Just a few kilometers from Matera along the Appian Way in one of the ravines that furrow the Murgia plateau you will discover one of the most enchanting places in Southern Italy – the Crypt-Chapel…
It is a place with a wealth of history where you will find impressive remains of Ancient Greek Civilization in Southern Italy. The city, founded in the mid- 7thC B.C. by Greeks coming from Achaea,…
In the town centre is a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary – Santa Maria Maggiore – where you can admire frescoes and sculptures worthy of note. Among them stands out the beautiful polyptych by…
The Abbey goes back to the mid-11th C when Benedictine monks replaced religious communities of Greek origin in many towns. In the late Middle Ages, the abbey fell into neglect and had to be rebuilt…
Irsina is one of the oldest town in Basilicata, as attested by numerous archaeological remains from Ancient Greek and Roman times. The Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption, was built in the 13th…
Situated in the Sasso Barisano, the Church of San Pietro Barisano is one of the biggest rock-hewn churches of Matera.
Madonna delle Virtù and San Nicola dei Greci form is one of the most complex examples of rock-hewn architecture – two rock-hewn chapels placed one on the top of the other and also a monastery,…
Partly built and partly cut out of a rock rising above the Sasso Caveoso, this chapel dedicated to the Holy Virgin (Madonna dell’Idris) may be traced back to the 14th -15thC.It carried out its function…
The Church of Santa Lucia alle Malve was built in the 9thC and accommodated the first nuns of the Benedictine order that up to the last century dominated the religious life of Matera, thus mingling…
