Coming up from the Basentana you pass what was there before: the Paese di Pede, old Caucium, with its fortification pierced by inhabited caves and the ruins of the chiesa della Rocca. Between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries floods and landslides persuaded the people of Calciano to move higher up.
They took the Rocca's frescoes up with them, and they now hang in the mother church of San Giovanni Battista alongside a 1503 triptych by Bartolomeo da Pistoia and a fourteenth-century Byzantine copper crucifix. Calciano has been an independent comune only since 1913, and it belongs to the Città del Miele. There are 796 residents.
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Next up: Our Lady of the Serra and Saint Roch, patrons with Nicola Pisano's Annunziata, Tuesday 7 September
Nearest airport: Bari Palese, 78 km away
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📅 Every year, on 7 and 8 September, in honour of Saint Roch and the Madonna della Serra
Calciano celebrates Our Lady of the Serra and Saint Roch on 7 and 8 September, with a procession of the statue and votive «ceri» candles; the church of the Serra houses a 14th-century Annunziata attributed to the sculptor Nicola Pisano.
Durum wheat semolina, thick crust, shaped as a horn or a tall loaf: Pane di Matera has held Protected Geographical Indication status since 2008.
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