Basilicata
Basilicata, also known as Lucania, is a region of Southern Italy. Basilicata has an abundance of religious, historical, and cultural attractions, fantastic seaside tourism opportunities, and great cultural opportunities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Potenza and Matera.
Potenza
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Potenza is a comune in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. Capital of the Province of Potenza and the Basilicata region, the city is the highest regional capital and one of the highest provincial capitals in Italy, overlooking the valley of the Basento river in the Apennine Mountains of Lucania, east of Salerno.
Matera
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Matera is the capital of the Matera province in the Basilicata region of Italy. It boasts the sassi: well-preserved rock-cut settlements that are a World Heritage site and one of Southern Italy's many important attractions.
Craco
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Craco is a town in the province of Matera, Italy. It was abandoned towards the end of the 20th century due to natural disasters. The abandonment has made Craco a tourist attraction and a popular filming location.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Policoro and Pietrapertosa.
Policoro
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Policoro is a town and comune in the province of Matera, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. With some 18,000 inhabitants, is bounded by the towns of Rotondella, Scanzano Jonico and Tursi.
Pietrapertosa
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Pietrapertosa is a scenic town nestled into the Lucano Dolomites in the Basilicata region overlooking the city of Castelmezzano.
Metaponto
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Metaponto is a small town of about 1,000 people in the province of Matera, Basilicata, Italy. Administratively it is a frazione of Bernalda.
Basilicata
- Type: State with 588,000 residents
- Description: region of Italy
- Also known as: “BAS”, “Basilicata region”, “Basilicate”, and “Lucania region”
- Historically known as: “Lucania”
- Neighbors: Apulia, Calabria, and Campania
- Categories: region of Italy and locality
- Location: Southern Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude of center
40.5006° or 40° 30′ 2″ northLongitude of center
16.082° or 16° 4′ 55″ eastPopulation
588,000Elevation
1,161 metres (3,809 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1781917314OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Basilicata” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Bazilikata”
- Amharic: “ባሲሊካታ”
- Arabic: “بازيليكاتا”
- Arabic: “بزلكاتة”
- Arabic: “بَزِلِكاتة”
- Aragonese: “Basilicata”
- Armenian: “Բազիլիկատա”
- Arpitan: “Baselicâ”
- Arpitan: “Basilicata”
- Asturian: “Basilicata”
- Azerbaijani: “Bazilikata”
- Balinese: “Basilicata”
- Basque: “Basilicata”
- Belarusian: “Базіліката”
- Belarusian: “Базыліката”
- Belarusian: “Луканія”
- Bosnian: “Basilicata”
- Breton: “Basilicata”
- Bulgarian: “Базиликата”
- Catalan: “Basilicata”
- Cebuano: “Basilicata”
- Central Bikol: “Basilicata”
- Chechen: “Базиликата”
- Chinese: “Basilicata”
- Chinese: “巴斯利卡塔”
- Chinese: “巴西利卡塔”
- Chinese: “巴西利卡塔大区”
- Chinese: “巴西利卡塔大區”
- Chinese: “盧卡尼亞”
- Chuvash: “Базиликата”
- Cornish: “Basilicata”
- Corsican: “Basilicata”
- Crimean Tatar: “Bazilikata”
- Croatian: “Basilicata”
- Czech: “Basilicata”
- Danish: “Basilicata”
- Dimli (individual language): “Bazilikata”
- Dutch: “Basilicata”
- Esperanto: “Basilikato”
- Esperanto: “Bazilikato”
- Estonian: “Basilicata”
- Finnish: “Basilicata”
- French: “Basilicate”
- Friulian: “Basilicade”
- Friulian: “Lucanie”
- Galician: “Basilicata”
- Georgian: “ბაზილიკატა”
- German: “Basilikata”
- German: “Lukanien”
- Greek: “Μπαζιλικάτα”
- Hakka Chinese: “Basilicata”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pâ-sṳ̂-li-khà-thap”
- Hebrew: “בזיליקטה”
- Hindi: “बाज़िलीकाता”
- Hungarian: “Basilicata”
- Icelandic: “Basilíkata”
- Ido: “Basilikata”
- Iloko: “Basilicata”
- Indonesian: “Basilicata”
- Interlingua: “Basilicata”
- Irish: “Basilicata”
- Italian: “Basilicata”
- Italian: “Lucania”
- Italian: “Regione Basilicata”
- Japanese: “バジリカータ州”
- Javanese: “Basilicata”
- Kazakh: “Базиликата”
- Korean: “바실리카타 주”
- Korean: “바실리카타”
- Korean: “바실리카타주”
- Kurdish: “Basilicata”
- Ladin: “Basilicata”
- Ladino: “Basilikata”
- Latin: “Basilicata”
- Latin: “Lucania”
- Latvian: “Bazilikata”
- Ligurian: “Basilicata”
- Limburgan: “Basilicata”
- Lithuanian: “Bazilikata”
- Lombard: “Basilicada”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Basilicata”
- Macedonian: “Базиликата”
- Malay: “Basilicata”
- Maltese: “Basilicata”
- Maltese: “Basilikata”
- Maltese: “Bażilikata”
- Marathi: “बाझिलिकाता”
- Mazanderani: “باسیلیکاتا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Basilicata”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Basilicata”
- Mingrelian: “ბაზილიკატა”
- Neapolitan: “Baselecata”
- Nepali: “बासिलिकाटा”
- Northern Frisian: “Basilikaata”
- Northern Sami: “Basilicata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Basilicata”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basilicata”
- Norwegian: “Basilicata”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Basilicata”
- Ossetian: “Базиликатæ”
- Pampanga: “Basilicata”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਜ਼ਿਲੀਕਾਤਾ”
- Persian: “باسیلیکاتا”
- Piemontese: “Basilicà”
- Polish: “Basilicata”
- Portuguese: “Basilicata”
- Pushto: “باسیلیکاتا”
- Romanian: “Basilicata”
- Russian: “Базиликата”
- Sardinian: “Basilicata”
- Scots: “Basilicata”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Basilicata”
- Serbian: “Базиликата”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Basilicata”
- Sicilian: “Basilicata”
- Sicilian: “Lucania”
- Slovak: “Basilicata”
- Slovenian: “Bazilikata”
- South Azerbaijani: “باسیلیکاتا”
- Spanish: “Basilicata”
- Spanish: “Región de Basilicata”
- Spanish: “Lucania” (historical)
- Swahili: “Basilicata”
- Swedish: “Basilicata”
- Swiss German: “Basilikata”
- Tagalog: “Basilicata”
- Tajik: “Базиликата”
- Tamil: “பசிளிகாதா”
- Tatar: “Базиликата”
- Thai: “แคว้นบาซีลีกาตา”
- Thai: “แคว้นบาซีลีคาตา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Basilikata”
- Turkish: “Basilicata Özerk Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Basilicata”
- Ukrainian: “Базиліката”
- Urdu: “بازیلیکاتا”
- Venetian: “Baxiłicata”
- Venetian: “Baziłicata”
- Vietnamese: “Basilicata”
- Vlaams: “Basilicata”
- Waray (Philippines): “Basilicata”
- Welsh: “Basilicata”
- Western Frisian: “Basilikata”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ بیسیلیکاٹا”
- Wu Chinese: “巴西利卡塔大区”
- Yue Chinese: “巴斯利卡塔”
- “Basilicata”
- “Basilicate”
- “Lucàgna”
- “ma lili Pasilikata”
- “ma Pasilikata”
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