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.
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 .
Abbazia di San Michele
Montescaglioso
(29 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
(29 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
(28 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.
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.
Castello Tramontano
Matera
(28 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
(16 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.
Convicinio di Sant'Antonio
Matera
(29 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.