Rock Churches in Matera
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The largest rock church in the city – and the only one where you can still see the old draining niches. From outside you would not guess it.
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The church inside the rock cone, linked by a passage to Santa Maria de Idris – and holding the best-preserved paintings of the city’s rock churches.
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A complex of rock churches in the Sasso Barisano, above the gorge – and today one of the city’s most unusual exhibition spaces.
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Directly above Madonna delle Virtù, with Byzantine-influenced paintings – and a name that points to a long-forgotten tradition.
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Four rock churches around a shared courtyard – later a wine cellar, today open again. A complex that shows how flexibly consecrated spaces were treated.
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A rock church out in the Murgia park, known for its images of the Virgin – and for an art theft that made headlines in Italy.
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The “Sistine Chapel of the rock churches” lies a few kilometres outside the city – and holds the oldest and most important wall paintings in the region.
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More than a hundred churches around Matera are cut into the rock. Many are plain caves, some carry Byzantine-influenced frescoes a thousand years old. They are the second reason – alongside the Sassi themselves – why this landscape is World Heritage.
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The church sits inside the Monterrone crag in the middle of the Sasso Caveoso. From below you mostly see the rock – the church is inside it, and only the white façade gives it away.
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One of the few churches in Matera that stands free above the gorge instead of sitting inside the rock – and therefore one of the city’s most distinctive points.
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The first settlement of Benedictine nuns in Matera – and one of the rock churches with the most striking frescoes. Later, people lived in the same rooms.
