Coastal towns
Coastal towns in Basilicata
4 towns
Towns on the sea. A cliff town high above the water counts here rather than under mountains, because the sea is why you would go.
The towns
Nova Siri
Province: Matera · 350 m
A 350-meter Ionian hill town with a Blue Flag beach nine kilometers below, near the site of the ancient Greek colony of Siris.
Maratea
Province: Potenza · 300 m
Basilicata's only commune on the Tyrrhenian, thirty-two kilometers of rocky coast overlooked by a stone-clad Christ finished in 1965 and turned toward the mountain.
Bernalda
Province: Matera · 127 m
A 127-meter hill town between the Bradano and Basento, Francis Ford Coppola's ancestral home, holding the Magna Graecia columns of the Tavole Palatine.
Policoro
Province: Matera · 25 m
An Ionian-coast town built on the ruins of the Greek polis of Heraclea, with a national museum devoted to the city's finds and a nature reserve running the country's documented sea turtle nesting program.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Calascio
Province: L'Aquila
A village of 122 people under the highest castle in the Apennines, cast as the monk's refuge in Ladyhawke.
Camerino
Province: Macerata
A university city at 661 meters on the ridge between the Chienti and Potenza, rebuilding after 2016.
Bagnoregio
Province: Viterbo
The Etruscan-founded hill town in Tuscia whose frazione Civita di Bagnoregio sits on an eroding tuff plateau, reachable only by footbridge.
Sortino
Province: Siracusa
The eastern gateway to UNESCO Pantalica at 438 meters in the Iblei, Sicily's city of honey and home of the stuffed Sortino pizzolo.
Lugnano in Teverina
Province: Terni
A ridge town at 441 meters above the lower Tiber valley, with a 1230 Romanesque collegiata and a late-Roman infant cemetery on the hill below.