My first attempt to explore Matera, one of Italy’s most ancient towns, was an exercise in picturesque frustration. I drove around rocky cliffs and limestone grottos and never found the city center, ...

On my first morning in Matera, I was awoken by an earth-shattering chorus of fireworks. I had arrived, by accident, on the day of this ancient city’s most important religious festival, the Festa della ...

I first saw the cave wall in the Crypt of the Original Sin in my family province of Matera, in Southern Italy, in the Fall of 2014. The faces of the angels and Adam and Eve, painted in the 9th century ...

It’s a remarkable rags-to-riches story. Carved into a remote ravine in the Basilicata countryside, in the instep of Italy’s boot, Matera was once dubbed ‘the shame of Italy’ for its caves that housed ...

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The contract for the trains’ delivery was signed in collaboration with the Municipality of Matera and the Basilicata Region. Ferrovie Appulo Lucane general manager Stefano Di Bello said: “Two years ...