{"id":230913,"date":"2023-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/the-flight-of-the-angel-the-alternative-way-to-explore-the-lucanian-dolomites-in-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T10:35:11","slug":"the-flight-of-the-angel-the-alternative-way-to-explore-the-lucanian-dolomites-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/curiosities\/the-flight-of-the-angel-the-alternative-way-to-explore-the-lucanian-dolomites-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flight of the Angel: the alternative way to explore the Lucanian Dolomites in flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the heart of the\u00a0Basilicata<\/strong> there\u2019\u00e8 a steel cable between 1415 and 1452 meters long suspended between two peaks, which connects the villages of Castelmezzano\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>and\u00a0Pietrapertosa<\/a><\/strong>: two towns, two histories, two origins and two traditions, but both so beautiful that they are part of the\u00a0Club “I borghi pi\u00f9 belli d\u2019Italia”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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You can\u00f2 decide whether to start from Castelmezzano or Pietrapertosa, but in both cases the bases of launching are reached along a long and fascinating uphill route. Along the way you can meet tourists and fans from all over Italy, but also from different parts of the world, who have come to Basilicata to visit the treasures of Southern Italy and experience the thrill of flying.<\/p>\n

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If for the most fearful people the jump into the void seems impossible, the special steel harness will give you the right security to let you go in a fantastic experience and fly with the utmost tranquility, enjoying the extraordinary panorama of the Lucanian Dolomites. You can make\u00a0single flights and in pairs<\/strong>, to share a magical moment with a special person. In addition, you can fly with a\u00a0camera on your helmet<\/strong>, to take home an exclusive video that tells of the thrill of cutting through the air at a maximum speed of 120 km \/ h and a maximum drop of 130 meters over the valley.<\/p>\n

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\u00c8 it is advisable to make the round trip in the day, so you can also visit both villages and maybe enjoy a good lunch of local products, such as the\u00a0peperoni cruschi<\/strong>, peppers dried in the sun and fried in hot oil typical of Lucanian cuisine, so crispy that in eating them do \u201ccrunch\u201d.<\/p>\n

If, on the other hand, you are thinking of staying a little longer, you can spend a weekend in close contact with nature, passing through the\u00a0P<\/strong>Nepalese Bridge\u00a0hanging over the\u00a0 Caperrino Stream<\/em>, a tributary of the river\u00a0Bradano<\/em>, to the\u00a0literary route of the seven stones<\/strong>, crossing the via ferrata and concluding, in fact, with the exciting and adrenaline-filled flight.<\/p>\n

Visiting the official website\u00a0www.volodellangelo.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0you can find more information and discover the many related events organized in the two countries to plan an alternative and really suggestive vacation. In a few weeks, moreover, you will be able to soar in the air with\u00a0balloons<\/strong>\u00a0to admire the spectacle of the\u00a0rocky summits<\/strong>\u00a0with the most imaginative names: the Owl’s Beak, the\u2019Golden Eagle, the Great Mother, the\u2019Anvil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fly over the Lucanian Dolomites with the Flight of the Angel, an exciting adventure between Castelmezzano and Pietrapertosa to discover breathtaking landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":136795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-blog-pro.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1547],"tags":[],"village-conntection":[50932],"class_list":["post-230913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosities","village-conntection-pietrapertosa-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230913"},{"taxonomy":"village-conntection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-borghi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/village-conntection?post=230913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}