What to see · Grottole

Roofless since the eighteenth century: the largest church in Grottole lost its vaults.

It stands on the Motta, a hillock cut off from the town, watching the Basento and Bradano valleys.

A Pleistocene fossil whale, 27 metres long, surfaced on the shore of this lake.

The sanctuary stands on the Altojanni plateau, beside the ruins of a vanished medieval town.

A former Dominican friary is attached to Grottole's mother church; inside, 18th-century altars and choir.

A tower, a church and food pits: what is left of a medieval city that vanished by the 15th century.