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

UNESCO named Matera a World Heritage Site in 1993, and then came the alberghi diffusi – hotels made of rehabbed dwellings scattered throughout the city. Ancient cave homes were cleaned ...

Take in the mesmerizing landscapes of Basilicata with this captivating drone footage. Fly over the ancient city of Matera, the rugged peaks of the Lucanian Apennines, and the serene coastline of ...

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 ...

Matera is one of two European Capitals of Culture in 2019­ – Plovdiv in Bulgaria is the other. Yet, even 15 years ago, the idea that this town in Basilicata, in Italy’s deep south, would ...

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, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, has been chosen the European Capital of Culture in 2019. Festivals and exhibitions will be going on throughout the year.

UNESCO World Heritage CentreBrief synthesis Located in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, The Sassi and the Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera comprises a complex of houses, churches, ...

Nor is Matera without its rivals for the title of New Jerusalem. Ouarzazate, in Morocco, is the warm stone citadel of The Last Temptation of Christ, Kingdom of Heaven and Babel.