The best cycling routes around Santeramo In Colle

near Santeramo, you pass by Lamalunga Bike Park, one of the best sites for mtb thanks to technical trails and suggestive landscapes. Around and inside the bike park, numerous routes also suitable for gravel biking. the park hosts the ancient Rocchetta Gioia Railway, the site of the S. Angelo Caves and other sites of historical and landscape interest

From here, turning around, you can enjoy a beautiful view of Santeramo in Colle. The landscape is undulating and hilly, characteristic of the Murge. The town emerges as a clear, compact patch, dominated by church bell towers. The view extends across an agricultural landscape of alternating olive groves, vineyards, and cultivated fields, punctuated by dry stone walls, historic farmhouses, and stretches of woodland.

Matera is an Italian city in the Basilicata region, the capital of the province of the same name. It lies on the edge of the Murgia plateau. Its surroundings are home to the most important caveman settlements in the Mediterranean region. Since 1993, the "Sassi di Matera" (Stones of Matera), the oldest part of the city, have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Metera with its Sassi and rock churches is impressive.

From the distance, you can clearly see the church tower of the Chiesa del Santissimo Crocificco (built 1672), as the church stands on the highest point of the town.

The church stands on the highest point of the town. The first evidence of the existence of a chapel dedicated to San Rocco dates back to before 1548. In 1672 , in the same area, a convent for minor friars and the church were built in the neoclassical Style with the donation by the Marquis Caracciolo . On May 1, 1931, the parish of the Santissimo Crocifisso was erected by decree of the Archbishop of Bari and Canosa Augusto Curi . On February 25, 2014, Archbishop Giovanni Ricchiuti consecrated the new altar of this church following the restoration desired and carried out thanks to the commitment of the current parish priest Mirko Korenkiewicz.

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Inserted in the complex agro-pastoral rock village of Tre Ponti, the church was erroneously known until recently, with the name of San Pietro in Principibus. The plan is square with four central pillars and three apses. The façade has collapsed but you can admire the accurate workmanship of the arches, apses and pillars. In the rear room, excavated after the church was abandoned, there are graffiti depicting various figures including doves, quadrupeds and a soldier. To the left of the church, a stone enclosure protects an ancient rock apiary mentioned in two documents from 1536 and 1537 in which the area in question is mentioned: “un apiculare situ in gravina Sancti Elia, iuxta loco dicti Iacobi, et iuxta Ecclesiam di S.Elia ab alio latere” (apiary located in the ravine of Sant’Elia, near the cave of said Iacobo, and near the church of Sant’Elia on the other side). The church of Sant’Elia referred to is in fact located in the caves opposite, beyond the uphill road. Beyond the arched entrance to the church are two arcosolium tombs and various graffito crosses are engraved on the walls. The environment has been extensively remodeled, having inside it a manger and a ceiling drain. Discover our Basilicata by bike on www.viaggiatorelento.com