Churches in Matera
- Details
- Category: Churches
In Matera church building can be read as a sequence. First people cut into the rock, then they built in front of it, finally they built over it. Many churches in the upper town stand on an older rock chamber you cannot see from outside – and sometimes only notice inside on second glance.
- Details
- Category: Churches
One of the oldest masonry churches in the city – and an early building outside the walls of its day, which was unusual at the time.
- Details
- Category: Churches
A baroque façade over a rock church: at hardly any other building can Matera’s way of building be read so clearly in cross-section.
- Details
- Category: Churches
A Romanesque façade with a rose window, right on the main square – one of the churches you pass in Matera whether you mean to or not.
- Details
- Category: Churches
Skulls on the doorway, skeletons on the wooden door: the most unusual façade in the city – and by no means meant as a shock effect.
- Details
- Category: Churches
The cathedral stands on the Civita, the rock spur between the two Sassi – the highest and oldest point of the city. Its bell tower is visible from almost everywhere and the most reliable means of orientation.
