What remained hidden Basilicata
What remained hidden Basilicata
My trip took me straight to the depths of the Italian south. Had not established a routine in the south, but one very similar to the Bermuda Triangle, where everything is normal, everything was not expected this. There he was surrounded by a certain Lucanian peace, a private place of human beings, deprived of knowing, but do not foresee this place is the master of the secrets, but they were there, caught in the rocks, even in the churches plastered and painted decorations on the cave walls-I did not know that this land was empty festering deep in its foundations. Somewhere in time, this private world was vibrant as a full moon, whose existence has been absent from the surface.
I had found my way into the land of Lucania.
I had arrived after a
After a short trip from Rome (about 2 hours and 45 minutes, although traffic was minimal), it has been all the way from the land of wonders. Our program was developed over two days - the knowledge of travelers from all over Italy will return home on vacation during this time, so we planned on racing back to Rome in order to miss the jam. I was traveling with a native of Lucan, a man related to the history of Acerenza, whose building was located in the square dedicated to his name; Glinni Plaza.
We were now in a province of Potenza. I was not accustomed to seeing the panoramic view without homes, without moving and full of freshly cut wheat fields.
We climbed up, up the scenario extenuated also enriched the city Vaglio. We addressed this cultural picturesque farm "La Dimora dei Cavalieri" (located at the top of the mountain) and possessed about 500 goats and sheep and some beautiful stone buildings in an organic restaurant and inn. Everything was handmade, of liquors, jams, ricotta, and Scones. It is an ancient village surrounded by a forest of oak. Breed animals and grow wheat, which explains why this region of breads and pastries are exceptional. They took me to a small house diagonally from the restaurant that had four to five rooms with odd names such as Aurora and Noto. The sound of wind called the slightest noise, here, the sky was prevailing.
It was my first taste of fried peppers Lucanian. In August and September of residents, windows and doors are decorated with hanging red pepper pods drying in the air. Adorned with the plates after they have been fried for a few minutes if a smidgeon fried too long, they are ruined. We ate at the side a specialty potato — fantastic. The next morning was bright and peaceful, and headed for the day around 10 am
We set out to explore the area Vaglio, has just become explorers. He was accompanied by some local experts Lucanian a few museums, and I was introduced to the excavation of the treasures Lucanian people (who live in this neck of the woods about 500 BC).
Helmets, spears and dolls are very well organized, but many of the devices were placed behind glass cubicles. Influenced Greek vases and jewelry-hung or fixed and were consequently recreated a scene house was open for everyone to absorb and assimilate. These treasures were excavated from well-preserved 2500 years, I figured that is true! The only issue I am more, this was the discovery of cracked brown vase. It is used in the celebration of dead children, but it was their coffin so to speak, and who were buried there.
Like the other walked around, I remained absorbed in my imagination, there is varied and the recreation of scenes of what life was like when the Lucanian were flesh and blood. I was fascinated by their possessions ingenious.
Outside the heat was stifling. Each creature that walked wiggled or was affected by climate. This time it was a coincidence, but said it was hot and dry in summer about 30 years.
We continue and visit the historic towns where we believe that the Templars had once lived or were present. We looked down at each corner and stopped to look around 90%; family crest carvings, sculptures of saints, hanging peppers, window boxes, and especially the microscopic alleys. It is difficult to maneuver through them, even if not in a hurry. One of the residents told me that the rides were so strong to impedit Medieval armies come so easily. It was easier for them bonk on the head, whether through one by one. The time used family crests are hard to read and consume too much power to make the symbols or the name of the family.
They explained that after almost every city in medieval times was walled up, and had placed two main entrances of each opposite end of the village.
After lunch we traveled to visit a ghost town "of the old village of Serra di Vaglio" which was a hike up a hill in the mountains Lucanian an Archaeological Park naturalist. We went on foot beyond the last mora fields and springs, eat and drink as we did. We raced back in time to the 6th century BC
This ancient town was once fortified by the square huge boulders which created a wall of protection for his kingdom and is being reassembled and recreated, as they once existed.
Here, the walls and foundations of old houses that were resting in the sun, undisturbed by human life.
Many songs of this town the population was lost, so it is absurd and annoying for anyone to reconstruct a history, but few things that remain, an inscription on a stone, the bones of boys and men still intact tombs , cooked and triangular clays that were used for building the looms to make clothes. A house Lucanian had replicated to the true meaning of these old houses and how people once lived. Inside are the fresh air and the walls made of a mixture of straw "Paglia" and cement, which relieves the heat of the burning Sunday.
