BASILICATA (Italy)

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Provinces: Potenza, Matera

This mountainous region has two coastlines, one in the center of the Gulf of Taranto in the Ionian Sea, and a tiny one on the Tyrrhenian Sea, with the famous sea resort of Maratea. The bare mountain landscapes slope down to the Ionian Sea.

A mainly mountainous region between Apulia and Calabria, heavily forested in the north around Monte Vulture, a large extinct volcano. Many rivers flow down from the southern Appennines into the Gulf of Taranto, irrigating the fertile coastal plain behind Metaponto the birthplace of Pythagoras. One of the most important towns of the Magna Graecia - don't miss the archaeological site with the Tavole Palatine temple.