Pietragalla and the cultural tourism
The made lucano tinerario of culture, natural and landscaped history and beauties.
- the park of the Millstones splendid example of rupestre architecture and symbol of the civilization peasant.

- the Mount diggings Turret testimony of the Magna Greece.

- the beauty of the landscape offered from the forests.

The Park of the Millstones

Only and it originates them able shapes of rupestre architecture to suggest to scenes and fiabesche atmospheres.
It realizes to you in stone and decided on various quotas, they form a harmonic composition in a position to supplying an eye blow that provokes interest and curiosita' above all towards who it observes them for before the time.
These coves constructed around to 1300, to their inside are equipped of obtained bathtubs in the tufacea cliff, for the working and the fermentation of the grape (millstones).

The Millstones symbol of the civilization contadina:Tra art and talent

To the entrance of Pietragalla, in the east zone, a formed wine village from constructions of rupestre architecture is found: the MILLSTONES. They were constructed from the French of the Provenza, where similar constructions exist, during their occupation of the Puglia and the Abruzzi from 1528 to 1798, that is when it was proclamata the Partenopea Republic and the destruction of the French fleet from part of Nelson.

The name "Millstones" is second some note of French origin "Balmetti" from the from Liguria "Balma", that it meant incavatura; according to other drift from the Latin "Paumentum", the action of pigiare, striking, from which drift the term pavement.

The millstone generally is constituted from a small space of income with a bathtub for the tamping of the grape and in communication with a larger and deeper bow for the fermentation of the must, which it is approached by means of a steep ladder, in order spillare the wine and to transport it in the wine cellars, the aeration is assured from the uscio.

Some have the time to botte (that it was used also in order to construct the cloacas roman), on which has been put of the earth in order to block the pushes towards the high.

The structure of the Millstones is based on an important principle of statics, that the weights are that one of the uniform distribution of all the pushes (), than they are decomposed in horizontals and vertical, this last they are contrasted and annulled from

controspinte caused from the ground, while first, for being cancelled, they need of a sturdy and continuous building apparatus.
As many other archaic rural ones have not been embezzled to the principle of constructive economy, in fact they have been uses the material presents you in the surrounding atmosphere: stones of river for the external rising and sand for intonaco it.
The Millstones have been use you until years sixty, assuring the vinificazione for nearly the totality of the grape of Pietragalla.
Archaeological takeovers:
The Mount diggings Turret testimony of the Magna Greece.

Mount Turret (1074 m.s.l.m.) raggiungibile in long automobile feature SS 169 until in localita' Saint Nicholas di Pietragalla in order continuing along the Power - exited Melfi Saint George di Pietragalla (time of distance 10 minuteren).

Situated archaeological of Mount the Turret Km is distant from  the Pietragallese center approximately 15.
Turret of Pietragalla, with Greenhouse of I winnow, will be one fortified roccaforte for the control of the territory.

The takeover is already an aboriginal center of the V - IV century A.C. and is encircled from walls, constructed with enormous stone blocks, having one nearly 4 longitudinal development Km.
In the high part it is situated the acropoli, town-walls from walls to square work.
Important ritrovamenti in the lived one have brought to light remain of a tempio, some tombe and statuette feminine (the material are guarded near the provincial museum of Power).

A quadrilateral tower is found, remainder of omonimo the medioevale castle 

already abandoned in the XV secolo.Uscendo from the lived one, in the low part of the country, old rooms to shape of shelter and in part covered with earth cumulus are looked at numerous.
The Racioppi reports "to Country house" that is house from the wood walls, that is a Country house in the forest of the Sour one.
4 and 5 December 1456 marks the end of Casalaspro in how much a strong earthquake the oadsteads to the ground.

The beauties naturali:i forests well-being source

Pietragalla enjoys a hinterland interesting, rich of forests and ends on a panorama between most evocative than Basilicata.
Just for the strong presence of zones greens account of comfortable walks in the forests and excursions in the near valleys cannot not be held, the just ingredient in order to make of the preferred goal of who tries a little tranquillity let alone the acquaintance, the understanding and  the respect of the rules  and the laws that discipline the protection  of the nature.
The Large Forest of Pietragalla catches up in automobile covering 6 long Km the SS169,

one extends for 350 has approximately, governed to ceduo, its folta vegetation constituted from trees like the cerro, the roverella and the farnetto, from the underbrush (carpine, ginestre, ornello), it constitutes the green lung of the zone and therefore source of well-being.
Not to case from some time e' thought to value this area with a receptive structure for svago and the free time as a space dedicated to the shooting to the piattello or for the tasting of local typical plates fungi comprised the products of the forest (, game).