The castle of Policoro was born in the year 1000, as a fortified farmhouse, and was modified and enlarged in the following centuries.
The Basilian monks were the initiators of the construction of the building erected as a fortified monastery and agricultural production centre. In 1791 the building, with the entire latifundium, was bought by Princess Maria Grimaldi Gerace Serra, who transformed it into a noble farmhouse and built the village around it. In 1893 the whole estate passed to Baron Berlingieri of Crotone.
In the 1950s, the intervention of the agrarian reform expropriated the lands of Baron Berlingieri, subdividing the property and entrusting it to families coming from all over Basilicata, but also from the neighbouring regions of Apulia and Calabria.
The building is located on a hill overlooking the plain below as far as the marina. On the left of the castle there is the eighteenth-century chapel with the adjoining rectory. Along the slope the "casalini" that constituted the single-family lodgings of the employees of the great feudal company.od
After a long period of abandonment, the Castle has returned to its ancient splendor through a careful restoration, offering to the many visitors a thematic path among the excavations of the ancient Heracleia, witnessed by the Archaeological Park.
