centro storico, di crinale, concentrico, lineare, agricolo, Romagnano al Monte, Romagnano al Monte Vecchia (denominazione consuetudinaria), fundus Romanianus (denominazione storica), Romagnano (denominazione storica), Romagnano al Monte (denominazione storica, dopo Unità d'Italia)

At the summit of a steep ridge in inland Basilicata, the abandoned borgo of Romagnano al Monte, known locally as Romagnano al Monte Vecchia, sits entirely in municipal hands, a ghost town kept at a deliberate distance by its modern successor. The settlement’s origins reach back to the Roman era, when it was recorded as fundus Romanianus. Always small, it grew around a now-vanished castle, the classic ovoid plan coiling about this defensive core and the church of the Partita. The medieval street pattern, tightly constrained by the precipice to the east, pushed expansion westwards along the spine of the ridge, adapting to the slope with ramps, stepped lanes, and stairways that doubled as benches. The further west you walk, the later the architecture. The oldest quarter clusters near the church, dedicated to the Madonna del Parto. The building stock is poor, spontaneous, sometimes self-built: vernacular stonework, rough and unadorned, rising in terraces out of the rock.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.