The Sassi di Matera (Matera, Basilicata, Italy), a unique place all around the world, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the city is full of contrasts, a hymn to beauty, an inimitable tangle of caves-houses, sumptuous Baroque buildings, beautiful cave churches. Around the biblical landscapes of the Murgia...

Protected natural areas of Basilicata cover about 30% of the entire regional territory.

13.8% of the Apulian regional territory is covered by protected natural areas.

Geographycally speaking, the Park lies in the North-Western or “Alta Murgia”, in Puglia, straddling the former provinces of Bari and Barletta-Andria-Trani, an imposing, now highly karstified, limestone block which began to emerge 70 million years ago, since when it has undergone significant changes, yet it still preserves an aura...