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"In the Apulia's heart, wrapped up in olives 

trees and secular woods opens a coffer of 

millenium old beauties. A territory where every 

stone or every painting, every tree has to tell 

you an ancient history of passion, simplicity 

and of will to live."

Town of Mottola, Councillorship of Tourism

In Apulia we can find an open sky museum that 

never ceases to amaze every one. "Walking 

along country paths among ancient farmhouses 

trullos, cisterns, rupestrian villages, "diving" 

into the intense scent of the rosemary, thume, 

oregano, breathtaking views appear wherein 

traveller's gaze loses itself looking into infinity."

Town of Mottola. Councillorship of Tourism

The rupestrian churches allow to undertand the 

great significance of the cultural and religious 

role that Apulia has played since Middle Ages as 

"bridge/ crossroad" between East and West. 

This "Caves Civilization" conjoint in a pacific 

way and without interruption the worship of 

Greek Saints with Latin Church Saints.

St Nicholas was considered to be the great 

Wonderworker which everyone can ask for help 

and pray to in some difficult times of his life

In the St. Nicholas'church called "the Sistine 

Chapel of the rupestrian civilization" for its 

exceptional state of preservation, is even more 

clear legacy of this still vital oriental tradition in 

a cultural and religious setting that already or 

was becoming Latin