Squares & Streets in Matera
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The Sassi have no streets in the ordinary sense. There are two contour lines per district – one along the upper edge, one above the gorge – and steps in between. Once you have understood that pattern you no longer really get lost, even if it feels that way at first.
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Above the Sassi lies the upper town: squares, palaces and churches from a time when Matera no longer built in caves. Only both levels together make the city.
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The central square of the upper town – and the place where most visits begin. If you want to get your bearings in Matera, you start here.
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A small, enclosed square between the upper and the old town – once a market, today music. Get lost in Matera and sooner or later you come out here.
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The square in front of the cathedral on the Civita – the highest and oldest point of the city, and the only one from which you see both Sassi at once.
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The museum street of the upper town: archaeology, the regional museum and, at the end, the terrace above the Sasso Caveoso – all within a few hundred metres.
