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Basilicate, wild and peaceful area, away from the tourist tours, is poor but attractive.
Area of little raised mountains, hills, it opens on two pieces of littoral Ionian and Tyrrhenian to the sand beaches where start to hatch the vacation villages.
Actually this area is the dreamed place for the excursions lovers, to discovered nature, wildlife and flora, walk in mountains... but also for impassioned of history.
Because, since the Sassi, troglodytic houses of the city of Matera arranged in caves since the Neolithic era, until today, the centuries have deposited on the Basilicate the print of Greek civilizations, Latin, Byzantine, Norman...
It is Metaponto, head office of the School of Pythagore starting from 510 before JC and this during 2 centuries; it is Venosa, fatherland of the Horace poet, Policoro where once rised the Greek colonies of Siris and Herakleia, etc... Another city, Potenza, large agricultural borough, close to the astonishing cathedral of Acerenza.
The 2 pillars of the local gastronomy are the pork-butchery and the pastes, often based on meat. But also sweet peppers, quasi daily dish, and costing regional desserts based on almond, of honey, or chocolate. Without forgetting the Aglianico, type of vine dating from the ancients Greeks, and who grows on the slopes of an extinct volcano. Go and taste it!
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