Borghi Autentici
Borghi Autentici in Basilicata
5 towns
Basilicata holds 5 Borghi Autentici sites inside our catalogue. They are in the Matera and Potenza provinces.
The three most recognized in our catalogue are Accettura, Aliano, and Grottole. 2 more towns carry the mark alongside them.
The towns
Accettura
Province: Matera · 770 m
A 770-meter village in the Gallipoli Cognato park where, each Pentecost, a Turkey oak is married to a holly tree.
Aliano
Province: Matera · 555 m
The clay-hill village at 555 meters above the Agri valley where Carlo Levi served his 1935 exile and is buried in the cemetery.
Grottole
Province: Matera · 481 m
A hilltop borgo at 481 meters between the Bradano and Basento, where six hundred empty houses outnumber residents in the centro storico.
Rotonda
Province: Potenza · 626 m
The Pollino park's Lucanian gateway: a 3,141-resident borgo at 626m on the Basilicata/Calabria border, headquarters for the Parco Nazionale del Pollino, Italy's largest national park, with the Loricato pine forests immediately above town.
San Mauro Forte
Province: Matera · 540 m
A 540-meter Lucanian hill town built around a surviving Norman tower, where the Sagra dei Campanacci on 16 January wakes the village with cowbells.
From elsewhere in Italy
Five more towns
Aquileia
Province: Udine
A village of 3,124 on a Roman capital of 100,000, where the largest paleochristian mosaic floor in the West runs under a Romanesque basilica.
Petacciato
Province: Campobasso
A hilltop village at 225 meters on the Adriatic, with a Romanesque church in tuff and sandstone and a long sand beach below.
Cernobbio
Province: Como
The town where Villa d'Este has been a luxury hotel since 1873.
Nusco
Province: Avellino
The Balcony of Irpinia at 914 meters, a ridge town between the Ofanto and Calore valleys, hometown of Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita.
Monteverde
Province: Avellino
A 740-meter borgo on the Apulian border of Irpinia, closer to Foggia than to its own provincial capital.