On 13 June, at the feast of Sant'Antonio, the animals go in the procession too: oxen, donkeys, mules and the household beasts. It ends on the church forecourt with the blessing and with the blessed bread handed out to everyone.
The town sits on top of a rock wall forty metres high, and at the foot of that wall opens a cave where in the years of brigandage the brigands hid: inside there is still the dripping, with stalactites a few centimetres long. The sandstone from here has a name of its own, pietra di Gorgoglione. There are 1,053 residents.
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📅 Every year, from 11 to 13 June
From 11 to 13 June Gorgoglione, a municipality of 1,053 inhabitants in the province of Matera, celebrates the Madonna del Pergamo and its patron Saint Anthony of Padua, with the procession of animals.
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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Outside Gorgoglione, but an easy day trip away.
