Basilicata

Basilicata, the instep of the boot, is an off the tourist track region in southern Italy. A mountainous area with a jagged, rocky coastline on the Tyrrhenian coast and another on the Ionian Sea. Basilicata, like the neighboring Calabria and Puglia regions, has been home to many cultures; you’ll see evidence of Greek colonization at Metaponto and Policoro, Roman towns, Norman castles, and cave dwellings that have been used since prehistoric times.