Following a now well-established trend in major monotheistic religions, Catholicism in Italy is rapidly moving towards a configuration of the Church as a "minority practice." The presence of fewer and fewer believers and, consequently, the challenging maintenance of the current number of open churches seems to be a trend that is difficult to reverse. Inevitably, a change of this magnitude will also have repercussions on the territory and the landscape, not only limited to a material modification but even more in the ways places of worship are used and their aggregative role, even within urban contexts. However, considering this phenomenon of Germanization to be all-encompassing of the entire national territory could be misleading. In the southern regions of Italy, and especially in the Matera territories shown here, this process does not seem to manifest itself clearly but. In contrast, a reverse process seems to be underway. The high density of Catholic places of worship and their frequent attendance by large segments of the population has generated a kind of "religious bulimia" that influences the perception of the landscape in elements that are not purely religious. This aspect is evident in the images of the Eboli project presented here. In highlighting this characteristic, no superstructure has been applied; the Catholic religion is fully lived by the local population in every aspect, even in the most remote areas of the landscape, and this natural and not just formal practice influences the visual representation of the resulting territory. While the book "Christ Stopped at Eboli" by Carlo Levi mainly described the division between two coexisting yet vastly distant worlds, here the distinction is different. This highlights how, unlike other sectors of the country, the landscapes of Southern Italy are fully regulated by widespread religious practices, which indeed influence both the territory and social relationships, shaping the characteristics of what could be called a ‘religious landscape’.