Festivals in Basilicata

Every Ferragosto, the faithful from San Fele and the entire Vulture region climb to the Sanctuary of Santa Maria di Pierno, isolated amidst...

Every February, Pisticci celebrates the Pisticci Carnival, with a parade of floats, masked groups, and shows in Piazza Umberto I. Organized...

The Podolica Festival of Pescopagano is the first festival in Italy entirely dedicated to the Podolica cattle breed: smoked caciocavallo, DO...

The Matera stage of the first National Poetry Theatre Festival brings the show 'The Choir of Poetesses, Jesters, and Sibyls' to the city, fe...

The Polifonìe Music Festival transforms the village of Rivello into a widespread stage every summer: concerts in the historic center and nig...

Porklandia – Lucanica Festival is the great festival of Picerno dedicated to Lucanica, the typical cured meat flavored with wild fennel and...

The Potentino Carnival is the grand festival that enlivens Potenza for seventeen days with shows, concerts, exhibitions, and conferences spr...

The Potenza Folk Festival is the folk and popular music review that enlivens Piazza Mario Pagano during the San Gerardo celebrations. Three...

The Potenza Jazz Club Jazz Review is the concert season dedicated to jazz in the Lucanian capital. From October to April, the Stefano De Bon...

Twice a year, the statue of Our Lady of Monteforte travels between the Mother Church of Abriola and its ancient mountain sanctuary. At the e...

Prospettive Music Festival is the classical music review that every year brings to Matera, from March to June, concerts by great Italian and...

On the first Sunday of May, Castelmezzano, a village in the Lucanian Dolomites in the Province of Potenza, celebrates the Quagliata Festival...

"Queens and Warriors" is the solo exhibition by artist Karmil Cardone, held at the Civic Gallery of Palazzo Loffredo in Potenza. An exhibiti...

Radica Fest is the musical and cultural festival of Corleto Perticara, created to talk about roots, awakening, and returning to one's land....

The Rapone Fairy Tale Festival is one of the most anticipated summer events in Southern Italy: for a few days in August, the village of Rapo...

The Rapone Soppressata and Caciocavallo Festival is one of Basilicata's oldest gastronomic festivals, organized for over forty years by the...

The Rappasciona Fest celebrates in Viggianello, in the Pollino National Park, one of the oldest peasant soups in Basilicata: the rappasciona...

In mid-summer, around Ferragosto, Castelluccio Inferiore celebrates rascatiddi, the typical fresh pasta of the Pollino village in the Provin...