These beautiful lakes are located at the foot of the now extinct Vulture volcano. The beauty of this place has earned it the nickname of "Switzerland of Basilicata". The lakes are located within the Vulture Regional Nature Reserve.
The particularity of this municipality is that it is an ancient Albanian colony founded at the end of the 1400s by Albanians fleeing persecution by the Turks. For a long …
The melilitolite of Prete della Scimmia (1km north of Lago Piccolo of Monticchio) is characterized by phenocrysts of melilite (rich in Åkermanite) and titaniferous clinopyroxene immersed in a holocrystalline groundmass composed of melilite, clinopyroxene, magnetite, leucite, nepheline, apatite and garnet
The ruins of Carbonara. Inside the Borgo there is a large Archaeological Park, which still has the urban fabric intact, an eighteenth-century fountain with drinking troughs and wash houses, the …
Melfi, in Basilicata, boasts a rich medieval past having been the first Norman capital in southern Italy and residence of Frederick II, who promulgated the Constitutions of Melfi here. The …