Episcopia: Comune di Episcopia - Chiesa Madre di San Nicola di Bari - Chiesa di Sant'Antonio - Acqualisparti
Episcopia occupies a hillside position in the Sarmento River valley in Basilicata’s Province of Potenza. The compact settlement spreads across uneven ground amid the wooded ridges of the Lucanian Apennines, its roofs and lanes following the contours rather than a regular urban grid. Chiesa Madre di San Nicola di Bari is the town’s principal church, and Chiesa di Sant’Antonio is another local religious landmark. The Comune di Episcopia serves this small inland municipality, where clustered homes, forested slopes and the valley remain central to the town’s character. Its setting belongs to the wider Pollino area of southern Italy.
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Episcopia has served as a hill settlement in Basilicata since the Middle Ages. Rising above the Sarmento valley in the southern Apennines, it belongs to the inland territory of Potenza province, north of the Pollino massif. The town’s name recalls an ecclesiastical past, and its compact historic centre follows the close-knit pattern of many Lucanian communities built on elevated ground. Wooded slopes and cultivated fields define the countryside around this quiet corner of southern Italy. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of the Sarmento valley and Basilicata.
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Basilicata combines a rugged Apennine interior with the open Ionian coast in a way that reflects its position between southern Italy’s mountains and the Gulf of Taranto. The Basento River runs east from Potenza toward the Ionian Sea, while the sharp profiles of the Dolomiti Lucane give the central landscape a distinct character. In the northeast, Matera is renowned for the Sassi, historic cave-dwelling quarters carved into the rock above the Gravina; the site has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1993. Inland towns, wooded slopes and the agricultural plain around Metaponto reveal a region shaped by both highlands and Mediterranean shores. Continue with other webcams in the region to compare landscapes and settings around Basilicata.
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