Aglianica Wine Festival, the party of the Aglianico is to Venous, in the month of September: among the feasts in Basilicata choose this to taste the wines lucani!
The red grape of the south that mostly stimulates debates and comparisons among the different zones where you/he/she is cultivated, it returns to be the heart of the Aglianica Wine Festival, that the XVI reaches edition and will develop him in the rooms of the Castle of the Leap of Venous (PZ), one of the most beautiful towns of the Basilicata.
This stupendous castle was built to want of Pirro of the Leap in 1470 around, because of the contrasts risen with Giovanni Anthony Orsini, his/her predecessor as Lord of Venous, very appreciated by the inhabitants for the way with which you/he/she had conducted the city.
Pirro became his/her successor after having married its his/her niece Maria Donata Orsini.