That loggia of the Brando Art Gallery and the trendy Porticciolo

The Port has become the trendiest place. One reaches it early in the morning to embark with the fishermen who are always generous to travellers who want to discover the charms of fishing at dawn. One returns at lunchtime to enjoy the dishes prepared at the Tre Nodi Restaurant or for an aperitif at the Clubbino. Instead, at sunset, it's cocktail hour at the tables of the Santi al Porto while listening to DJ music. In this walking tour of the seaside hamlet, one always comes across the Church of Maria Santissima del Portosalvo resembling a miniature, delicate in its narrow, vertical architecture, inside which are precious statues: the narrow streets of the port look like a net after fishing, entangled, overlapping one another. Children hold the ice cream cones that the creative Emilio Panzardi invents without ever getting a flavour wrong. In the historical centre of Maratea, which lies in the strip between Christ the Redeemer and the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Angelo Brando Art Gallery is worth discovering for the Palazzo De Lieto that houses it, located right on the top of a rock: it boasts an exciting panoramic loggia punctuated by columns and precisely the collection of paintings, imbued with tenderness and expressiveness, by Brando. Strolling along Via dell'Unità d'Italia, one also enters the jewel-like churches of the Immacolata and Annunziata, before devoting oneself to shopping with an eye to the fabrics of the historic Brando atelier.