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Things to do in Pomarico Italy – what to see attractions and activities

Welcome to Pomarico Italy. If you’are planning to visit Pomarico for your next trip and you are looking for the best places to visit, here you’ll find tips and suggestions of most popular point of interest and activities not to be missed in Pomarico and surrounding. Travelers will appreciate this italian town with his rich historical and artistic heritage, local culture and environment. Discover the monuments, buildings, natural treasures and all the details that characterize Pomarico and its territory. Share and suggest a place you've visited.

What To See near Pomarico

Miglionico (7 Km)

Castello del Malconsiglio

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.

Montescaglioso (11 Km)

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 (17 Km)

Castello Tramontano

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.

Matera (17 Km)

Sasso Caveoso

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.

Matera (17 Km)

Museo Nazionale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna

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

Matera (17 Km)

Pinacoteca d'Errico

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 .

Bernalda (17 Km)

Acquazzurra Park

Matera (17 Km)

Museo Nazionale "Domenico Ridola"

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.

Matera (17 Km)

Sasso Barisano

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.

Matera (17 Km)

Ipogei

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.

Matera (17 Km)

MUSMA – Museo della Scultura Contemporanea

More than two hundred and fifty works donated by artists, collectors, critics and art galleries Italian and foreign companies.

Matera (17 Km)

Quartiere la Civita

The oldest part of the settlement, characterized by the presence of the cathedral, the palaces and the remains of several towers.

Matera (17 Km)

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.

Matera (17 Km)

Museo – Laboratorio della Civiltà Contadina

It features a reconstruction of typical rooms of the past and a variety of crafts represented through their characteristic tools.

Matera (17 Km)

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 (17 Km)

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.

Matera (17 Km)

Parco Scultura la Palomba

Located in an abandoned quarry, it houses the works of Antonio Paradiso, Carrino, Trotta, Spagnolo.

Matera (17 Km)

Strada panoramica dei Sassi di Matera

A picturesque walk that begins from the city centre. Along this route there are the most characteristic monuments of Matera, churches and museums.

Other attractions in Pomarico

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.

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MASSERIA SAN TEODORO NUOVO - >Marconia

MASSERIA SAN TEODORO NUOVO

Marconia (24 Km) - Contrada San Teodoro Nuovo

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Destinations nearby

Miglionico

Miglionico

It is 11,7 Km away - about 16 minutes

Montescaglioso

It is 16,7 Km away - about 24 minutes

Ferrandina

Ferrandina

It is 23 Km away - about 27 minutes

Matera

It is 28,8 Km away - about 32 minutes

Pisticci

It is 30,1 Km away - about 34 minutes

Bernalda

Bernalda

It is 40,3 Km away - about 38 minutes

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