Guardia Perticara

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Guardia Perticara

Total population

758

Elevation750 m

Land area53.68 km²

Coordinates40.36°, 16.10°

Demographic figures from ISTAT. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Guardia Perticara is a town and comune in the province of Potenza, in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata. It has 519 people. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Pietro Lacava

Italian politician (1835-1912)

C

Carmine Nigro

Italian politician

Mario Lettieri

Italian politician

Michele Lacava

Italian surgeon and historian (1840-1896)

Nicola Lapenta

Italian politician (1926-2018)

R

Rocco Sinisgalli

Italian art historian (born 1947)

G

Giuseppe De Rosa

Carmine Senise

Italian politician (1836-1918)

Carlo Curti

Italian musician and bandleader (1859–1922)

Tommaso Senise

Italian physician and politician (1848-1920)

P

Prospero Guidone

Italian politician (1864-1934)

G

Genuario Lacava

Italian librarian (1847-after 1922)

F

Francis B. Ierardi

American braille newspaper publisher

D

Donato Leone

R

Rocco Costello

New York’s last Italian bagpiper

A

Anna Maria Carbone

Italian librarian

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Basilicata

• Gorgoglione
  3.4 mi away · pop. 1,179
• Corleto Perticara
  3.5 mi away · pop. 3,018
• Armento
  4.1 mi away · pop. 800
• Cirigliano
  4.4 mi away · pop. 445
• Gallicchio
  5.4 mi away · pop. 1,018
• Missanello
  6.5 mi away · pop. 604
• Montemurro
  7.2 mi away · pop. 1,555
• Stigliano
  7.5 mi away · pop. 5,616
• Aliano
  7.8 mi away · pop. 1,009
• San Martino d'Agri
  8.7 mi away · pop. 969
• Spinoso
  9.4 mi away · pop. 1,778
• Accettura
  9.5 mi away · pop. 2,436

Browse all places in Basilicata →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Guardia Perticara

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Wasp Spider

Argiope bruennichi

Seen 2026-09-08

European Toad

Bufo bufo

Seen 2026-09-08

Brown Knapweed

Centaurea jacea

Seen 2026-09-07

Great Banded Grayling

Brintesia circe

Seen 2026-09-07

Italian Wall Lizard

Podarcis siculus

Seen 2026-08-18

pomegranate

Punica granatum

Seen 2026-08-18

Olive

Olea europaea

Seen 2026-08-18

Sweet Chestnut

Castanea sativa

Seen 2026-08-18

Knot Grass Moth

Acronicta rumicis

Seen 2026-08-03

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers