Aliano

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Perched on a clay ridge, in the heart of the Lucanian Calanchi, a concentration of ravines, clay pinnacles and panoramas with wide horizons, Aliano was immortalised by the pen of Carlo Levi, who described it as Gagliano in "Christ Stopped at Eboli". The relationship between the writer and the village, where he lived in confinement and which he loved so much that he wanted to be buried in the village's small cemetery, is profound.

Inside the village, you can visit the Carlo Levi Art Gallery and the Carlo Levi Literary Park. The former preserves photographic and pictorial documents of the artist from the period of exile, while the latter carries out initiatives aimed at recovering and enhancing local identity, culture, history and traditions. The park is full of places, objects, and events that help us retrace the steps of his exile in the 1930s. In the village, it is possible to visit the restored house where he lived, attend open-air theatre performances, visit the permanent exhibition set up in the former town hall of the village, or visit the restored film set of the film "Christ Stopped at Eboli". Also worth visiting are the church of San Luigi Gonzaga, dating back to the 16th century, the Museum of Rural Civilisation, housed in an old oil mill where objects related to farming and handicraft activities and some characteristic "horned masks", typical of the Carnival period, are exhibited. The curious House of the Evil Eye, which takes the form of a human face to ward off spirits and negative influences.