Underground Matera
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Cisterns, oil mills and cave churches: guided routes through what lies beneath the city – and what you would never guess from above.
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Beneath the main square lies a whole storey of cisterns, passages and remains of older buildings – discovered when the square was redesigned.
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No cisterns, no city. How Matera got its water for thousands of years – and why the same system that made settlement possible became a problem in the twentieth century.
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One room for everything: how people actually lived in the Sassi – until the inhabitants were resettled by law in the 1950s.
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Between the caves lie terraces, courtyards and small gardens – the open space of a city without streets. Think of the Sassi only as caves and you miss half of it.
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- Adresse: Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 75100 Matera
- Dauer des Besuchs: about 30 minutes
- Zugang: Mit Ticket
Beneath the central square of the upper town lies a water reservoir the size of a cathedral. The Palombaro Lungo was cut into the rock, supplied Matera with rainwater for generations and then fell so completely into oblivion that it was only found again during building work.
