Discover Matera, the cave city in Southern Italy.
Discover Matera, the cave city in Southern Italy.
Reading time: 10 min. Sasso Barisano at sunset. Matera is a city in the region of Basilicata, in Southern Italy, with great history and a bright future. Matera is uniquely built on a rocky outcrop, with cave dwellings carved into the mountainside forming the old town, the so-called Sassi district. Matera was considered “the shame of Italy” in the 1950s because of the extremely poor living…
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