Matera (Italy) - "Sasso Caveoso" (UNESCO heritage)

I Sassi di Matera sono due quartieri di Matera, Sasso Caveoso e Sasso Barisano, formati da edifici e architetture rupestri scavati nella roccia della Murgia materana e abitati fin dalla preistoria. Insieme al rione Civita (costruito sullo sperone che separa i due Sassi), costituiscono il centro storico della città di Matera. Nel 1993 sono stati dichiarati patrimonio dell'umanità UNESCO.

Matera has gained international fame for its ancient town, the "Sassi di Matera". The Sassi originated in a prehistoric troglodyte settlement, and these dwellings are thought to be among the first ever human settlements in what is now Italy. The Sassi are habitations dug into the calcareous rock itself, which is characteristic of Basilicata and Apulia. Many of them are really little more than small caverns, and in some parts of the Sassi a street lies on top of another group of dwellings. The ancient town grew up on one slope of the rocky ravine created by a river that is now a small stream, and this ravine is known locally as "la Gravina". In the 1950s, as part of a policy to clear the extreme poverty of the Sassi, the government of Italy used force to relocate most of the population of the Sassi to new public housing in the developing modern city.

Until the late 1980s the Sassi was still considered an area of poverty, since its dwellings were, and in most cases still are, uninhabitable and dangerous. The present local administration, however, has become more tourism-orientated, and it has promoted the regeneration of the Sassi as a picturesque tourist attraction with the aid of the Italian government, UNESCO, and Hollywood. Today there are many thriving businesses, pubs and hotels there, and the city is amongst the fastest growing in southern Italy.
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Taken in: Italy / Basilicate / Matera / Matera (show map)

Taken on: January 6, 2023

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