Matera is a 2019 European Capital of Culture. On this trip, you’ll see the vast collection of caves and houses carved into the hillsides of our New World Wonder, Sassi di Matera. You’ll also visit the ...

You may well have a sense of déjà-vu when you enter Matera, a place that seems at once both truly exotic, oddly familiar and a little eerie. Spread over a valley in Basilicata, the town is stark, ...

MATERA, Italy, May 1 (Reuters) - Italy is teeming with places that make you feel like you are on a movie set -- the Trevi Fountain in Rome, the Amalfi coast near Naples and Venice's lagoons come to ...

Matera, Italy, is more than a picturesque destination—it’s a living record of human resilience and adaptation. Carved into limestone cliffs, its cave dwellings have been continuously inhabited for ...

Today, it’s one of the most astonishing places in Italy – a city carved into a rugged hillside – but just a few years ago, Matera was branded a national disgrace. Many residents still remember when ...

Time should tick slowly in a city like Matera. Claimed as the third-oldest continually inhabited settlement in the world (after Aleppo and Jericho), the southern Italian city has been home to someone ...

Today, Matera is on the brink of becoming a bustling tourist destination for those wise enough to go off the beaten track and explore the many paths winding in and around the two sassi districts ...

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