Sassi di Matera
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From outside the Sassi look like a single slope. Those who lived there saw it differently: the district was divided into rioni, small units with their own name, their own church and their own courtyard. Those boundaries appear on no map today – the names, however, have held on.
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The rock spur between the two Sassi is the oldest settlement core of Matera – and the only point from which you can look into both districts at once.
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The Sassi are not a district like any other: they are cut into the limestone. Cave dwellings, cisterns, staircases and churches form a fabric that grew over millennia – and where thousands of people were still living until seventy years ago. Today they are on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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The southern of the two Sassi lies above the gorge like an amphitheatre. Here the caves sit most openly in the slope – and here you find the images of Matera you already have in your head.
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The northern Sasso looks more urban: stone façades, archways and narrow lanes. What appears to be a grown old town is, here too, largely rock – just better dressed.
