Basilicate, Italy · Europe
Marconia is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Bernalda, 21km from Craco.
Marconia is in Basilicate, Italy, with about 8,800 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Bernalda, about 5 km away.
Marconia is the main hamlet of the municipality of Pisticci in the Italian province of Matera. It is only 10 km from the Ionian coast of the same municipality and together with the peripheral urban agglomerations of Tinchi, Centro Agricolo, Casinello and the coastal area has approximately 13,000 inhabitants.
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is the newest and most populous town in the municipality of Pisticci and is located in a flat and central position in the Metapontino area.
Marconia was established during the Second World War as a fascist exile colony inhabited by political dissidents. After the dissolution of the colony, which occurred with the fall of fascism in Italy in 1943, some of the internees returned to their hometowns, others moved to Pisticci, but many decided to remain there.
Marconia is named for Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian 20th-century inventor credited with the invention of radio.
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Within an hour or so of Marconia: Craco (21 km), Sassi di Matera (34 km), Matera (34 km), Matera (No Time to Die opening) (34 km).
Marconia is in Basilicate, Italy, about 5 km from Bernalda.
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ACI roadside assistance: 803 116. ZTL (limited traffic zones) in city centres are camera-enforced.
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ancient ruins
Ghost town abandoned in 1963 after a landslide, its Norman tower and gutted palazzi still crowning a clay ridge above the Basento badlands. Visitable on guided hard-hat tours; a favourite film set from The Passion of the Christ to 007.
21 km · about 25 min drive
ancient ruins
Two ancient cave-dwelling districts carved into the ravine of Matera, inhabited since the Paleolithic and now a UNESCO site.
34 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
An ancient city in Basilicata carved into limestone gorges, with cave dwellings (Sassi) continuously inhabited for over 9,000 years.
34 km · about 40 min drive
film location
The cave city's Piazza San Pietro Caveoso and the road above the Gravina ravine host the Aston Martin DB5 gun-turret sequence that opens No Time to Die.
34 km · about 40 min drive
landmark
Village wedged into the jagged sandstone spires of the Dolomiti Lucane, linked to neighbouring Pietrapertosa by the Volo dell'Angelo zipline that flies 120 km/h across the gorge. The SP13 approach through the rock gateway is unforgettable.
57 km · about 65 min drive
April to October
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