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They stand on a bench calcarenitic about 150 meters from the Gravina torrent. The city has many other sites of cultural interest. The Cathedral, the Romanesque-Pugliese, dating from the thirteenth century. Internally renovated in the Baroque period, has interesting wooden sculptures and paintings by local artists, including of particular importance in the sixteenth-century stone manger Altobello Persio. Of particular interest are the other Romanesque churches in the historic center, including St John the Baptist and St. Dominic. Along the area of ​​the seventeenth century "Plan" are located imposing civil and religious buildings dating from the baroque period, including the churches of St. Francis of Assisi and St. Clare of Purgatory. Lanfranchi Palace, built as a seminary in 1600, was the secondary school where he taught Giovanni Pascoli. It now houses the Museum of Medieval and Modern Art of Basilicata and an important collection of paintings of the writer Carlo Levi. The National Museum "Domenico Ridola", created in 1911, contains numerous archaeological remains dating from the Paleolithic and Neolithic and numerous collections relating to the settlements of Magna Graecia on the Ionian coast. Among the buildings on the 'floor', and its numerous palaces Tramontano Castle, built in the sixteenth century at the behest of Count Giancarlo Tramontano, Aragonese style.