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Getting There & Away
BUS
The bus station is north of Piazza Matteotti, near the train station.
Grassani ( 0835 72 14 43; www.grassani.it ) Serves Potenza (€5.50, 1½ hours, four daily).
Buy tickets on the bus.
Marino ( www.marinobus.it ) Runs two services daily to Naples (€12, four hours).
Marozzi ( 06 225 21 47; www.marozzivt.it ) Runs three daily buses to Rome (€34, 6½ hours).
A joint SITA and Marozzi service leaves daily for Siena, Florence and Pisa, via Potenza.
Advance booking is essential.
Pugliairbus ( 080 580 03 58; http://pugliairbus.aeroportidipuglia.it ) Operates a service to Bari air-
port (€5, 1¼ hours, four daily).
SITA ( 0835 38 50 07; www.sitabus.it ) Goes to Taranto (€5.50, two hours, six daily) and
Metaponto (€2.90, one hour, up to five daily) and many small towns in the province. Buy
tickets from newspaper kiosks on Piazza Matteotti.
TRAIN
Ferrovie Appulo-Lucane (FAL; 0835 33 28 61; http://ferrovieappulolucane.it ) runs regular trains
(€4.50, 1½ hours, 12 daily) and buses (€4.50, 1½ hours, six daily) to Bari. For Potenza,
take a FAL bus to Ferrandina and connect with a Trenitalia train, or head to Altamura to
link up with FAL's Bari-Potenza run.
TOP OF CHAPTER
Potenza
POP 68,600 / ELEV 819M
Basilicata's regional capital, Potenza, has been ravaged by earthquakes (the last in 1980)
and as the highest town in the land, it broils in summer and shivers in winter. You may
find yourself passing through as it's a major transport hub.
The centre straddles east to west across a high ridge. To the south lie the main Trenitalia
and Ferrovie Appulo-Lucane train stations, connected to the centre by buses 1 and 10.
Potenza's few sights are in the old centre, at the top of the hill. To get there, take the el-
evators from Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II. The ecclesiastical highlight is the cathedral ,
 
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