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Taken on 19/04/2022.⁣

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Matera is a city of pale gold limestone, just over the border from Puglia in Basilicata.⁣

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It has more layers than a sfogliatella pastry: its two cave districts, Sasso Barisano and Sasso Caveoso, are composed of individual dwellings carved into fossil-stuffed strata and stacked on top of each other like cells in a haphazardly constructed beehive.⁣

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They were inhabited from prehistory until the 1950s, when — overcrowded, poverty-stricken and disease-ridden — they were evacuated by the state.⁣

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Dubbed ‘the shame of Italy,’ Matera remained largely abandoned for decades—until in recent years.⁣

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The best way to appreciate the city’s labyrinthine layout is on foot. Wandering the ‘Sassi’, visitors shouldn’t be surprised to find themselves standing on a 9th-century graveyard, across from an impeccable Baroque palazzo and above an 11th-century church-turned-family home, where 700-year-old frescoes still color the calcareous walls.⁣

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Impactful, to say the least!⁣

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𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:⁣

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🚆 Matera is reachable by train via Bari thanks to a service provided by ‘Ferrovie Appulo Lucane’.⁣

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