basilicata

The owner in the distribution room.

Bottles of extra virgin olive oil from local olives.

Antico Frantoio De Perna in Campomaggiore near Potenza.

Maratea is a seaside marvel - a beautiful pastel-painted hill town with a marina village below at the water's edge. It has all the charm of the Amalfi Coast towns but is widely unknown, much less crowded and less expensive. The mountains fall right into the sea and coves of black sand beaches...

The main piazza.

The port.

The port.

The church.

The black beach.

Cradled in the rocks among the jutting peaks of the Dolomiti Lucane, Castelmezzano leaves you breathless. The first glimpse of this stone town charms and beckons. At night it's downright alluring with a hazy glow and floodlit rocks; it looks like a life-size nativity scene. Despite its small...

Connected to the Pietrapertosa by a zip line.

You can climb the rocks.

View from the rocks.

Walking up to the rocks.

Old communal bread oven.

Signs to ruins and walking trails.

Walk across town to the rocks.

Walk the narrow lanes through the town.

Piazza in front of the church.