Potenza
Understand
Get in
Potenza is served by Potenza Centrale Railway station (formerly Potenza Inferiore), with intercity service from Rome, Naples, Salerno, and Bari. There is also regional train service to nearby towns.
Bus service is available from Rome Tiburtina bus station daily.
Get around
There are a series of escalators "Scale Mobile" which bring you to the top of the old town from the train station at the bottom.
Note: There are extremely few street signs in Potenza and locals seem completely incapable of reading a map. If you do not know where you are going, I would advise that you bring your own map and navigate via landmarks, instead of street names.
See
Stadio Alfredo Viviani - The local soccer stadium. The team won the championship of "serie D" on 29th April 2018
Old town - The old town is located at the top of the town and features one main street for a "passigiata" in the evenings.
Do
Buy
Eat
Food is extremely hard to come by on Sundays. There is a pizza place located next to Stadio Alfredo Viviani which is open on Sundays, however, where pizzas are cheap (4 euro).
In the old town, in the central piazza, there is a restaurant/pub that opens at 19.30 daily.
While making your "passigiata" on the main street of the old town, you will pass a couple of gelaterias.
Drink
Sleep
B&B Al Convento - Looked like the only adequate accommodation in the town (40-60 EUR/nt)
You can also AirBNB, though from personal experience, that was a terrible idea.