Duration 3/4 hours. This itinerary can be covered on foot and may lead you to tackle some rather strenuous uphill stretches, though highly evocative. It will tell you about the churches of Pizzo, guardians of sacred art but also cultural landmarks of the entire Pizzo community.
An itinerary that tells the story of the castle, its most famous prisoner, King Joachim Murat of Naples, and its interior
Moving about two kilometers from Pizzo's historic center, heading directly down toward the beach, you come across the Church of Piedigrotta, one of Italy's most photographed marvels. This area, which remained completely uninhabited until the early 1900s, was once frequented exclusively by stonecutters who extracted rock blocks to be used as building material. The church is often improperly described as a grotto carved into tuff; in reality, from a geological standpoint, it is not tufaceous rock (since tuff is a volcanic rock), but rather a sedimentary rock—specifically, calcitic tuff or sedimentary stone.
Moving about two kilometers from the historic center of Pizzo, heading directly down toward the beach, you come across the Church of Piedigrotta, one of Italy's most photographed wonders. This area, which remained completely uninhabited until the early 1900s, was once frequented exclusively by stonecutters who extracted rock blocks to be used as building material. The church is often improperly described as a cave carved into tuff; in reality, from a geological standpoint, it is not tuffaceous rock (since tuff is a volcanic rock), but rather a sedimentary rock, specifically calcitic tufa or sedimentary stone.