Travel Guide Genzano Di Lucania

One of the first stops on your way from Puglia. The small centre is dominated by the old castle, transformed into a stately home, which today houses the town hall. Below, the Cavallina fountain is a majestic neoclassical structure topped by a Roman statue of the goddess Ceres (1st century BC). Nearby, the castle of Monteserico, perched on the top of a hill, dominates a bare landscape of fields and meadows. It was here that the Byzantines were defeated by the Normans in 1041. The castle's barrel vaults and the prehistoric caves in its underground tunnels, where the first Basilian monks lived, are noteworthy.