A land to discover. And all to live. It is with this spirit that my colleague Angela Milici of A Spasso in Basilicata and I led the “Esperienza Basilicata” tour from 25 to 29 September. For five days we took 15 bloggers from Calabria, Campania, Lazio, Abruzzo,...
Basilicata, the landascape of history that enhances cinema
"Cultural landscape". With this definition, used on that occasion for the first time, Matera was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on December 9, 1993 in Cartagena, Colombia: it was thus certified that the Sassi and the Murgia Park represent a unique territory,...
Dawn is alwyas new. And beauty never sets.
He had a short but intense life: 30 years of love for his land and civic passion. Rocco Scotellaro (simply Rocchino for everyone in his hometown Tricarico) is perhaps the most shining example of “lucanità” in modern times. Poet, mayor of his country, but above all a...
When you see Matera with the eyes of heart
At the first telephone contact it had seemed one of the many requests for availability that I receive daily. "Some friends who had you as a guide arecommended us to call you, we would like to have you as a guide in Matera for a full day. We are 3 friends from...
They talk about you…
Before tour guide was my full day job, I practiced journalism for years. They are two professions that have so much in common: in the first case we write, in the other we speak but the goal is the same, to communicate. And the fuel that feeds them is the same:...
Little tourists grow up…
I often give tours to families with small children, sometimes even just a few months old. In those cases my work becomes more complicated and more challenging to: it is not easy to keep the attention for several hours or at least keep the liveliness of the little...