Twenty-one metres of white cement and Carrara marble dust on Mount San Biagio: Maratea's Redeemer (1965, sculptor Bruno Innocenti) ranks among the world's tallest Christ statues — and, a surprising detail, it faces not the sea but the town and the basilica of San Biagio, an embrace turned toward its people.
The hairpin road climbs through pines; from the terrace, thirty kilometres of Lucanian coast open from Sapri to Praia.
Our tip: go up in late afternoon: golden light on the gulf of Policastro and, on the way down, an aperitivo in the old town as the lanes light up. The summer shuttle spares you the contested summit car park.
