10:30 a.m.: We arrive in what we will soon understand to be "new" Matera—the part of the city erected after the Italian ...

Matera ligt in de zuidelijke regio Basilicata. De Sassi van Matera en het park met rotskerken laat traditionele menselijke bewoning en landgebruik zien, het bewijs van de ontwikkeling van een cultuur ...

but behind the house-like facades are simple caves, inhabited since Paleolithic times. Shame to fame The sassi of Matera tell a tale of poverty, hardship and struggle, best immortalised in Carlo ...

Photo: Sandy Thurmond These rock-cut dwellings are known simply as Sassi, ‘Stones’, but that hardly tells the full tale. The Sassi of Matera housed a prehistoric ... to one side, a simple kitchen with ...

In the early 1950s, the Italian government began relocating some 30,000 people out of their troglodyte dwellings, or sassi, to a new town above. Today, Matera is a small, lively city with a ...

The new cave restaurants in the Sassi offer modern takes on Matera’s (now fashionably simple) peasant cuisine: plump orecchiette, ear-shaped pasta, tossed with broccoli rabe, chili and ...

Sextantio Le Grotte della Civita is an 18-room albergo diffuso ("scattered hotel") built in rock-hewn dwellings from the Paleolithic cave complexes of Matera, Italy, known as the Sassi.