The monuments
All the monuments, city by city
The landmarks and masterpieces worth planning a day around.
CracoCraco Vecchia Historic SettlementAbandoned hill town, 1963 landslide exodus, film set ruin, clay badlands pedestalCraco Vecchia is the protected historic abandoned settlement of Craco, separate from the present municipality and newer settlement. Ministry records document a 2015 public-interest declaration tied to landscape value, soil instability and building vulnerability. The historic report first documents Cracum in 1060. This foundation avoids treating the settlement as a spectacle and excludes live route, access and safety claims.Plan the visit
PietrapertosaPietrapertosaBasilicata's highest village, Saracen quarter in the rock, pierced stone name, eagle's perch lanesThis retired record duplicated the municipality of Pietrapertosa. Municipal, historic-district and monument claims now belong to distinct, governed entities.
CastelmezzanoCastelmezzanoDolomiti Lucane amphitheater, rock-stair Norman remains, most beautiful borghi list, sunset stone spiresThis retired record duplicated the municipality of Castelmezzano. Geographic, historical and destination claims now belong to the canonical city identity or separately governed monuments and landscape entities.
MateraSassi di MateraCave city of nine millennia, Sasso Caveoso and Barisano, rock churches, shame to wonder storyThe Sassi are Matera’s historic urban districts, part of the wider World Heritage property The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera.
MelfiHidden GemMelfi CastleNorman-Swabian stronghold, Constitutions of Melfi 1231, ten towers, archaeological museum withinMelfi Castle is a historic monument that houses the distinct National Archaeological Museum Massimo Pallottino.
MateraMatera CathedralApulian Romanesque on the Civita, Last Judgment fresco, gilded Baroque interior, spur between the SassiThe Cathedral of the Madonna della Bruna and Sant’Eustachio is Matera’s cathedral church on the Civita, related to the wider World Heritage property.
MarateaChrist of Maratea22-meter marble-faced Christ, San Biagio summit, gulf of Policastro panorama, open-armed inland gazeChrist of Maratea, or Statua del Redentore, is a twentieth-century monument on Monte San Biagio. The national cultural catalogue records a 21-metre statue installed in 1965 and attributes it to Florentine sculptor Bruno Innocenti. It stands in front of the Basilica of San Biagio but is distinct from the sanctuary's historic fabric. This preliminary source foundation avoids unverified material, commission, conservation and visitor-access claims.
MateraParco della Murgia MateranaGravina canyon opposite the Sassi, 150 cave churches, Murgia Timone viewpoint, Neolithic villagesParco della Murgia Materana is a protected ravine-and-rock-cut landscape between Matera and Montescaglioso, distinct from the wider UNESCO property.
MateraCrypt of the Original SinSistine Chapel of cave churches, ninth-century frescoes, Flower Painter's hand, gravina cliff settingThe Crypt of the Original Sin is a distinct rock-cut church in the Matera landscape, with a catalogued medieval fresco cycle.
PietrapertosaVolo dell'AngeloZipline between two villages, 120 kph over the gorge, Castelmezzano-Pietrapertosa pair, flight in harnessA steel cable joins Pietrapertosa and Castelmezzano across their gorge, and riders cross it prone at up to 120 kilometers per hour. The Angel's Flight made two of Italy's loveliest villages a single, breath-stealing event.
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