Two kilometres from the town, among the olives, there is a grotto dedicated to the Madonna: a repentant brigand dug it out of the living rock. The rest of Cirigliano is all stone, pietra di Cirigliano, still quarried here, and it made the castle, the palazzi, the houses and the streets.
The castle has a tower with an oval base and beside it the chapel of the Addolorata, with a seventeenth-century Pietà inside a decorated wooden shrine. The Coppola bought it in 1595 from the Iannellis for 13,000 ducats; in 1750 it passed to the barons Formica, who own it still. There are 361 residents.
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📅 Every year, on 25 July
Cirigliano celebrates Saint James on 25 July; two kilometres from the town lies a grotto carved into the rock by a repentant bandit and dedicated to the Madonna, while the historic centre is dominated by the ancient feudal castle of the Formica barons.
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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