In Matera, we can observe how men have been able, over the centuries, to coexist with the landscape, indulging nature without distorting it.” ...

Matera’s obscurity ended in 1945, when the Italian artist and author Carlo Levi published his memoir Christ Stopped at Eboli, about his year of political exile in Basilicata under the Fascists.

Matera’s story is tear-inducingly miraculous. As recently as the 50s it was branded “the shame of Italy”, after a writer called Carlo Levi was exiled by Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime ...

Matera, in southern Italy’s Basilicata region, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993; UNESCO described it as the “most outstanding, intact example of a troglodyte settlement in ...

Rocciaviva: a hub of restoration activity Part of the Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) movement, Rocciaviva is located near the hilltop town of Matera in southern Italy’s Basilicata ...

Matera, one of the most striking locations featured in the new 007 film No Time to Die, has transformed since its shockingly backward days in the mid-20th century.