OTS - Tourism of the passions in Basilicata, from herbs to the stars - Art and scenery in ancient hamlets, workshops, guided tours
2024. March 06. 09:30
Potenza, 6 March, 2024 (APA/OTS) - From astronomy to art and
scenery in ancient hamlets, from workshops to guided tours in parks
and gardens among wild herbs and flowers, fairy tales and magic:
Basilicata opens up to experiential tourism, allowing visitors to
live out and share their passions.
Off the usual tourist trail, the region offers visitors many
original opportunities to rediscover places of true anthropological
beauty, culture and tradition and recharge by immersing themselves
in nature, rediscovering the charm of traditions, sampling typical
dishes and practising outdoor sports.
Lucania, with its incredible biodiversity protected by two
national parks, three regional parks and several nature reserves,
is the ideal place to discover wild herbs, flowers and medicinal
plants during an excursion with experts in alimurgy, the science
that studies the use of edible wild plants, better known today as
'foraging'.
To find out more, visit the Conservatory of Ethnobotany and
Hortus Basiliano in Castelluccio Superiore, a garden containing
about 150 mostly native medicinal plants; the Park of Colours in
Castelgrande (Potenza) dedicated to the famous botanist Guglielmo
Gasparrini and also boasting a 'Butterfly House' containing live
butterflies in a tropical micro habitat. The Sanseverino Botanical
Garden in Grumento Nova and the Herb House in Pomarico for learning
about and recognising spontaneous herbs are also not to be missed.
With its very low light pollution, Basilicata is also the ideal
place for admiring the night sky in the countryside and mountains
or around small hilltop villages. Visitors can feel in direct
contact with the universe in several ways: at the Anzi Astronomical
Observatory, one of the most respected in Italy for its scientific
and astronomical activity, where it is possible to admire around 4.
500 sparkling stars; the Museum of Science and Space-Sparkme Space
Academy in Matera, a site dedicated to the spread of scientific
knowledge offering immersive visits in the world of science and
space; and the Castelgrande Space Debris Observatory, with two
domes and two telescopes at an altitude of 1,258 metres.
Another original and exciting way to discover the territory is
through fairy tale and magic. Here, the journey starts in Rapone,
the so-called 'village of fairy tales', and with a book, 'Lo Cunto
de Li Cunti', written in 1600 by the Neapolitan Giambattista Basile
who, inspired by the Lucania region, gathered and translated
numerous folk tales. Rapone Fairytale Festival is a community
project giving new life to the most beautiful fairy tales of all
time through an artistic-cultural route. There is also the five
fairy tales trail, the multimedia museum 'C.E.R.A. una volta' and
an adventure park with trails devoted to fairy tale characters.
The tour continues towards Albano di Lucania, the 'town of
Magic' that was already the object of research during Ernesto De
Martino's expeditions to Lucania in the 1950s, with the 'La Rocca
del Cappello' ritual route, and passes through Colobraro with its
enthralling 'Sogno di una notte a quel paese' initiative, to reach
Agromonte, the town of riddles, among the peaks of the Pollino
National Park, declared a Unesco natural heritage site in 2015.
Here it is possible to admire the loricate pine, described by many
as the 'living fossil' or the 'dinosaur of trees', the undisputed
protagonist of this magical and extraordinary scenario.
Then there are the workshops combining outdoor activities and
the discovery of new places, ancient traditions and tasty local
dishes: in Lavello, the 'Bloom essence of nature', to coincide with
the blossoming of the numerous lavender fields; in Grottole, to
learn the art of the master cheesemaker and make your own cheese;
and also ceramics and papier-mâché workshops and camera trapping
courses with Ceas staff in the Pollino National Park.
Visitors can also ride donkeys with farmers on the ancient
sheep trails or immerse themselves in forests with guides certified
by the Forest Therapy Institute in order to reap the psychological
and physiological benefits of trees.
For more information: basilicataturistica.it
Press contact:
Serafino Paternoster
Head, Press office APT Basilicata
3384299742
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