Cirigliano is a small town of the province of Matera encircled from a mountain crown that offers an interesting and meaningful horizon.

The first written testimony of the existence of the country laughed them to the 1060 from one bubble of the diocese of Tricarico.

It draws its etimologia from "Caerellius" because built up in the property of presumable Cerellio Roman centurione that distintosi in battle was donated it these lands. 

One says in fact, that Cirigliano was a country of obliged passage for who Eraclea had to o to Power or Tricarico.

Obliged stage in this passage was the bakery of Cirigliano and taverna of Acinello 650 the inhabited center is situated to m. slm and the altitude of the varied territory between the 500 and 1200 m. slm. 

The country is encircled from towers and walls this to confirmation that is be a matter of a medioevale village.

 In the center of the imposing country erge the ancient feudale castle with its evocative tower oval and the annexed nail head of Given pain in which the conserve between the other one incastonata mercy of the 600 on tempiato of decorated wood.

The Castle of property of the Coppola (acquired from these last ones for 13,000 ducati from the family Iannellis 1595) was acquired in post-medioevale age (1750) from the barons Ant, than of it they conserve still today the property.

beauty painted and frescoes is conserved in the church Mother. Between the church mother and the castle of the barons the graceful one can be admired and receiving historical center with its "grips", the rooms to bows and small you turn let alone antichi palaces between which the baronial palace, the Fanelli palace (former property Giuncale Family) puts into effect them center parochial house and of the house of rest for old, and memory is had thanks to the still visible ruderi of other nobiliari palaces of property of the RED families the GREEK and. There are on the territory of Common the rests of 3 flour mills to water: - the Saint flour mill Maria Vignola constructed in the year of charity 1848 from the Ant; - the flour mill Don Carmine; - the flour mill of classified Rupicelli only to the inhabitants of that Contrada. The country, from the castle to the palaces from the houses to the roads all is rigorously constructed in stone of Cirigliano to testimony of the ancient extraction peasant of people. 

The stone of Cirigliano, still today extracted from its hollow ones, constitutes one important resource, it is and it must be occasion of development from the local handicraft through its working and commercialization. Obvious examples of valorization of the stone are: the nail head of S. Lucia, the public square of the country recently restructured and a restaurant all reconstructed ones entire in local stone.

 To approximately two km. from the country between the green of the ulivi and the vineyards, the cove dedicated to the Madonna and dug can be admired in the cliff alive from a sorry brigante.

 The territory of Cirigliano mostly mounts is rich of forests of high stalk and sources. The source catalogued water "furr" to 1000 m. slm as oligominerale particularly it is indicated for the cure of the digesting apparatus. In the vicinities of the source water "furr" a shelter is found mounts and a restaurant of communal property. 

There is then to 1200m. slm the tourist village "Green Greenhouse" between the forest of lucane montepiano and the Dolomiti. More meaningful traditional manifestations for Cirigliano are: the silver carnival and tower.

 The carnival, of ancient cultural tradition (1200-1300), propiziatorio ritual between sacred and the profane one represents the seasons and the months of the year exalting for everyone of they the own cultivations and traditions.

 The silver tower more recent cultural manifestation annually dedicates to the prize "tower of distintosi silver" to a Lucano personage beyond the regional borders in several the fields of the social life.

 The ciriglianese population, from always given over to agriculture and the pastorizia, has recorded fine.da gli.inizi of ` the 900 a remarkable demographic decrease because been involved from the serious phenomenon of the emigration reducing the population resident around to the 500 units.

 Cirigliano is the ideal country for a period of vacation for who wishes to rest itself, to breathe pure air, drink source water and to taste the ciriglianesi culinarie specialties between which the famous ones "letratte". 

You come we wait for to you.

 The Mayor