Unesco in Matera

Discover 2 unesco in Matera.

Looking out onto la Civita, the city center, from an ancient grotto in Sassi di Matera.

Sassi di Matera

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Paintings on the walls

The Crypt of the Original Sin

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

Are we missing something unusual in Matera?