the Natural Oasis of Lake Salinella in the hamlet of Marina di Ginosa.
Castello Tramontano
Matera
(29 Km)
The structure, built in 1501 by Count Giancarlo Tramontano, feudal lord of Matera, is located on a hill, nicknamed Lapillo hill. The castle has an Aragonese style, with a central master and two round side towers, scalloped and equipped with louvers. Since 2008 it underwent a renovation, then finished in 2011.
Castello del Malconsiglio
Miglionico
(24 Km)
The Malconsiglio Castle was built between the 8th and 9th centuries. The structure has seven towers and is shaped like a parallelogram. In 1485, the Conspiracy of the Barons remained in the rooms of the castle. Over the years the castle had some owners. The most particular part is the Hall of the Star also known as the Hall of Spirits where there are niches carved in the walls and support the treasures of the inhabitants.
Castello di Isabella Morra
Valsinni
(35 Km)
The Castle of Valsinni took this name in memory of the great poet Isabella Morra, who lived all the years of her life in the castle. She was killed when she was only 25 years old, by her brothers because she was in love with Baron Diego Sandoval de Castro. Since 1921, the building moved to the Rinaldi family and today it is in excellent conditions of preservation.
Palazzo Baronale
Scanzano Jonico
(18 Km)
This Palace is also known as Palazzaccio or Castello di Scanzano. It has a linear and straight structure that develops above all for a long time. It is located in a beautiful square, very large, not surrounded by other buildings. The colors that predominate in this construction are the warm ones.
Torre della Scanzano Jonico
Scanzano Jonico
(18 Km)
The Torre della Scanzana was built in the 16th century by the Spanish viceroy for reasons of defense. The building is also known as Torre del Faro because for a period of time it was used as a lighthouse for fishermen.
Museo Didattico Archeologico
Laterza
(26 Km)
The Archaeological Didactic Museum is located within the structure called “Citadel of Culture”. The exhibition includes ceramic objects and finds dating from the 7th to the 19th century coming from the territory of Laterza and its borders.
Museo Nazionale "Domenico Ridola"
Matera
(29 Km)
It was born in 1911 thanks to a donation from Senator Domenico Ridola. The National Archaeological Museum Of Ridola in Matera, which is also the oldest museum in Basilicata, takes us back into the past of the ancient habits of the world of our ancestors. Through the traces of the finds found in the ancient Neolithic villages of Murgia, there are evidence of the development of agriculture in the 6th millennium BC An adventure in the past not to be missed.
Convicinio di Sant'Antonio
Matera
(30 Km)
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.
Madre Terra
Laterza
(26 Km)
Museo della Val d'Agri
Sant'Arcangelo
(43 Km)