Venosa

Venosa, in the province of Potenza, was founded as the Roman colony of Venusia in 291 BC and grew into an important stop on the Via Appia. It is best known as the birthplace of the Roman poet Horace, born there in 65 BC. The town also preserves one of Italy's most significant Jewish heritage sites: catacombs dating from the 4th–6th centuries CE, alongside a large unfinished medieval church complex — the "Incompiuta" — built in the 11th–12th centuries partly from reused material, including slabs from an earlier Jewish cemetery. The adjoining older church, expanded under Lombard and Norman rule, holds the tomb of the Norman leader Robert Guiscard along with several of his relatives. The town is also a hub of the Aglianico del Vulture wine-growing area.