The next day was spent traveling from one city to another, they were all very close.
We visited the northwestern town of Melfi Acerenza. This is the home of one of the most impressive caves discovered so far, the crypt of Santa Margarita.
Miguel Ángel Vite The mayor explained that this cave was used by monks and once by farmers to keep pigs away. Out of poverty and despair, a soul who was not interested in the old frescoes on the walls. These frescoes could have reinforced the truth about his own history of the city, including history itself. Many stories of the saints, which reveals the tragic end of his life. Fresh and some noted the presence of the Knights Templar, through the symbols, signatures and styles. I understand the differences that were related to life, and some help, but could not think, that may have been much closer to the truth then we are. One shows three figures dressed in their fine clothes hunting together (in the fresco) by two dancing skeletons. Life and death are combined, not feared.
There were also obvious, with each person painted on the walls are crumbling blond or red-headed, not a brown one. It was not just hair, but the facial features that seemed out of place. They were not a people of southern Mediterranean origin, and their faces were long and pointed, however, were a part of its territory, which were certainly a people of northern Europe — Norman?
A short step to the church of San Biagio reflects a continuing military presence Templar. The strange part was that both these places are like, which have symbols that came from left field as if thrown on a whim. Church of San Biagio was strange in that way, not only was masked up (like many others) - (as the ancient symbols and expressions hidden in caves). Fresh covered behind false walls and floors cheap tasteless covered by the original church of San Biagio. Perhaps never intended to have someone build a puzzle of parts, and somehow think it might have been too ignorant at the time.
San Biagio's exposure now has holes in its yellow plaster cheap, and what is behind them? I saw the vague image color family, then hit me, the colors, style, time-was the same as the others we saw in Melfi. There was an entire wall is placed on a glass clear that a party is exposed — someone had torn a hole in it. I wondered why were hidden rooms and other sections of this church. The original story is three feet below the current one. And what is even Odder is the sign on the front of the church that the church was built in the 17th century. A look back into the cool hidden behind plaster, could not foresee that being built in the 17th century. The frescoes were created from the 12th or 13th century. I can not understand why she had felt such a claim and that the error in the date, an error of four or five centuries! It is clear that they have investigated, I saw the holes in the floor and walls. Therefore, the hidden parts of the churches showed a history much older, so why not change the date in the? The best sights of this church are the two altars that face identical. This is not acceptable to Christian standards as far as I know, however, was left in this "erosion" of the State. It may have been divided in a while, because I saw big stones from wall to wall in the ground forming a large line. This could have indicated the presence of an old structure like a wall, which could have a separate altars. It is strange that even had to lower, which means that now the altars stand face to face.
We traveled back to investigate Acerenza for its cathedral, which has almost become famous (if only we believe that the residents).
This seemed like a castle cathedral dominates the town, or better, a church and castle, with two functions. It could have been a fortress for a church in the appearance, used for protection, or to store valuables. Or it could have been used as a church for spiritual reasons and protection, or as a cover to be a castle. At this point many angels sitting on our shoulder tells us different things. There is a hallway in full at point C, which wraps behind the altar, a passage about 15 feet wide and 30 feet from a roof.
It is here in this hall, where he was introduced to San Canion or rather, his "Shepard of the staff." Beneath his statue set up a stone coffin with a small window, you can look and see partially through the tip of a cane. I saw the bottom half of the wooden stick, the color of a light-stained bamboo. The young Italian woman of Norman descent told me that this club moved on its own. Moved? It rolled back and forth by itself, approach the window enough to even touch it, and then back again. Some people had seen that happen, while other witnesses to change their location when they returned about five minutes later. Not a soul was present when it happened, and could not have been moved by a stranger - was glassed in.
If it were not for the organized private trip, I have sat there until I saw this same stick move.
The same aisle C symmetrically wrapped around a tomb in the crypt below. It is directly on the other, only smaller in size. This miniature C corridor around that tomb of the tunnels, but now is a solid floor. It has been walled in by someone in the 16th century. The thought occurred that there may be desperately needed someone to hide something of value here, or there was something hidden in a time of the invasion, but never reopened since.
There was no concealment of their strange pagan sculptures in the cathedral, many of which were carved in the bottom half of the columns of the crypt. To this day no has noticed a person, not challenged this opposition to the Catholic faith. They still have the masses on a regular basis, these believers have not yet realized that thanks to God above and below pagan creatures lurk in the dark rocks. A skull and bones represented one of these people have told me this was normal, and the Catholic Church used to represent death, but this is the only oddity that I have been able to justify.
