Venosa

Horace was born in 65 BC in Roman Venusia, a colony on the Via Appia, and the town still points out his supposed house. Later it held a large Jewish community with its own catacombs, and the composer prince Carlo Gesualdo made its 1470 castle a residence. That square castle with round corner towers now houses the national archaeological museum.

Highlights

• The Aragonese castle of Pirro del Balzo, home to the archaeological museum
• The abbey church of the Santissima Trinità
• The Jewish catacombs, in use between the 4th and 6th centuries
• Aglianico del Vulture, the red wine of the surrounding vineyards
• Notarchirico, a Palaeolithic site where an ancient human femur was found

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.