Comune di Nova Siri

In the Nova Siri countryside In Basilicata, a magical place that will make you want to stay. The calm, the sea on the horizon, the cicadas, the shadow of the trees, the warm wind that embraces you and accompanies you to sleep, a space and a time that every human being should enjoy to find tranquility that is necessary to listen to the other, themselves but above all essential to find balance and education, in short, a place to think.

Nova Siri (its ancient name was Bollita) is an Italian town of 6 824 inhabitants in the province of Matera in Basilicata. Located on the Ionian coast, it is divided into Nova Siri country, or center (in dialect u paìs), and Nova Siri Marina, or scalo (in dialect a staziòn). It borders the municipalities of: Rotondella (7 km), Rocca Imperiale (CS) (11 km), Nocara (CS) and Canna (CS) (13 km) and Valsinni (15 km). It is 75 km from Matera and 139 km from the regional capital Potenza. The sandy coast is rich in natural dunes, on which sea oats grow and thrive, together with other marine plants (asfodelus-asfodelo, Salsola kali-Salsola, Eryngium maritimum-calcatrèppola marina); both internal and maritime sandiness represents a notable detachment from the seabed and the gravelly coast of the nearby Rocca Imperiale, however this aspect brings the Lucanian coast closer to the Ionian coast to the coast of nearby Puglia. Another arboreal characteristic of the maritime area are the pine forests and eucalyptus groves, the latter planted in recent times (first half of the 20th century) not only to block the degradation of the beaches and desertification, but also to prevent the proliferation, in reclaimed areas, of malaria, using marsh mosquitoes as a means of contagion. These plants thrive because the eucalyptus trees, by absorbing the waste water, prevent it from stagnating, thus allowing the Mediterranean flora to resume developing (thanks to the help of both man and nature), preventing it from rotting due to the presence of too much water. Annual rosemary, oleander and numerous fruit-bearing plantations (especially tree plants of the genus prunus-peach, apricot, plum groves - but also citrus groves) thrive along the avenues and within the wild arboreal areas.