When we got to the grotto of Santa Margarita Oppido of our trip, I realized that this cave was a cave-church. "
We just get into one particular church. Similar fresh waited behind bars still intact on the cold walls. They started back to us, as we marveled at their age. The unusual cut short our visit to one, millions of mosquitoes using the walls as a cool refuge from the scorching August heat. Fresh literally become the black dots and as we were watching and shooing away, only to find our noses plunged critters with black, only then, we have made our minds to run away! Meanwhile, went out to look at the cave while attached Raffaello fought the mosquito groups that are fighting hard to block the doors. I had this burning desire to fall on my knees and start digging in the ground with my bare hands, just wanted to dig and dig, my curiosity was killing me. One could further unravel the truth and discover what was underneath the first floor of the regime of the structure. I stood on the creek of two circular rounded, it was as if the roof had two huge eyes. There was an entry hole in the ground to the right, and certainly now with stairs, this meant there are other levels below the ground. These places that are desperately needed excavated.
The entire area proposed strategies Potenza perfect escape routes, forts, homes and underground passages, yearning to be tampered with. I would love to expose them to the beginning of a wonderful discovery.
Tracks of a mysterious people came to the wind, the supply of these - for free. The knowledge era house in these areas, and they were trying to detect it. One thing is for sure, but a secret from people. Tracks are available as they pass through the gates, some gates around it had carvings of saints that we find inside these mysterious caves. We descend through narrow alleys, and were in a mysterious track, so it was - a piece of repose was under my foot. I bent to pick up a triangular shape, which was a thick layer of clay, painted on one side, a plate of a medieval era, no longer of use. But it sat there in a clear point of view, no hassles in this place where nobody else crosses.
The story we are working to piece together a mish-mash combination of small towns within the province of Potenza in the region of Lucania, Basilicata, and each began to take on a similarity with another. We Trespass through a city to another, and snuck her and felt at once unique and individual, each one is different, but confessed his correlations. The cities could be described as strangenesses of taste, symbols, and hidden caves decorated Baring cousin from the same period of time.
The Lucanian people to maintain an indifference to these 900 years old — fresh pigment that gives the rundown caverns. Ignorance, farmers made use of housing for pigs and cattle, burning heat of fire within them, and ruin a fundamental test of the medieval village of existence over the centuries 12 and 13.
Even during my trip in Lucania, the priests made jokes about Templar talk, "No, there was never any Templarios here (chuckling) Acerenza perhaps crossed the road once."
"Ah, come on, this guy knows everything there is to know about the history of Acerenza (priest looking guy on your right), said that he had never been trodden by a Templar boot.
This was what I had said I sat next to a priest in this bank, which faces the Cathedral Acerenza - whose wall was cut with a Templar cross. Whether we do know something about the history of the Temple in Acerenza and are reluctant to talk about it, or are clever as their ancestors, who side-stepped masterfully facts and presented as "unimportant", or are simply blind to the obvious clues sitting right in front of them. For people who are known to happen in the news as gossip - strangely this issue has never gone from a joke. His works were honored, but is muted by the left and once again forgotten.
We walked, and began to click on the images in sequence. The caves were solitary point distance, position and style frescoes by the same hands, the same imagination (the period of time locked in the 12th century for the most part), they found strange statues around the place that somehow were probably connected. Outrightly pagan symbols were remarkable for the eyes that can "see" them.
This concludes my first trip to the territory Lucanian. I imagine that if I spent more time there, like a month or more, we might have more to decipher the "unexposed" waiting below. We hope one day to unite many of the matches - in addition to the oddities that have nothing in common whatsoever. We hope to tie together, and create a history of reliable, consistent and complete.
This trip was to gather useful information that can be recorded to help grow our history. The experience helped me to understand, and every time (so I hear) that presents something new. This time something new that was a baphomet. Set in a cemetery near the Serra di Vaglio baphomet San Bernardo is located (the city of the ancient village Lucanian) and, in my opinion, and Rafael of the other (the strangest conclusions) was the figure of a Martian is in the Castle of Melfi museum. He was a figure whose image we had to take over the battle, and difficult to persuade employees. A Martian Lucanian was behind glass. The Martian we saw was developed for over 2500 years, how is this possible? Maybe Martians are relatively new, after all. Mystery after mystery, Basilicata never let their visitors down, but always has another story to share. Probably there will always be more to tell.
Jjarvis © 2007
