Discover Matera, the Cave City in Southern Italy.

Reading time: 12 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 [...]