Two days/one night
FIRST DAY
Arrival in Grottole, rural center rising on a promontory between the rivers Bradano and Basento. Its name evokes the "grotticelle", places still visible along the slopes of the town and used by craftsmen to shape vases and jugs from clay. A walk through the narrow paved streets where you will find stairs, alleys, arches and small uphill roads, while on the ancient one-story houses called "jrutt" stand the striking remains of the majestic church dedicated to Saints Luke and Julian, remained unfinished and called "Diruta".
Visit to a beekeeping laboratory, fruit of a passion handed down through the generations. Visit the hives, and depending on the time of year, you will carry out an activity in contact with the bees themselves, discovering the world of the hive with all the roles that the different bees play within it. 
In the laboratory there will be a demonstration of how to extract and jar the precious honey with the production and refining phase.
Lunch break
In the afternoon, visit to Irsina, one of the oldest towns in Basilicata, which stands on top of a rocky hill and dominates the valleys of Bradano and Basentello from which peeps out the ancient village, a network of civil and religious buildings that can be reached through narrow streets and alleys, now on the plain, now uphill, and following the walls that lead to the ancient gates.
Numerous churches and historic buildings built between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries enrich the historic center, all marked by coats of arms and epigraphs. One of the most important monuments in Basilicata is the majestic cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta (13th century) in Irsina, a real "museum of the sacred" both for its architectural features and for the works that adorn its interior, mostly of Renaissance art. Among all the works, the statue in Nanto stone depicting Santa Eufemia, attributed to the Renaissance artist Andrea Mantegna, stands out.
Transfer to Matera, dinner and overnight stay.
SECOND DAY
Arrival in Matera and day dedicated to the visit of the city, appreciated and visited for its famous Rioni Sassi, also offers many other pearls of beauty and culture such as the Cathedral of the thirteenth century, in Apulian Romanesque style, which stands imposingly on the hill of Civita, the first human settlement of the city, dating back to medieval times characterized by walls and fortifications. Very interesting also the other Romanesque churches in the historical center, San Giovanni Battista and San Domenico. Along the seventeenth-century ridge of the "Piano" you can admire the civil and religious buildings of the Baroque period including the churches of San Francesco d'Assisi, Purgatory and Santa Chiara, until you reach Palazzo Lanfranchi, Museum of Medieval and Modern Art of Basilicata. 
Lunch break
The afternoon will be devoted entirely to the Rioni Sassi, developed around the Civita, constitute an entire city carved into the calcarenitic rock, locally called "tuff", an articulated housing system, clinging along the slopes of a deep valley with unique and surprising natural features: the Gravina. Built structures, elegant and articulated alternate with underground labyrinths and cavernous meanders, creating a unique landscape of great effect. The overlapping of different phases of urban transformations on the original rough morphology, the refined dialogue between rocks and architecture, canyons and bell towers, has created over the centuries an urban scenario of incomparable beauty and quality. Declared in 1993 by UNESCO World Heritage Site, they offer superbly to those who visit them with a unique scenery that is an exceptional reminder of the past.
Departure.