Basilicata (Italy): our 13-day Basilicata summer road trip (with a short detour into Puglia & Calabria) - our detailed holiday guide
This itinerary explains our summer road trip to see the best of Basilicata with a short detour into Puglia and Calabria. Basilicata is one of the least visited regions in Italy, except the beach seaside resort of Maratea, the only town of this region on the Tyrrhenian sea, and Matera which has become quite an attraction since 2019 when it was nominated the European Capital of Culture. However, Basilica is still an unspoilt and undiscovered region and it has been quite hard to pick the best villages and attractions. Our Basilicata itinerary starts off in Melfi, in northern Basilicata and winds through southernwards, ending up in Maratea, on Basilicata west coast, and includes all the beach stops on the sandy Ionian coast and on the rocky Tyrrenyan coast that we visited. We decided to skip Matera as we had visited it many times. We decided to include also a couple of stops into Puglia, the amazing burrow area (le Gravine), as Puglia is bordering Basilicata and easy to reach. We incl