History Basilicata Historical hints of Basilicata

History Basilicata: Historical hints

The Basilicata knew several rules, each of what left tracks of himself, above all under the architectural and artistic profile.
Populated anciently by the Inhabitants Of Lucania (in the inside) and Greeks along the coasts (taught Pythagoras, to Metaponto) was subsequently supplemented in the Roman empire with Lucania name.

Contested for long between Byzantine and longobard, passed to the Normans (Sec.XII); one owes the building of impressive castles (Melfi, Miglionico) then also used by the following rulers to him; Swabian, Angevin, Spanish.

Following historical events conform, after the '500, to those of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilie.

matera

The core original of the built-up area, the Stones, one disposes on the margin and the steep side some small heavy and within the short throats of the Stone Barisano and the Stone Caveoso. The artistic historical big value of the town is really represented by the Stones, with the dug houses in the tufa and irregularly superimposed along the two subsidences. In the neighbours, the archaeological and natural Park of the rocky Churches of the materano assembles 160 places of cult, for the more than medieval epoch, and remains in Neolithic, strewn villages along the walls of the small heavy materana.

potenza

Chief town of the Basilicata. She was seriously damaged by the earthquake of 1980. Belongs S. Michele Romanesque pretty church to the ancient core (sec. XII) of architectural greater relief is the church of S. Francesco (1274,) while the cathedral, he goes up again to the sec. XII, was gone back at the end of the '700. The archaeological Museum preserves prehistoric interesting finds and some age Greek Roman.

History Basilicata

Basilicata Historical hints of Basilicata (italy)