Lucania Film Festival: Cinema Basilicata, Matera, Craco, Pisticci

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How to get here
Here are some addresses that you can use for getting to the places of the Lucania Film Festival (Matera, Pisticci and Craco)

Aeroports:
www.gesac.it

Railways:
www.trenitalia.com

Local trains :
www.fal-srl.it

Liscio Bus:
www.autolineeliscio.it

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Basilicata
Basilicata, Lucania by now, is one of the smallest Italian regions, it borders on Campania at West, on Puglia at North-East, on Calabria at South. The Tyrrhenian sea dips it at South-West and the Ionian Sea at South-East. The territory is wholly mountainous and hilly apart for the Ionian side. Matera province has got 31 Communes and takes the South-East part of the region. It is lapped for around 35 km from the Ionian Sea, which the 5 main rivers flow in.

Matera
The main town of the province, Matera, is exceptional for its history, art, culture and popular wisdom. In this wonderful city it is possible to rebuild the life of the man himself, from the Stone Age to today. Testimonies are the entrenched villages of the murgico plateau and the rich archaeological material kept in the National Museum D. Ridola. It is the city of the Sassi (the stones) and of the ancient district of archaic charm.

Pisticci
Pisticci is defined like a “giant amphitheatre” surrounded by the sea, a green plain and wild canyons whose background are the mountains of the Apennino Lucano. The origin of the name is uncertain. Maybe it comes from the Greek word “Pistoison” which means “faithful place”. The finds of the VI century are numerous. They’re about 1 km from there.

Craco
Craco is placed on a hill which had been crumbling time by time and had been dragging down all the habitations. The name of the town comes from “Grachium” which means “ploughed field”.