Basilicata
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This small region is a pearl between Campania to the west, Calabria to the south and Puglia to the east, in the extremity south of Italy, surrounded by the two seas, the mouth of five rivers, high mountains raise on its territory. Towns have rich of story, monuments, art and archeology, for example.. Metaponto bring us testimonies of the stone age and the wreckage of Greek ancient, "Stones" of Matera, the castles of Federico II at the benedettine abbeys. Places where the time has stopped, where the traditions are founded on a warm welcome of the people. Basilicata has one short coastline on the Tyrrhenian Sea and another of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea to the south-east. The region covers 9,992 km² and in 2001 had a population of about 600,000 inhabitants. The regional capital is Potenza. The region is divided into two provinces: Potenza and Matera.
