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Here you’ll find crude and barren rocks with low-lying vegetation and scrub; deep and winding ravines that swallow-up those who venture into them; over 150 rock cliff churches that give testimony to the diffusion of religion in the countryside; numerous settlements dating back from the Palaeolithic (e.g the “Grotta dei Pipistrelli” or “Cave of Bats”)Diana Bellavista and the Neolithic eras, with village ruins and artefacts (like the ceramics of Diana Bellavista and Serra d’Alto); and finally all the impressions left by a civilization which had to cope with a land that was uncongenial to human survival: the ways in which the limestone rock was used shows the passage from novel and rupestrian ways to constructed structures such as the fortified farms.

The park covers an area of more than 8,000 hectares from the towns of Matera to Montescaglioso.