A crushed Beetle at La Palomba Sculpture Park

La Palomba Sculpture Park

A few kilometres outside Matera there is an abandoned quarry with a permanently open, free for all sculpture park, exhibiting works of the sculptor Antonio Paradiso.

Don’t miss the cave churches near Matera

A lot of tourists (like me) don’t realise that the cave churches near Matera form part of Basilicata’s three-in -one UNESCO World Heritage package.

Lago di Pietra del Pertusillo Lakes of Lucania - Italian Notes

The Lakes of Lucania

Tricarico in Basilicata - Italian Notes

Tricarico right in the centre of Basilicata

Pietrapertosa

Pietrapertosa and the flight of the angel