Basilicata, a land of many colors to discover 
Basilicata - The clear blue sea, breathtaking mountains, rolling hills, verdant plains, villages and art hanging on rocky ridges, volcanoes, rivers and lakes, pristine forests, and even a desert, in his more impenetrable heart. Is this the Basilicata, in the small area that perhaps few people know, if not to be passed through to reach other, more famous tourist destinations south of our treasure trove of incredible beauties against a backdrop of the charm of virgin lands had not been taken d 'assault by mass tourism and perhaps this represents the greatest wealth!
hospitality that has its stems from the ancient, honest, genuine peasant culture by which resists even a sort of spontaneous sacred host. But the Basilicata - that a beautiful photo book just published, "
Basilicata seen from the sky" created by the renowned photographer Guido Alberto Rossi, documenting in all its beauty - it is also gastronomy, with its intense flavors and authentic colors bright, with its blue skies and clear waters of the Ionian and Tyrrhenian that lap the shores, and the intense green of the forests that cover it. And yet boundless horizons and landscapes to get lost with the look and pamper yourself with a slow tourism, able to truly reconcile with themselves and nature.
It is no coincidence
Lucania (woodland, from Latin Lucus, woods, like the ancient Romans called it), the other name by which this region is known, was often chosen by leading filmmakers as a location for their film sets. This is because, although a small region, holds within it a universe of many microcosms between their sometimes very different than looking at them, unaware of where you are located, could easily be thinking about distant and exotic lands.
example? The Badlands Lucani, an amazing array of desert lands, canyons and peaks of clay that recall the arid landscapes of Cappadocia or Arizona. Here are films such as King David (1985) by Bruce Beresford, the wolf (1996), Gabriele Lavia, Scorched Earth (1999) Fabio Sawyer, to the more recent The Passion of the Christ (2004) by Mel Gibson. Parks and protected areas are varied. There therefore propose only some while for all other information you may refer to the site very well done 's
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The Pollino National Park
At the turn of Basilicata and Calabria is the largest among the Italian parks and its well 192mila acres covered with lush forests. It is the undisputed realm of rare and millennial Pine loricato (found only here and in parts of Serbia), a real paradise for hiking, horseback riding or mountain biking, rafting (on the river Lao), canoeing (in the Gorge Raganello), rock climbing. Here between June and September are celebrated also strange "marriages" where to get married are not human beings but trees that join the second fascinating ritual whose origins are lost in the mists of time.
majestic trees propitiatory rites to invoke the fertility of the land that in many ways reminiscent to those Celtic. Ceremonies so beautiful it takes your breath between nocturnal expeditions in the dense forests in search of the "spouses", killing, an ax, these giants of nature (A fir tree and a beech, which are then implanted in the ritual "marriage"), transport with oxen in their respective countries (Round Viggianello, Terranova del Pollino, Castelsaraceno). The Park is a beautiful natural scenery with beautiful mountains, lush forests, landscapes, ranging from Mediterranean to the beech woods to the high-altitude meadows with their beautiful flowers, and wildlife of the most varied and interesting in the south of Italy , among which the presence of wolves.
Regional Park of Gallipoli and the Dolomites Cognato Lucane
With more than 4 thousand hectares is one of the most beautiful natural parks and typical della Basilicata con la sua lussureggiante foresta di latifoglie, ceduo semplice, roverella e cerro e il suo ricchissimo sottobosco abitato da tassi, lupi, faine, donnole, lepri, istrici, oltre a cinciallegre, usignoli, picchi, falchi, gufi, barbagianni. Fra questo immenso "mare" verde si innalzano verso il cielo le Dolomiti Lucane, pinnacoli di arenaria risalenti a 15 milioni di anni fa, che per le loro forme bizzarre ricordano i più noti paesaggi dolomitici trentini. Proprio qui è possibile sperimentare un'emozione che per ora rimane unica in Italia (qualcosa di simile in Europa, infatti, anche se con dislivelli molto meno accentuati, esiste soltanto in Francia), il cosiddetto Volo dell'angelo in cui si ha letteralmente, unlike for example the bungee jumping, the sensation of flying.
A minute and thirty seconds to 120 km / h suspended 400 feet above the ground, slung on his stomach with a steel cable passing over rocks and deep ravines, but also impenetrable forests and villages (and Castelmezzano Pietrapertosa) set like gems among rocks and placed this among the most beautiful towns in Italy, once a hotbed of who among these hills to seek shelter or lookout points to check the surroundings, to monks from the Saracens up to the robbers during the robbery of Lucan.
And just nearby, you can relive the exploits of the bandits through the countryside and environmental Historical Park of Basilicata, also known as Of the Grange Park, named after the forest where it is hosted in the town of Brindisi di Montagna, twelve kilometers from the regional capital, Potenza, which is centered around the cinespettacolo "The story banned," the largest multi-media performance of Italian folk theater . An hour and a half between cinema and theater using the latest technology and special effects that simulate explosions, battles, fires, gives the viewer a sense of participation in the first scene, in a sort of live-action film that takes shape before his eyes.
I Calanchi Lucani
deep canyons, dry white dunes that crumble under the weight of the agents atmospheric, pinnacles and huge natural clay sculptures that the centuries have shaped giving it the strange and fanciful shapes. This is the scenario in which we come visit one of the most remote corners, and perhaps that is the most magical of Basilicata, Basilicata to the Badlands. They are located in the heart of south-eastern region, between the closed forests of the Apennine mountains and the fertile plains of the Ionian coast in the province of Matera , and are forms of erosion triggered by the combined action of the sun (warming the superficial part of the clay causes cracking through the numerous cracks) and infiltration of rain water that causes erosion of the clay. The Badlands offer unusual views for our Peninsula Here you can enjoy walking slow and winding streets with their suggestions have inspired poets, painters, directors and writers, including Charles Levi who spent between 1935 and '36 his period of confinement writing " Christ Stopped at Eboli .
Among other places of nature in the region do not miss the National Park of Val d'Agri , with its valley that opens a hole in that stretch of the Apennines, which is the real green lung of Basilicata, ' Vulture area , home of delicious wine Aglianico , with its extinct volcano Mount Vulture precisely, and picturesque Monticchio Lakes, the Regional Park of the Murgia Matera with its bleak moorland, the ' Oasi WWF Bosco Pantano a reserve with a dense forest vegetation that is pushed to the Ionian Sea, populated by sea turtles, otters, moorhens, herons, cormorants, beetles, hawks, kingfishers, the Reserve Abetina of Laurieton with its magnificent specimens of white fir with a circumference of up to 4 meters, the lake Pertusillo el ' Oasis WWF Pantano Pignola for birdwatchers. For those who love the sea, nestled between pristine vegetation and sheer cliffs that plunge in the blue water certainly Maratea, on the Tyrrhenian coast, or Metaponto , Policoro Scanzano and on the Ionian coast for those who prefers the wide sandy beaches.
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