In the Vulture’s territory, north from the Lucano Appennino, Forenza is placed in Bradano’s Valley that borders with Puglia and therefore presents some similarities with this region. Appart from that, in the IX century, when the longobardian principality of Salerno was born, Forenza belonged to Puglia’s region. The built-up area, a place situated over 800 meters above sea level, is settled over a beautiful hill: that is the reason of its wonderful view that includes the Pugliese Tavoliere far away to Gargano and the Vulture hill. The current town of Forenze is not the one that Livio, Diodoro, Siculo, Plinio and most of all Orazio referred to: “avrum pingue tenent humilis Ferenti”. So that’s why the city inherited just the name of the antic Roman Forentum, and not the place. The town, during the Logobard denomination was part of the Gastaldo de Acerenza under the Normanic denomination, among so many others Pagan families; while the Angionises trusted to the Caracciolos and then to the Asburgos, they gave it to the Dorian family, who has governed the Melfi State after the feudal fall. The urban distribution is characteristic of an acropolis, positioned over a plateau on the top of the hill, just like other urban centers of the valley. The first documents found testify the establishment of the town back on the year 1000. Now, just like other Lucan centers, the urban form has been dominated by the dialectic mixture of the Castel, placed on the center of the plateau (actual reina Margarita square), and the religious creation of Santa Maria de Longobardo church, actual asilo Infantile building in Santa Maria street. Along the centuries, the castel has been suffering deep transformations, loosing great part of its dominating mass effect, until it finally disappeared. Today, the urban landscape is dominated by San Nicola and Maria SS. Churches, which makes Forenza reflect its various construction dates to which corresponds also different morphological structures that are placed in circle around the plateau. The old town can be divided in three parts: the plateau that is the actual San Nicola street, which delimitates the first settings and goes back to the high-medieval period; then, the first part of the coast of the hill, down the plateau, to the west-south-east part, over which it extends the medieval city delimitated by a wall; and the middle coast with characteristics of the years 600 and 700, outside the wall. The urban distribution is made of streets and narrow and irregular ramps, little scale places. This reflects the characteristics of the medieval town, which shares elements of the country culture, elaborating construction solutions corresponding to a level of simple a basic existence. An unforgettable experience is getting lost in the little streets that suddenly become closed and some times, unexpectedly open to the town. Some of the rests of what had been the Angionine wall of the XIII century can be still found, included in different buildings such as Salita Calvario in via dell’Arco, vico Tre Santi, via Corso Umberto Streets.