A journey through the five countries of the Gallipoli Cognato Piccole Dolomiti Lucane Regional Park: Accettura, Castelmezzano, Oliveto Lucano, Pietrapertosa, and Calciano.
It’s the green heart at the center of Basilicata, an ancient and unspoiled witness to the history of the people living in this land. Among these woods, popular tradition dictates the annual celebration of the May ritual, a wedding ceremony between a towering oak tree and a holly tree top, its bride. The Land of May is the firsthand account of a collective ritual that binds the entire community to its place in the sign of an ancient and powerful sentiment.