Museo dei culti arborei

Arboreal cults that developed in antiquity are few traces remain, marriage rites linked to the rural world and predominantly animist. The Museum of cults arboreal Accettura try to reconstruct the history and types of arboreal cults of Lucania. Among the museums ethno-anthropological museum Accettura is perhaps unique in Europe, and to make it even more valuable work of this museum is the fact that cults are arboreal "typical of very few other places in the Mediterranean." Among the places that celebrate Mays and cults are arboreal in Basilicata Accettura, Oliveto Lucano, Pietrapertosa and Castelmezzano, also in the area of ​​the Pollino massif straddling Basilicata and Calabria are Rotonda, Viggianello, Terranova di Pollino, Alessandria del Carretto Castelsaraceno, and finally in the rest of Italy we have other examples in Ponte Nossa, Fontanella Grazioli, Pastena, Vetralla, Castel Giorgio, Bayard, Baiano, Terrasini.
The museum is located inside the Natural Park of Gallipoli in Law - Lucanian Dolomites and also performs the activities of the visitor center.
Created several years ago, the structure was inaugurated in 2005 by Mayor Vincent Amoia, and the heritage of the professor and researcher Giovanni Battista Bronzini and anthropologist Fernando Mirizzi.
The Museum also has a library with books on cults arboreal in Italy and in Europe and a video library with movies on the holidays of May.

[Source: Wikipedia]