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Cave houses in the Sassi of Matera

APULICA / Basilicata

Basilicata: stone, wine and landscapes to explore

Basilicata brings a character of its own to Apulica. Matera opens the story without exhausting it: Vulture, Melfi, Venosa and Senise offer different perspectives on heritage, landscape and food.

Cave houses in the Sassi of Matera. A contextual photograph of a place connected with this story. · Photo: Velvet / Wikimedia Commons — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized and converted to WebP.

Beyond a stop in Matera

Vulture-Melfese brings together historic towns and rural landscapes. Melfi and Venosa can provide a cultural thread, while Vulture opens the natural and culinary chapter.

Sources: Basilicata Turistica — Vulture Melfese Area

A thread through the journey

Matera and Vulture reveal different scales of Basilicata. Senise offers an introduction through food; Craco and Miglionico contrast landscape, memory and art. A journey can follow one thread or combine two, giving each place a clear reason to be included.

Places to explore

Walks through here

Basilian Way

Lauria (Basilicata); the Calabrian section begins at Rocca Imperiale → Reggio Calabria · Over 1,560 km according to the official site's home page; other pages of the same site say over 1,500 km, while italia.it gives an earlier figure of 1,390 km. · 83 numbered stages on the official site, including variants and "wild" stages; the general introduction on the same page still says 81, and italia.it gives 73.

Calabria, Basilicata

Cammino Materano

Several starting points, one per way: Bari, Alberobello, Brindisi, Albano di Lucania, Manduria → Matera, Cathedral of the Madonna della Bruna · No overall length: it is a network of ways. The official site gives Via Peuceta 168 km (170 in the text of the same page and on italia.it, 167 in the 2020 Pugliapromozione guide), Via Ellenica 170 km, Via Ellenica variant 137 km (but 118 km in the page text), Via Lucana 136 km, Via Jonica 215 km, Via Sveva 200 km (210 in the text) and Via Dauna 400 km; the Sveva and Dauna are not yet open. · It varies by way: Peuceta 7 stages, Ellenica 8, Ellenica variant 6, Lucana 7; the Via Jonica lists 5 stages from Manduria to Taranto plus a link stage to Statte. The Sveva (8 days) and Dauna (22 days) are not yet open.

Puglia, Basilicata, Molise

Sentiero Italia CAI (sections in Abruzzo, Molise, Puglia, Basilicata, Campania and Calabria)

Reggio Calabria, where the trail returns to the mainland (stage SI U01) → Campotosto in Abruzzo (stage SI P13), from where the national trail continues towards Amatrice and beyond · About 8,000 km for the whole national trail according to the official project page (the FAQ gives 7,900–8,000 km). The CAI does not state the combined length of the sections in these six regions; for Calabria alone italia.it gives 654 km. · For the whole trail the FAQ speaks of more than 500 stages, while the project page mentions almost 400 stage points. The stage-card list shows 120 cards with codes P to U, variants included (R04 is missing). For Calabria italia.it gives 34 stages, while the CAI list has 32 Calabrian cards (U01–U32).

Calabria, Basilicata, Campania, Puglia, Molise, Abruzzo

Places of faith