| GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION | the last town of Basilicata at the limits of Apulia |
| DISTANCES | 65 Km Alberobello, 66 Km Bari, 959 Km Bergamo, 723 Km Bologna, 999 Km Bolzano, 270 Km Caserta, 62 Km Castellana Grotte, 479 Km Catania, 84 Km Fasano, 707 Km Firenze, 940 Km Genova, 460 Km L’Aquila, 179 Km Lecce, 387 Km Messina, 931 Km Milano, 255 Km Napoli, 828 Km Padova, 617 Km Palermo, 816 Km Parma, 599 Km Perugia, 457 Km Roma, 389 Km Reggio Calabria, 608 Km Rimini, 202 Km Salerno, 77 Km Taranto, 1048 Km Torino, 99 Km Trani, 1004 Km Trieste, 975 Km Udine, 865 Km Venezia, 861 Km Verona |
| HOW TOU ARREIVE | By bus and by car from Bari (S.S. 96/99 via Altamura and S.S. n.271 via Santeramo) or by train (FAL); by car from Taranto (S.S. n.7 Appia); by car from Potenza (S.S. 407 Basentana e motorway); by car or by bus from Ferrandina; by bus or by car from Metaponto (S.S. 175) |
| ECONOMY | agricolture (durum wheat, bread and "pasta" production), handicraft shops, sitting - room trade, national and international tourism |
| LOCAL DISHES | cooked bread, "lagane" (a particular variety of hand-made pasta) with chickpeas, "ravioli"(hand-made pasta) with "ricotta"(cottage cheese made of skim milk), "u’calzn", cavatelli(mand-made pasta) with turnip tops, broad beans with cicory, country style lamb, mtton pot, coals lamb entrails |
| CAMPER EQUIPPED AREA | Parcheggio il Castello |
| CINEMA | Comunale (P.za V. Veneto – Tel. 0835 334116); Duni (Via Roma –Tel. 0835 331812); Kennedy (Via Cappuccini – Tel. 0835 310016). |
| MUSEUMS – PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS | "Domenico Ridola" National Archaeological Museum (Via Ridola,24); "A typically furnished old cave dwelling in Vico Solitario" (Sasso Caveoso); Living Museum of Peasant Heritage (Via San Giovanni Vecchio,60) Museum of Peasant Heritage (R.ne Casalnuovo,308); Museum of torture ( Via San Biagio,ang. Via San Rocco); Historical Museum "Gen. Ignazio Pisciotta" (Via d’Alessio,52) |
| PARKING AREA | Via Casalnuovo; Via Lucana ang. Via Vena; Via R. Scotellaro; Piazza C. Firrao |
| POPULAR FEAST | On the first sunday of May: Our Lady of the Annunciation in Picciano; on the second of July: Patron Saint's feast; On the twelth of September:The Redeemer's feast in Timmari; On the 18th of September: the second patron Saint's feast, St. Eustace in Matera |
