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Extract from the Acerenza Travel Guides:
The venerable stronghold of
ACERENZA
, northeast of Potenza, is not so easy to reach by public transport, although it does have a station on the FAL line to Gravina, in Puglia, a few kilometres below the town itself, connected by a regular bus service to the top. It's worth the effort for the grand panorama and its famous
Cattedrale
(daily 9.30am-12.30pm & 4-7pm), from which it is thought the name of Basilicata derives (it was the bishop of this basilica who exercised jurisdiction over the territory around). Constructed in the eleventh century but rebuilt in its present Romanesque form in 1281, probably by French...
read the whole Acerenza Travel Guides...
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